Twelve years ago on this January 15th day the very first real artificial intelligence opened on the world wide web - Wikipedia. It seemed dumb to all the other keyboard jockeys in that internet cafe that anybody could put any faith in information posted by a crowd that anybody could edit. Some of the memorable postings such as Camosexual "one who is sexually stimulated by camoflage [sic] patterns in such a large manner that it directly interfears [sic] in ones everyday life" or Players of 3D Space Cadet Pinball Who Can't Get It Up To Satisfy Their Wives eventually were deleted by the part of the crowd that took the concept seriously. Now when you can't answe a question, Wikipedia can and it's as right as the Britanica. There's even a Wikiversity for the purpose of creating or changing teaching materials. Here's the breakpoint - the notion of Neutral Point of View coincides with the the hip-hop group NPOV (N-word Pussy Outbeats Vagina) which was playing on the boombox outside the cafe when I first logged onto Wikipedia that day. Should have been an affirmation that the Wiki era means we don't have to remember stuff much anymore.
