Wikipedia, which turns 25 years old today — eons in tech time — still boasts an army of hundreds of thousands of volunteers to keep it honest and human. Artificial intelligence boasts seemingly infinite data and algorithms that have helped it become almost human in its thinking.
Can the two coexist? Or more specifically, can Wikipedia collaborate, let alone compete with the inexorable march of AI?
Maryana Iskander thinks so. She’s CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that powers the ubiquitous website. She pointed to advantages such as the language diversity that Wikipedia maintains over AI — for now at least.