[WikiEN-l] robotically generated content

[WereSpielChequers]

On 14 April 2010 13:00,  <wikien-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>   1. Re: Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated
>      "encyclopedia". (MuZemike)
>

> Here's an example article from Cpedia about Barack Obama (basically,
> read and weep):
>
> http://www.cpedia.com/wiki?q=Barack+Obama
>
> After skimming over it really quickly (especially read the end), words
> cannot describe it as far as the tone of the article is concerned.
>
> -MuZemike
>
> On 4/13/2010 11:18 AM, Ryan Delaney wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Ryan Delaney<ryan.delaney at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:31 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what
>>>> they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cpedia.com/
>>>>
>>>> It's like Wikipedia read by Mark V. Shaney.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - d.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Lmao.
>>>

At least they got the idea that he was an American Politician.

Try comparing this:

http://www.cpedia.com/wiki?q=Bo%20Dog&disambig=Bo%20Obama%20Dog

With http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_%28dog%29

There's a future for AI's on the Internet, I even tried to spark
discussions at the beginning of the month
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship/Archive_197#AI_Editors

But it would seem the technology is still some way off.


WereSpielChequers