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Whether its the Netflix ta-dum, your Apple Macs startup chime or the THX Deep Note, a brands audio logo can immediately make you feel at home, and might even tell you something about the product/service/technology youre about to start using.

Not to be left out, Wikipedia has just revealed its own sonic sting. This was chosen via the companys The Sound of All Human Knowledge contest, which invited composers from around the world to create a sound that demonstrates what Wikipedia is all about. The winner was decided by a vote among volunteer contributors to Wikimedia, the non-profit organisation that operates Wikipedia.

That winner, its now been confirmed, is Thaddeus Osborne, a nuclear engineer from Virginia, USA, who enjoys exploring music theory and production in his spare time. Sounds used in his submission include those of turning book pages, keyboard clicks and a chiming synth. Check it out in the Tweet below.

Music has always been a huge part of my life and a way for me to travel the world from my small towns backyard, commented Osborne. Every piece of music transported me to a new place and taught me something new.

As a dedicated fan of Wikipedia, I strongly believe that the platforms commitment to reliable and free information is essential to our global success. By incorporating my sound, I hope to make Wikipedia even more accessible and engaging, enabling readers [and now listeners] to embark on their own journey of discovery and knowledge. With more answers and information at our fingertips, we can tackle big problems and create a brighter future for all.

Noble aims, for sure, and Zack McCune, Director of Brand at the Wikimedia Foundation, agrees that Osbornes 4-second snippet does a good job of capturing what Wikipedia is all about.

Were honoured by his contribution to the free knowledge movement and grateful to the selection committee and voters for choosing a sound that wonderfully represents free knowledge, he said in a statement.

As part of his prize, Osborne will receive $2,500 and a trip to a pro studio to re-record his sound logo for use on Wikipedia. You can check out all 10 of the final shortlisted The Sound of All Human Knowledge contest entries on the Wikimedia Commons (opens in new tab) website.

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It appears tech website CNET might not be the only platform experimenting with OpenAI's chatGPT and its incredible skills in writing articles.

What Happened: OpenAI's chatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that has taken the world by storm and attracted a $10 billion investment from Microsoft Corporation MSFT, seems to have impressed Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales too, although he has some problems with the way it works, reported Evening Standard.

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Already experts and netizens alike are marveling at chatGPT's ability to write decent pieces, be it poetry or an article, but they also agree that there are some significant risks associated with it.

Wales said the Wikipedia community is cautious about the existing AI models but also intrigued.

"I think we're still a way away from: ChatGPT, please write a Wikipedia entry about the empire state building', but I don't know how far away we are from that, certainly closer than I would have thought two years ago," he said.

He also shared concerns about chatGPT's "hallucinating" tendencies.

"It has a tendency to just make stuff up out of thin air, which is just really bad for Wikipedia that's just not OK."

Although achieving full AI authorship is not feasible in the short term, there are ongoing discussions at Wikipedia regarding the potential use of AI technology to enhance the encyclopedia in the coming months, the report noted.

Why It's Important: OpenAI released chatGPT for testing last year. Since then, people have been either awed or terrified by this technology. Debates about AI being the future and posing a threat to the human workforce have also escalated.

At the same time, tech icons like Bill Gates believe that the chatGPT invention is as big as the internet.

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"Supreme Court" and "Hate Speech" were trending on Twitter yesterday after the courtroom exchanges in the Court of Justice KM Joseph and Justice BV Nagarathna were widely discussed on social media.

It was reported that when Solicitor General Tushar Mehta pointed out the instances of alleged hate speech against Brahmins by DMK leader, Justice KM Joseph smiled and Solicitor General retorted by saying that it is not a matter to be laughed at.

Yesterday evening, the Wikipedia page of Justice KM Joseph was edited to add the sentence, Justice KM Joseph is a judge of the Supreme Court of India "nick named as smiling Judge for smiling at genocide call against Hindu Brahmins on the court floor".

The screenshot of the edited page was then shared on social media. The additions were then removed through multiple edits and the editing of the page has now been restricted by imposing a "semi-protection" status to prevent "disruption or vandalism from new or unregistered users".

Justice Joseph had also remarked that "action has an equal reaction" and that "people will react", when instances of the raising of slogans of "Sar Tan Se Juda" in different parts of the Country by members of the minority community and a clip of hate speech during a PFI rally in Kerala were pointed out before the Bench by the Solicitor General and the Counsel for an intervenor.

The Apex Court was considering an intervention application by Hindu front for Justice-Trust, an NGO from Uttar Pradesh. The application said, "Some recent instances of hate speeches, utterances and statements made against Hindus and Hindu religion by members of Muslim and Christian community are being placed on record in a summarized form".

In its application, the NGO has pointed out eight instances of beheading calls by members of the Muslim community (Sar Tan se Juda) and that "after such call actual incidents of beheading have taken place". The NGO has also pointed out other instances of hate speech directed against the Hindu community as a whole and against Brahmins.

The remarks of Justice Joseph resulted in a storm on social media with may expressing shock at the oral observations made by the highest court.

