A few months ago, I was invited to write a short response to a question submitted to the AI Helpdesk—a Dutch-language platform “where anyone can receive scientifically reliable and clear answers to questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI).” The question I was asked to address was: “What are the prospects for AI and Wikipedia?“ Below isContinue reading “Wikipedia at the Crossroads: Harnessing AI Without Losing the Human Touch”
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How Big Data will change our lives and our understanding of them
… If the invention of telescopes provided us with the ability to understand how galaxies behave, and the microscope allowed us to find the cure of such a huge amount of diseases, this century we are going to understand much more about the social systems because of big data. There is no doubt that humans areContinue reading “How Big Data will change our lives and our understanding of them”
Breaking news in a connected world
The bitterness of the tragedy is the same, what has changed is the way that information spreads. I heard about the Boston Marathon Bombing, first when I was preparing to go to bed, and as a recently emerged habit, I was doing my bed-time-Facebook “friend feed” check. The news-line was so shocking that I kept “browsing” forContinue reading “Breaking news in a connected world”
Taha Yasseri 