Will #AI will follow the trajectory of #Wikipedia?
* In its infancy, unreliable & famous for its unreliability.
* In its adolescence, steadily improving in quality, including the practice of citing real, relevant sources for important claims.
* In its maturity, respected for reliability, w/ occasional embarrassing exceptions. Most people with high standards are happy to read a Wikipedia article for an intro to a topic new to them.

I'm wondering. AI could but needn't follow this path.

Wikipedia-Mastodon Thing -- https://mastogizmos.com/wmt.html

Occasionally my ability to name my tools fails, lol. Anyway, Wikipedia-Mastodon Thing lets you keyword search #Wikipedia for articles with associated Mastodon addresses in #Wikidata. .

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Find Out What’s Moving and Shaking With Wikipedia Hot Topics

Wikipedia Hot Topics analyzes the top 1000 Wikipedia pages for a given date, finds the ones which had a significant view bump against a 7-day median (more than 100%), then divides them into categories ... Each Wikipedia article on the list gets a detail…

https://www.calishat.com/2024/08/05/find-out-whats-moving-and-shaking-with-wikipedia-hot-topics/

#Wikipedia#Wikidata #CurrentEvents#OSINT