Facebook, now Meta, has developed the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of automatically verifying hundreds of thousands of citations at once, a feature that it says could help make entries on Wikipedia “more accurate.”
Researchers designed the AI in a way that it can find appropriate sources for a claim from among millions of webpages, according to a Meta blog post on July 11. Algorithms were fed with four million claims from Wikipedia, which taught them to zero in on a single source from the vast pool of webpages to validate every single statement.
The model ranks the cited source and also lists out potential alternative sources that might support the claim. A human editor can then review the AI-supplied citation for approval. According to Meta, the AI model will “bolster” the quality of knowledge in Wikipedia….