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Re:Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (2005) by dithering on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:11AM (#18977065)
Putting aside the difficulty of building that database of true facts, and of parsing unknown facts out of English text, that solution feels like it's inviting an arms race. I can write a bunch of uncontroversial "true" facts into an article containing one or two false facts.
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Re:Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (2005) by usrusr on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:07AM (#18978176)
Diluting lies with verifiable but only tangentially related truths is a well-established tactic to fooling humans as well.

Someone with an agenda in the symbolic vs statistic AI question could take this parallel as an example of how close ontology-based AI approaches are to the way humans think. And then someone with the opposite agenda would point out that the example is all hypothetical.

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