{"id":649,"date":"2007-01-07T14:57:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T21:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=649"},"modified":"2007-01-07T14:57:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T21:57:23","slug":"the_wikipedian_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"The Wikipedian brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/01\/07\/1739217&#038;from=rss\">points<\/a> to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news87276588.html\">article<\/a> describing how artificial intelligence scholars at Technion, the Israeli technical university, are using Wikipedia to give computers an understanding of the world. The researchers, according to the article, &#8220;have found a way to give computers encyclopedic knowledge of the world to help them &#8216;think smarter,&#8217; making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does &#8230; The program devised by the Technion researchers helps computers map single words and larger fragments of text to a database of concepts built from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia &#8230; The Wikipedia-based concepts act as &#8216;background knowledge&#8217; to help computers figure out [meaning].&#8221; I knew it. In the end, we&#8217;re all going to end up working for Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot points to an article describing how artificial intelligence scholars at Technion, the Israeli technical university, are using Wikipedia to give computers an understanding of the world. The researchers, according to the article, &#8220;have found a way to give computers encyclopedic knowledge of the world to help them &#8216;think smarter,&#8217; making common sense and broad-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}