Using AI to help decipher what is true and what is false is the topic of this episode of The AI Minute. For more on Artificial Intelligence: https://voicesinai.com https://gigaom.com https://byronreese.com https://ift.tt/31WftGA... Transcript: The single biggest problem with the web is that you don’t know what to believe. In fact, I started a company to address this problem over 4 years ago called, fittingly, Knowlingly. But fact-checking the web is, as you might guess, astonishingly difficult. We live in a world where people don’t just disagree about the values, but they disagree about facts. But beyond that, we have the added difficulty that language itself is imprecise, with words having a wide range of meanings. Even emphasis on a single word alters meaning. Consider the 8 word sentence, “I didn’t tell her you stole her pearls.†Depending on which of the words you emphasize changes the meaning. We had hopes that in the Internet age, access to information would bring about consensus on facts. And while this hope can be viewed as either optimistic or naive, it is probably too early to give up on the prospect. With AI, statements can be cross-referenced, sources and experts ranked and rated, consensus opinions extracted, and likely truthfulness scored. We don’t need the AI to hand us truth on a silver platter, rather, we need a mechanism to aid us in ascertaining the truth. And that, AI can deliver on.
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