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Wikipedia Used for Artificial Intelligence

Posted by Zonk on from the great-it-has-finally-become-self-aware dept.

eldavojohn writes "It may be no surprise but Wikipedia is now being used in the field of artificial intelligence. The applications for this may be endless. For instance, the front of spam fighting is a tough one and it looks as though researchers are now turning towards an ontology or taxonomy based solution to fight spammers. The concept is also on the forefront of artificial intelligence and progress towards an application passing the Turing Test and creating semantically aware applications. The article comments on uses of Wikipedia in this manner: '"... spam filters block all messages containing the word 'vitamin,' but fail to block messages containing the word B12. If the program never saw B12 before, it's just a word without any meaning. But you would know it's a vitamin," Markovitch said. "With our methodology, however, the computer will use its Wikipedia-based knowledge base to infer that 'B12' is strongly associated with the concept of vitamins, and will correctly identify the message as spam," he added.'"

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  1. Terminus As A.I. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov

    The premise of the series is that mathematician Hari Seldon has spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory.

    It uses the law of mass action to predict the future on a large scale, such as of planets or empires.

    Using these techniques, Seldon foresees the fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way. He also predicts that there will be a thirty-thousand-year dark age before the next great empire rises.

    To prevent this, he decides to create a small secluded haven of technology in a corner of the galaxy (on the planet Terminus) called the Foundation, whose job it will be to preserve knowledge after the collapse, thus reducing the time required for the next Empire to rebuild. If done properly, it will take only a thousand years before the next empire rises.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Series

    BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

    "I'd like to show you some very interesting conditioning for Alpha Plus Intellectuals. We have a big batch of them on Rack 5. First Gallery level."

    http://www.huxley.net/bnw/

    1984 by George Orwell

    WAR IS PEACE - FREEDOM IS SLAVERY - IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

    http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/

    Source page where quotes came from is OFF TOPIC from discussion and has nothing with this thread. It is presented as 'source reference only', no need to visit:

    http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/page001.html

    Please read before moderation. This post is an attempt to provoke imagination and humor in this thread and (imo) is on topic. Thank You ... A.C.