Outdated Wikipedia entries could soon be automatically updated by AI. AFP/ Lionel Buenaventure via AFP Relaxnews
On Wednesday, MIT News reported that scientists have created an automated text-generating tool powered by artificial intelligence that could update outdated sentences like a human. Instead of relying on volunteers to correct outdated information on Wikipedia, the reference site would soon use a text-generating system “that pinpoints and replaces specific information in relevant Wikipedia sentences, while keeping the language similar to how humans write and edit.”According to a paper by MIT researchers, the AI tool would still rely on humans to input information.
The system does this by comparing the information in the outdated sentence with the new text and then deleting contradictory facts. By modifying only certain parts of a sentence instead of the whole thing, the original style and grammar of the sentence could be retained.