Just a quick thought that I shared in IRC earlier.
AI isn't magical. It's pretty cool, but you're not going to have a
> conversation with ORES
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service>.
>
It's not false that we are closer to strong "conversational" AI than ever
before. Still, in practical terms, we're pretty far away from not needing
to program anymore. I find that articles like this are more fantastical
than informative. I guess it is interesting to think about where we'll be
when we can have an abstract conversation with a computer system rather
than the rigid specifics of programming, but I'm with Brian -- this seems
to be a cycle. Though, I'd say the media does boom and bust, but the
research carries on relatively consistently since AI researchers are
usually less interested in the hype.
In the ORES project, we're using the most simplistic "AIs" available --
classifiers. Still these dumb AIs can still help us to do amazing things
(e.g. review all of RecentChanges in 50x faster or augment article
histories with information about the *type of change* made). IMO, it's
these amazing and powerful things that dumb, non-conversational AIs can do
that is very powerful and a little scary
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/opinion/the-real-bias-built-in-at-faceboo…>.
We're hardly taking advantage of that at all. I think that's where the
next big revolution with AI is taking place right now. It's going to
change a lot of things and infect many aspects of our life (and in many
ways it already has).
-Aaron
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Purodha Blissenbach <
purodha(a)blissenbach.org> wrote:
> I see only an ad to support Wired.
> Purodha
>
>
> On 20.05.2016 20:11, Pine W wrote:
>
>> Seems like a good summary: http://www.wired.com/2016/05/the-end-of-code/
>>
>> Comments welcome, especially from Wikimedia AI experts who are working on
>> ORES.
>>
>> Pine
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Hey,
Here is the weekly update for the Revision Scoring project for the week of
May 9th through May 15th.
*New developments:*
- We do have a dedicated help page on how to request that we add support
for new languages[1]
- We deployed new version of revscoring and ORES, The biggest
improvement is speed. Improvments may vary in different wikis but for
English Wikipedia is about 20% [2]
- We are pre-generating list of bad words for different langauges. [3]
- shinken and icinga now report outages and recovery on #wikimedia-ai --
our main work channel[4]
*Maintenance and robustness:*
- Soon, Your unlabeled edits in Wikilabels will be made available to
others after 24 hours. [5]
- We improved logging of scoring errors in ORES [6]
1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135179
2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135381
3. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134629
4. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134726
5. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134619
6. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135399
Hello,
Today, Wikilabels database will get an kernel update. Which means the
database will be down for about three minutes. In that moment you can
access to the wikilabels server [1] or any of its test servers such as
labels-staging or labels-experiment but you would be unable to make a
change in the database, get stats, or any other thing that requires
database access.
Thank you for your patience
[1]: labels.wmflabs.org
Best
Labs had a DNS blip that caused ORES to be down for a few minutes (between
14:59 and 15:04 UTC) today. Everything seems to be back to normal now.
>From #wikimedia-labs <irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-labs>connect
<https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-labs>:
[10:32:25] <YuviPanda> halfak: temp dns blip
[10:32:36] <halfak> Gotcha. Thanks YuviPanda
[10:32:57] <halfak> was it big enough to warrant a write-up?
[10:33:13] <halfak> If not, I'll just post "temp DNS blib" to my ORES
users and call it good.
[10:33:39] <YuviPanda> halfak: probably not, since we're doing a bunch
of DNS stuff in the next few days to shore up DNS
[10:34:20] <halfak> kk
-Aaron