"Hate speech cant be pardoned because it is said by someone famous Great thread, where Indias Solicitor General Tushar Mehta shows examples of hate speech to Justice Joseph" tweeted Amit Malviya, the head of BJP's IT Cell.

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Aaron Rodgers is well known for his outbursts against the Chicago Bears after defeating the team in recent years. However, the quarterback is on the wrong end of a similar situation with the Detroit Lions after stumbling against the team twice in 2022.

The safety credited with changing the shape of the game, Kerby Joseph, has received plenty of praise from the anti-Rodgers camp.

The safety has received so much praise for his work that the Lions player is listed on Wikipedia as "the father of Aaron Rodgers." Here's how the page put it via Good Morning Football and Wikipedia:

Will the Detroit Lions win more games than the Packers in 2023?

One could argue that the Detroit Lions alone tanked the quarterback's season. Had he even gone .500 against the team, the Packers would have reached the playoffs and today's offseason drama may not have taken place. Instead, the Lions demolished the team's offense in 2022, winning by a combined score of 3525.

In the first matchup of 2022, the No. 12 threw for one touchdown and three interceptions as the team dropped their fifth game in a row. Then, between the first matchup and the second matchup, he looked more like himself, throwing for 11 touchdowns and four interceptions.

Heading into the game against Detroit, the team looked as dominant as ever. That said, at the same time, the Lions were riding their own late-season win streak. Despite missing the playoffs earlier that day due to outcomes in other games, they came to Green Bay ready to throw down.

The four-time MVP turned back into the version of himself from the first matchup in the second half, and threw a late interception that closed the game.

Assuming the deal with the New York Jets goes through, the last image of the quarterback in the minds of Packers fans would essentially be the interception.

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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield

Published in February 2023

The only time that I ever worked outside higher education was when I worked for Encyclopdia Britannica. If you are interested, that story is detailed in a blog post I wrote in 2010.

My professional connection to Britannica is why I couldnt wait to read Simon Garfields new book, All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia.

I recommend All the Knowledge in the World to even those who never worked for an encyclopedia company. Anyone fascinated by the origins, evolution and the ultimate mortality of print encyclopedias will love this book. Wikipedia enthusiasts, from casual consumers to dedicated contributors, will also gain much from reading the book.

While I am confident that my experience working for Britannica makes me biased, I have long believed that those of us in higher education can learn much from the story of encyclopedias.

When I went to work for Britannica, the brand currency of the company was incredibly strong. The first print edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica was published in 1768. Near the end of the 20th century, when I joined the company, Britannica felt solid, consequential and permanent as our oldest and most established of universities.

Today, wellyou know the story. The last print edition of Encyclopdia Britannica came out in 2010. Purchasing complete used print encyclopedia sets is possible for very little money.

One of the questions that Garfield asks in All the Knowledge in the World is how the print encyclopedia became extinct so rapidly. How could a product with so much cultural heft and brand legitimacy become obsolete so quickly?

Certainly, digitization was one element in the death of the print encyclopedia. Microsofts CD-ROM Encarta, built on the old Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia after Britannica refused to license its content, was creating competitive pressure for Britannica. But it was not until Wikipedia was launched in 2001 that the print encyclopedia was doomed to extinction.

All the Knowledge in the World is excellent at telling the long historical story of all encyclopedias, including those that predated Britannica. The book does a great job of detailing the 20th-century history of Britannica and the full story of Wikipedias creation, challenges and impact.

What is mostly absent from Garfields narrative is the inside story of how Britannica attempted to pivot to the digital age. Someone should write a book about how the company split itself into two divisions, one for Encyclopdia Britannica and one for Britannica.com. At the height of the first dot-com bubble, Britannica opened up all its content for free online in 1999. The site promptly crashed from demand that Britannicas servers couldnt handle.

In 2020, Britannica.com released maybe the worst Super Bowl ad of all time. (You can watch it here.)

What ultimately killed Britannica was not the transition from analog to digital. Or the internet. A free, ad-supported Britannica.com might have done really well. The reason why the cultural and brand value, not to mention monetary value, of Britannica today is a shadow of its former self is because of Wikipedia.

It turned out that a user-written and edited online encyclopedia is superior to a professionally written and edited online encyclopedia.

At the time of Wikipedias launch, nobody working at Britannica believed that that site would ever be a threat. How could it? Britannica had been investing in quality for well over 200 years.

Back in 2012, when The New York Times declared the Year of the MOOC, some within higher ed wondered if universities were having their own Wikipedia moment.

Having had a front-row seat to both the decline of the print encyclopedia and the birth of the massive open online course, I had my doubts.

But just because MOOCs failed to do to residential postsecondary education what Wikipedia did to the print encyclopedia does not mean that our campus-based universities are immune from existential threats.

So far, programs like UT Austins new $10,000 online master of science in artificial intelligence (MSAI) seem to be strengthening the residential-first institutions in which they are emerging.

What high-quality, low-cost scaled online degree programs will mean for the broader residential and online university ecosystem remains an open question.

If the history of the print encyclopedia tells us in higher education anything, it is that we should resist the urge to assume that we can fully predict our future.

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