LONDON: An Indian-origin entrepreneur's UK-based start-up that uses a machine-learning algorithm to sift fact from fiction is about to fight faux information around the world, together with plans for a undertaking particularly focused at India.
Lyric Jain, a Cambridge University engineering student at first from Mysore, set up Logically closing year and has since developed the West Yorkshire-based start-up right into a machine-learning platform to filter out real from fiction.
The platform, which is currently going through era trials with companions and advisors, could have its complete public launch in September for the United Kingdom and america, and hit India by October.
The intention is for the provider to work as a information aggregator as well as an indicator of factual accuracy.
"The Logically platform gathers the biggest news stories from over 70,000 domains and determines the credibility of the claims across each article. It does this by using a machine learning algorithm that is designed to detect logical fallacy, political bias, and incorrect statistics," the 21-year-old techie explains.
"By illuminating the quality of information across these articles, Logically provides users with a transparent and insightful view that allows them to determine how trustworthy the news they read really is," he said.
With a growing number of circumstances of pretend information being exchanged over the WhatsApp messaging provider in India, his start-up is exploring tactics for artificial intelligence (AI) to accurately assess the validity of data sooner than any human can.
India has over 200 million WhatsApp customers and with the device being encrypted, it becomes extraordinarily tricky for legislation enforcement to intervene and stop faux tales from spreading.
"Because of the highly emotive nature of these stories, people are quick to react. This means the time it takes to disprove compelling fake news stories is often too long to prevent action being taken," Jain said.
"We are still exploring options such as an instant verification chatbot on WhatsApp and will announce our plans by the end of the year," he said.
Logically has a board of advisers made up of alumni from each Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in america and Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and has raised 1 million pound in investment. It employs 38 people throughout the United Kingdom, India and america and is planning to almost double that figure.
Jain believes there is an urgent need for larger training round the issue of pretend information and incorrect information being unfold, largely by means of on-line networks.
"The technology we are developing will equip people with the tools they need in order to navigate a complex and confusing information landscape better than before, but governments still need to do a better job educating people on the real dangers of interacting with misinformation," he said.
His platform, which combines AI and human intelligence as well as complex analytics, is planned as a first-of-its-kind "intelligent news feed" that he believes may end up to be the way forward for journalism.
Lyric Jain, a Cambridge University engineering student at first from Mysore, set up Logically closing year and has since developed the West Yorkshire-based start-up right into a machine-learning platform to filter out real from fiction.
The platform, which is currently going through era trials with companions and advisors, could have its complete public launch in September for the United Kingdom and america, and hit India by October.
The intention is for the provider to work as a information aggregator as well as an indicator of factual accuracy.
"The Logically platform gathers the biggest news stories from over 70,000 domains and determines the credibility of the claims across each article. It does this by using a machine learning algorithm that is designed to detect logical fallacy, political bias, and incorrect statistics," the 21-year-old techie explains.
"By illuminating the quality of information across these articles, Logically provides users with a transparent and insightful view that allows them to determine how trustworthy the news they read really is," he said.
With a growing number of circumstances of pretend information being exchanged over the WhatsApp messaging provider in India, his start-up is exploring tactics for artificial intelligence (AI) to accurately assess the validity of data sooner than any human can.
India has over 200 million WhatsApp customers and with the device being encrypted, it becomes extraordinarily tricky for legislation enforcement to intervene and stop faux tales from spreading.
"Because of the highly emotive nature of these stories, people are quick to react. This means the time it takes to disprove compelling fake news stories is often too long to prevent action being taken," Jain said.
"We are still exploring options such as an instant verification chatbot on WhatsApp and will announce our plans by the end of the year," he said.
Logically has a board of advisers made up of alumni from each Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in america and Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and has raised 1 million pound in investment. It employs 38 people throughout the United Kingdom, India and america and is planning to almost double that figure.
Jain believes there is an urgent need for larger training round the issue of pretend information and incorrect information being unfold, largely by means of on-line networks.
"The technology we are developing will equip people with the tools they need in order to navigate a complex and confusing information landscape better than before, but governments still need to do a better job educating people on the real dangers of interacting with misinformation," he said.
His platform, which combines AI and human intelligence as well as complex analytics, is planned as a first-of-its-kind "intelligent news feed" that he believes may end up to be the way forward for journalism.
Indian-origin entrepreneur develops algorithm to combat fake news
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