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Cloud data computing and neural network, cross-media marketing mesh representing connections, monitor screen in perspective

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News
Date
July 24, 2023

Categorized
Technology

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Algorithms, Botipedia, COSM, Google, Insead, Phil Parker, Search Engine Tech, Technology, Totosearch, Wikipedia}

You Control the Algorithm

_{Watch Dr. Phil Parker discuss how he and his team have developed revolutionary new search engine technology} _{News

July 24, 2023

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Technology}

For today’s featured video from a past COSM conference, watch Dr. Phil Parker, INSEAD Chair Professor of Management Science and Founder of Botipedia, discuss how his team has unlocked the power of algorithm-based content creation to create the revolutionary new search engine technology of Botipedia/Totosearch, which promises to be a dramatic improvement over Wikipedia and Google. We’ve been sharing a number of lectures from past COSM conferences. This video is just one of many you can find at the Bradley Center’s YouTube page. There you’ll find several lectures, interviews, and panels dealing with issues that range from economics, Big Tech, and artificial intelligence. Notable speakers include 2022 Kyoto Prize winner Carver Mead, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, and George Gilder, co-founder of Discovery Institute and author Read More ›

courtroom attastor talking to magistrate

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Author
Richard W. Stevens
Date
September 1, 2022

Categorized
Law

Tagged
Evidence in courtroom and Wikipedia, Featured, Hearsay concept, Truth and "democratic" truth, Wikipedia, Wikipedia and citations in law, Wikipedia as courtroom source of authority, Wikipedia as evidence in U.S. courts, Wikipedia as expert testimony, Wikipedia Disclaimer and trustworthiness, Wikipedia information as evidence, Wikipedia study on Irish law citations}

Can You Trust Wikipedia to Decide Your Courtroom Fate?

_{Should judges and lawyers rely on Wikipedia to guide court case decisions? Researchers devised a clever test to see if they do} _{Richard W. Stevens

September 1, 2022

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Law}

Wired recently ran an article entitled “Wikipedia Articles Sway Some Legal Judgments.” The subtitle declared: “An experiment shows that overworked judges turn to the crowdsourced encyclopedia for guidance when making legal decisions.” Wired’s headline oversold the story but the topic is worth a close look. Researchers at Maynooth University in Ireland, MIT, and New York’s Cornell University conducted a study to test whether Wikipedia articles about Irish court decisions affected judicial rulings in subsequent cases in Ireland. The researchers selected Irish Supreme Court decisions, analyzed them, and posted about 75 articles in Wikipedia describing those decisions. They wanted to see whether Irish courts were then using the Wikipedia articles when writing their own judicial opinions. In English, Irish, Canadian, American, Read More ›

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Author
Caitlin Cory
Date
March 30, 2022

Categorized
Censorship, Social Media

Tagged
Bluesky, decentralization, Encyclosphere, Free speech, Jack Dorsey, Larry Sanger, Minifeed, Open vs. closed platform, Parag Agrawal, Twitter, Web 3.0, Wikipedia}

Could Decentralization Fix Twitter’s Censorship Problems?

_{Decentralization is not an automatic guarantee of internet freedom, but it may be a good first step} _{Caitlin Cory

March 30, 2022

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Censorship, Social Media}

Twitter is considering decentralization according to a recent report from The New York Times. But what does decentralization mean, and how would it impact our experience with social media? Is this a solution to all the problems around censorship standards that Big Tech companies have faced in recent years? According to The New York Times, Twitter is following the early vision of a former employee named Blaine Cook by “funding an independent effort to build a so-called open protocol for social media. It is also weaving cryptocurrency into its app, and opening up to developers who want to build custom features for Twitter.” Kate Conger reports: Some skeptics believe Twitter is jumping on the web3 bandwagon, joining a trendy movement in tech to shift many Read More ›

Spread your influence and opinions to other people. Good cultural and powerful bad effect. Undue unwholesome sway. Business leader concept.

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Author
News
Date
April 30, 2021

Categorized
Creativity, Programming, Social Media

Tagged
Academic Influence (website), Algorithm (to measure influence), Creativity, Erik J. Larson, Featured, Gregory Chaitin, Karina Macosko, Wikipedia}

How Erik Larson Hit on a Method for Deciding Who Is Influential

_{The author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence decided to apply an algorithm to Wikipedia — but it had to be very specific} _{News

April 30, 2021

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Creativity, Programming, Social Media}

Here’s another interview (with transcript) at Academic Influence with Erik J. Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do (2021). The book was #2 at Amazon as of 11:00 am EST today in the Natural Language Processing category. In this interview, Larson talks about how he developed an algorithm to rank people by the amount of influence they have, using Wikipedia. That was one of the projects that got him thinking about myths of artificial intelligence. It began with his reading of Hannah Arendt, a philosopher of totalitarianism: Excerpt (0:04:25.0) Erik Larson: And she has a whole philosophy of technology that I was reading as background to write The Myth of Artificial Read More ›

The concept of building a business network Businessmen experience a global network and global online trading development system exchange.

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Author
Caitlin Cory
Date
March 12, 2021

Categorized
Censorship, Media

Tagged
bias, censorship, encyclopedia, Encyclosphere, Günter Bechly, Intelligent design theory, Larry Sanger, Neutrality claims, Walter Bradley, Wikipedia}

Wikipedia’s Bias Meets a Free-Speech Alternative

_{The famously free encyclopedia’s pages on abortion, communism, and historical figures reveal a left-leaning bias} _{Caitlin Cory

March 12, 2021

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Censorship, Media}

Last December, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger announced that he would be launching a free speech alternative to Wikipedia, a website that Sanger believes has lost its credibility as a neutral source of information. Sanger’s Encyclosphere is meant to be “an open encyclopedia network” (Sanger compares it to “the blogosphere”) with the goal of “build(ing) a network that … all of humanity owns and no one exclusively controls.” One of Wikipedia’s declared “fundamental principle(s)” is NPOV – neutral point of view. Wikipedia defines NPOV as “representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic.” “This policy is non-negotiable,” the website states. But according to Sanger, “Wikipedia’s ‘NPOV’ is dead.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 16, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Alexa, Crowdsourcing, Wikipedia}

Ask Alexa (and an anonymous crowd answers?)

_{Amazon is testing a crowd sourcing approach to difficult questions. How did that work out at Wikipedia?} _{Denyse O'Leary

September 16, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence}

Wikipedia is a classic example of how crowdsourcing can go wrong. The obvious problem is anonymity and the lack of accountability that goes with it.