In my opinion that is stupid. You do not blame the hammer; the problem is where the hammer lands. The point of AI is in its analytics. It is not necessary to ask for new information. It can be asked to analyse existing texts, for instance all the Wikipedia articles on the same subject. The objective would be to find inconsistencies and with a corpus as large as the "sum of all knowledge" there will be plenty.
Once we are made aware of inconsistencies, the implicit challenge we always faced becomes explicit. Important is that all the knowledge necessary is in the "sum of all knowledge" itself meaning that the AI can be trained on all content from all Wikimedia projects. This would make it a multilingual and multicultural model,
What one Wikipedia knows and another does not is an inconsistency and at first the least interesting one. More relevant is to know what one Wikipedia knows different from another Wikipedia. Things like is he alive or is she the minister of defence for Whereeverland. The difference is in references.
When an AI points to inconsistencies and to the latest references, how can any self respecting Wikimedian object to a tool like this?
Thanks,
GerardM
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