Initially, it was planned to use AI to detect errors in articles by comparing their content. For example, in search of contradictions or incomplete information. Correcting information still remains a human prerogative – AI does not add anything by itself and therefore does not introduce new bugs.

Developers want more

At the same time, Wikipedia has a pressing problem – a limited set of content. Since project participants are not tasked with writing about everything in the world, volunteers create articles based on their interests. As a result, many topics are not covered at all or there is little information about them. So much so that a neutral and hardworking GPT will be needed – a language model from OpenAI, which is the basis for today’s popular ChatGPT. However, someone still needs to assign tasks to him, which again leads to limitation of the sample.

The main danger of using AI when populating Wikipedia is that it is used as a source of information, especially for teaching other AIs. Any mistake in the article will be repeated many times and will actually become the new “truth”. – a fact everyone will believe, because artificial intelligence said so, and it’s on Wikipedia. If we take into account the scale of propagation of neural networks, this will lead to the formation of a huge body of misinformation, the verification of which would be a colossal task. Therefore, Wales is in no hurry to make a final decision.

We note that despite the constant development of artificial intelligence systems, they are still far from ideal, since they do not really understand the essence of what has been written. Developers are constantly trying to improve the results of their work. For example, create a special program for introspection. It forces the neural network to critically evaluate its own work and create recommendations for itself to correct errors. GPT-4 performance is improved 30% with this approach. Given such trends, it cannot be ruled out that artificial intelligence will one day be smart enough to write for Wikipedia.