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Fri 09 Sep 2010Artificial intelligence is a current web reality, Galway conference told
“TRUTHINESS” MAY have a lot more truth to it than many people think. The term, coined by a US comedian, reflects a growing dependence on web-based social networking, according to researchers at a conference in NUI Galway.
It is four years since US political humorist Stephen Colbert started talking about “truthiness” and “wikiality”, as in a dependence on Wikipedia for fact-checking. The terms used in his programme, The Colbert Report, were voted top television buzzwords in 2006.
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