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Primer AI
Company blog · primer.ai/blogai
Primer AI is the company blog at primer.ai, writing about ai. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Using Machine Learning to Generate Wikipedia Articles for the Underrepresented”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links Primer AI's posts on NLP for non-English languages, knowledge base population and the Quicksilver project, and its homepage in a debate over AI and disinformation policy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Primer makes powerful mission-ready AI software designed to work in your environment, on your data. We help national security teams sift through massive unstructured data sets to find the needle in the haystack, understand and visualize their data, and act collaboratively. Our mission is to empower
Most-linked posts?
- Using Machine Learning to Generate Wikipedia Articles for the Underrepresented2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-13
What Hacker News says?
I think this is a push-not-pull situation. Here is a vision of the future articulated by a promising In-Q-Tel funded startup: [1,2] "[We need] a set of guiding principles to inform the types of speech that should be permitted in digital town squares" [1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/15/forget-counterterrorism... [2] https://primer.ai/
Comment linking /
on “The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire”Submitted Solving Arabic Name Transliteration as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThis blog-post discusses the dangers of blindly applying English-optimized NLP models to other languages: https://primer.ai/blog/Russian-Natural-Language-Processing/
Comment linking /blog/Russian-Natural-Language-Processing/
on “Natural language isn’t just English [pdf]”Submitted Russian Natural Language Processing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReminds of a submission from a year ago on autogenerating knowledge base from articles from the web [1]. I think it'd be neat if Q&A Nets and other techniques sufficed to the point where we would prefer using "knowledge engines" over search engines, like a generalized Wolfram Alpha. [1] https://primer.ai/blog/quicksilver
Comment linking /blog/quicksilver
on “KnowledgeNet: A Benchmark for Knowledge Base Population”Submitted Using Machine Learning to Generate Wikipedia Articles for the Underrepresented as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSo... we should deploy "AI" tools from the author's CIA-backed startup [1] so that we can have an "effective campaign in pursuit of truth that requires a set of guiding principles to inform the types of speech that should be permitted in digital town squares?" [1] https://primer.ai/
Comment linking /
on “Forget Counterterrorism, the USA Needs a Counter-Disinformation Strategy”