User:Awchesley/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Ethics of Artificial Intelligence


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article was given an S rating by Wikipedia, meaning that there is 'plenty of room for improvement.' The article seems fairly short and the sections could be updated with more recent information. I would be really interested on building upon the Robot Ethics section. I think it would also be appropriate to include a section about AI regulations that have been put in place. There has been some recent discussion on the talk page but for minor changes. It seems this article could use an update.


 * Sources
 * A potential source includes the White House's draft for regulating artificial intelligence, released January 2020.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Female Gendering of AI Technologies


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article was given an S rating by Wikipedia, meaning that there is 'plenty of room for improvement.' The article is very biased and has been flagged by Wikipedia for this reason and for citation issues. I think this could be an interesting topic with the article going into AI digital assistants being primarily female. However, it does not go into depth in a neutral way and instead focuses on the gender bias being detrimental to females. The talk page is empty except that someone posted that the page should be deleted for its non-biased writings.


 * Sources
 * There are not many reliable citations in the current article although there have been quite a few scholarly articles written on this subject. A potential source is 'Conversing with Personal Digital Assistants: on Gender and Artificial Intelligence' written by Pedro Costa.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Zara (Retailer)


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article was given a C rating by Wikipedia, meaning that there is ' room for improvement.' Although the article does give a background of Zara, products and controversies, it does not discuss its use of technology at all. In this class we have learned the various ways that Zara uses technology to make data-driven decisions and this could be included on the Wikipedia page. The talk page is empty except for a nomination to delete an image from the page.


 * Sources
 * A potential source could be the book for this class, 'A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology.'

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Solving the E-Waste Problem


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article was given an S rating by Wikipedia, meaning that there is 'plenty of room for improvement.' It discusses StEP, an e-waste initiative created by United Nations. Its fairly brief and does not currently have any citations other than the official website. The talk page is empty. More information from other sources could be added into this article as well as if this initiative has had success.


 * Sources
 * A potential source is 'E-waste challenges: Re-use Practices, Principles and Standards'

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Could start a new article on Jill Watson, the virtual teaching assistant created by Ashok Goel, a professor at Georgia Tech.


 * Article Evaluation
 * Although Jill Watson is mentioned on the Watson (computer) article, it is very brief. An entire article could be dedicated to Goel's experiment in creating a virtual TA for his class without telling his students. He designed Jill Watson o only answer questions that she was 97% sure she could do so correctly. All other questions were answered by humans. Goel noted that his students seemed more engaged and motivated than in previous semesters.


 * Sources
 * A potential source could be 'Jill Watson: A Virtual Teaching Assistant for Online Education' written by Ashok Goel and Lalith Polepeddi.