Googles Knowledge Vault Holds Hundreds of Millions of Facts, and Gathering Even More
September 18, 2014
The article titled Google’s Fact-Checking Bots Build Vast Knowledge Bank on New Scientist reports on the latest Google innovation. The Knowledge Vault is an entirely computerized system that is gathering information without human help. Sound like IBM’s Watson? It isn’t your imagination. The article states,
“Knowledge Vault has pulled in 1.6 billion facts to date. Of these, 271 million are rated as “confident facts”, to which Google’s model ascribes a more than 90 per cent chance of being true. It does this by cross-referencing new facts with what it already knows…As well as the ability to analyse text on a webpage for facts to feed its knowledge base, Google can also peer under the surface of the web, hunting for hidden sources of data…”
Google is not the only company investing in this sort of system. Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon are all working on similar projects, as well as IBM. The possibility of a virtual personal assistant is coming closer than ever (think Her, not Siri). Google may have a leg up in its ability to cull personal information from Gmail, Google Plus and Youtube as well as public knowledge. The article suggests that the Knowledge Vault’s accumulated data may change the way we understand history, and even help us predict the future.
Chelsea Kerwin, September 18, 2014
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