Can metadata generate its own data?
09 Apr 2024
AI reflects the conscious and unconscious biases of the knowledge that's fed into it and the learning model at its core. So how do we arrive at a better understanding of our AI systems' biases-knowing that we may share them and have contributed to them-and take measures to curb and counteract them?
02 Apr 2024
It's an exciting time for KM, with new technologies and new approaches sparking new opportunities. The KMWorld conference, the largest global gathering of KM thought leaders, practitioners, and authors, returns to Washington, D.C., this November.
07 Sep 2023
Pairing human knowledge with technologies that allow for data extraction, information analysis, and knowledge insights is the future of KM.
Marydee Ojala //
09 Jan 2023
Knowledge as we've known it for 100 years has been knocked over by little hyperlinks, says David Weinberger, a senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. In his keynote address at KMWorld 2012, Weinberger explores the new boundaries of knowledge management.
Sandra Haimila //
15 Nov 2012
"The volume, complexity and importance of medical information used in support of diagnosis and treatment of illness, as well as the dramatically rising costs of healthcare, drive initiatives to improve information use" ...
Judith Lamont, Ph.D. //
05 Jul 2012
Longtime KMWorld columnist David Weinberger's latest book is Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room. His previous works include, The Cluetrain Manifesto, Small Pieces Loosely Joined and Everything is Miscellaneous. He is a senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab...
Hugh McKellar //
01 Feb 2012
There are business processes, and then there are processes that mean business. Not all work activities are created equal.
Take me, for example. A work process for me is: Decide to write an article; worry about it; pace the floor, fret, stew and finally get it done at the last minute. Most of the time. Doesn't sound like much of a "process," does it? You'd think that after 30-odd years of doing this, it would get easier. Nope. But I try to keep in mind the advice my friend David Weinberger gave me once: "Crappiness is hard to detect, but lateness is apparent immediately" . . . .
Andy Moore //
01 Jan 2012
Everyday Chaos author David Weinberger talks machine learning versus programming during his KMWorld Connect 2020
Stephanie Simone //
08 Jul 2021
Opening keynote speakers include David Weinberger, Paul Nelson, Robert Pashinsky, and Christophe Aubry
Stephanie Simone //
17 Nov 2020
David Weinberger discussed "Miscellaneous Organization in the AI Age" during his KMWorld Connect 2020 presentation
Stephanie Simone //
16 Nov 2020
Data Summit will take place May 22-23, at the Hyatt Regency Boston, and the Cognitive Computing Summit will be co-located at the event
Joyce Wells //
30 Mar 2018
If that voice sounds familiar, it might just be your own
Dan Bolita //
07 Feb 2000
The industry reacts with cautious approval to the Microsoft KM news. KMWorld exclusive report.
27 Sep 1999
The portal craze both helps and hurts KM, and that's good.
David Weinberger //
01 May 1999
When you try to develop a machine learning application that affects people, you quickly learn that fairness is far more complex than we usually think, and also that fairness almost always requires us to make difficult trade-offs
Joyce Wells //
09 Mar 2020
So, yes, the web enables everyone with an internet connection and the freedom to use it to contribute to our new, global, contentious, and contradictory knowledge space. But I did not foresee the dark side because of an optimism born of privilege.
David Weinberger //
13 Mar 2024
Perhaps this latest phase in the history of data will bring us to accept inexplicable complexity as a property of the world. We could view this as pure chaos, but thanks to having lived through the past four ages in rapid succession, we might instead recognize that chaos as being rich with endless mysteries we will never uncover completely.
David Weinberger //
08 Jan 2024
The good news is that the problem of chat AI's proclivity for hallucinating is well-recognized by the organizations creating these marvels, and they realize that it is a danger to the world and to their success, not necessarily in that order of priority. Until that problem is solved, chat AI engines need to lose their self-confidence and make it crystal clear that they are the most unabashed and charming liars the world has ever seen.
David Weinberger //
02 Nov 2023
We don't have pronouns by which we can address inanimate objects because we haven't had any occasions to have actual conversations with them.
David Weinberger //
07 Sep 2023
These two types of knowing—understanding the world and understanding knowledge—are, in some important ways, at odds in AI-based chatbots.
David Weinberger //
12 Jul 2023
Tags have become so common that they've faded from consciousness since 2007, although sometimes a clever hashtag pops up.
David Weinberger //
08 May 2023
This way of knowing works pragmatically for some very complex systems of the sort we find in the real world. But, oddly, itseems not to work so well in some artificially simple systems.
David Weinberger //
08 Mar 2023
The web transformed the role of knowledge by making it instantly available but not inherently reliable.
David Weinberger //
09 Jan 2023