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Assertion Supported
AI cannot yet perform database-style reading and QA on unstructured Wikipedia text
“Nobody can answer on Wikipedia the way that you would answer with a database or anything like this, doing reading.”
Antoine Bordes Nov 9, 2016 ▶ 15:54 Artificial Intelligence at Facebook // Antoine Bordes, Facebook [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Assertion Partly supported
Gourley: Google includes Wikipedia on page one for 85% of common searches
“Google actually returns Wikipedia 85% of the time with the most common searches on the first page.”
Sean Gourley Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 11:49 Sean Gourley, Quid // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Gourley: Wikipedia had no page for Andrej Karpathy when Primer built his bio
“Well, we could actually compare that to what was on Wikipedia at the time when it was generated, and the answer was nothing. Right? Now, if you go there now, he's taking care of this. We brought it up with Tesla, and their PR department got onto this, but ther…”
Sean Gourley Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 8:46 Building Machines That Can Read and Write // Sean Gourley, Primer (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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