Artificial intelligence can keep Wikipedia articles up to date

In the meantime, the German Wikipedia alone has grown to more than 2,385,000 articles. It is a tremendous achievement. Especially when you consider that all of these texts were written by people in their free time. With many articles, however, it is now becoming clear that the community can no longer keep them up to date. The information found there is therefore not fundamentally wrong, but only out of date. A new artificial intelligence - developed by MIT researchers - could help here. This specializes in capturing texts and comparing them with current information. If the algorithm detects a difference, it supplements or changes the article.

The grammatical skills are still expandable
Specifically, the system was trained to recognize which words have to be replaced in order to update the article and which have to be retained in order not to change the original meaning. The software then goes to work and creates a new sentence from the old frame and the new facts. However, the system does not yet work perfectly. For example, human testers gave the results correctness 4 out of 5 stars. When it came to grammar, the rating was a little worse. Here a value of 3.85 out of 5 stars was achieved. Specifically, this means that the texts formulated by the software did not yet fit seamlessly into the rest of the text - and were therefore recognizable as AI formulations.

Other possible uses are also conceivable
However, there are artificial intelligence so that they get better and more accurate over time. This should also be the case in this example. In the future there could also be useful applications beyond Wikipedia. For example, fact checkers and systems for identifying fake news must always have access to current and accurate facts. The system could be used here to keep the information behind it up to date. It would also be conceivable to use the AI to regularly update old newspaper articles. With all these tasks, of course, it must be ensured that the software itself uses only trustworthy sources.