An Online Encyclopedia that Writes Itself

So, it appears that machines are starting to summarize information. This is interesting as it had been held up as one of the "pattern-finding" activities that humans could do well, but machines could not. Of course towards the end of this article, it is observed,

"The system lacks real-world knowledge that would help a human analyst recognize something as false, humorous, or plainly irrelevant."



I thought you might be interested in the following story on TechnologyReview.com:

"An Online Encyclopedia that Writes Itself"
Machine reading effort builds dossiers on people and organizations from translated news sources.

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=40687&a=f

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- Dr. Gary Ackerman