{"id":144985,"date":"2022-08-27T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/meta-is-building-an-ai-to-fact-check-wikipedia-all-6-5-million-articles"},"modified":"2022-08-27T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T01:23:08","slug":"meta-is-building-an-ai-to-fact-check-wikipedia-all-6-5-million-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/meta-is-building-an-ai-to-fact-check-wikipedia-all-6-5-million-articles","title":{"rendered":"Meta Is Building an AI to Fact-Check Wikipedia\u2014All 6.5 Million Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meta-is-building-an-ai-to-fact-check-wikipedia-all-6-5-million-articles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meta is developing a machine learning model that scans these citations and cross-references their content to Wikipedia articles to verify that not only the topics line up, but specific figures cited are accurate.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just a matter of picking out numbers and making sure they match; Meta\u2019s AI will need to \u201cunderstand\u201d the content of cited sources (though \u201cunderstand\u201d is a misnomer, as complexity theory researcher Melanie Mitchell <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2021\/05\/06\/to-advance-ai-we-need-to-better-understand-human-intelligence-and-address-these-4-fallacies\/\">would tell you<\/a>, because AI is still in the \u201cnarrow\u201d phase, meaning it\u2019s a tool for highly sophisticated pattern recognition, while \u201cunderstanding\u201d is a word used for human cognition, which is still a very different thing).<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s model will \u201cunderstand\u201d content not by comparing text strings and making sure they contain the same words, but by comparing mathematical representations of blocks of text, which it arrives at using natural language understanding (NLU) techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is developing a machine learning model that scans these citations and cross-references their content to Wikipedia articles to verify that not only the topics line up, but specific figures cited are accurate. This isn\u2019t just a matter of picking out numbers and making sure they match; Meta\u2019s AI will need to \u201cunderstand\u201d the content [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}