geni wrote:
2009/5/2 Ray Saintonge:
If wikipedia like collections of information are still being written by human beings in a couple of decades I will be rather surprised. We've already to a large extent reached the point where the quickest way to fill in info boxes would be computers making suggestions and humans sanity checking them.
This sounds like a nightmare scenario. The problem is that as long as we are focussed on filling in boxes we fail to think outside the box.
Not relevant. This is simply the state of the technology at the moment. People are working on technology that can write entire articles and eventually generate them on the fly.
So you believe that we should accede to this dystopic reminiscence of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis"
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