Allen Institute’s VeriSci uses AI to fact-check scientific claims

ByJerome Smith
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Researchers affiliated with the University of Washington and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence say they’ve developed an AI system — VeriSci — that can automatically fact-check scientific claims. Ostensibly, the system can not only identify abstracts within papers that support or refute the claims, but can also provide rationales for its predictions in the form of evidence extracted from the abstracts.  » ….