Wednesday, August 8, 2018

AI spots 40,000 prominent scientists overlooked by Wikipedia

AI is often criticized for its tendency to perpetuate society’s biases, but it’s equally capable of fighting them. Machine learning is currently being used to scan scientific studies and news stories to identify prominent scientists who aren’t featured on Wikipedia. Many of these scientists are female, and their omission is particularly significant in the world’s most popular encyclopedia, where 82 percent of biographies are written about men.

The research has been carried out by an AI startup named Primer as a demonstration of the company’s expertise in natural language processing (NLP). This is a challenging but lively subfield of AI that’s all about understanding and generating digital text. Wikipedia is often used as a source to...

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