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AI Can Help Write Wikipedia Pages for Overlooked Scientists
Plenty of prominent scientists have Wikipedia pages. But while checking to see if someone specific has a Wikipedia page is a quick Google search away, figuring out who should be on Wikipedia but isn't—and then writing an entry for him or her—is much trickier.
An AI system can help. Wikipedia contributors can use a system from Primer dubbed Quicksilver to help write pages for scientists who deserve a page but do not have one.
Primer uses AI to read information and generate reports; part of its focus is doing the kind of work an intelligence analyst might do. For this project, Primer used around 30,000 existing scientist Wikipedia pages to train their machine learning systems. Then they fed 200,000 names and related employment information into their AI system. Those names came from the listed authors of scientific papers focused on computer science and biomedical research provided to Primer from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
"That was the input to Quicksilver—we just fed it in, and we went home, and it ran," says John Bohannon, the director of science at Primer. "We generated 40,000 new people overnight."
From Popular Science
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