Dr Taha Yasseri
Former Senior Research Fellow
Taha Yasseri analyses large-scale transactional data to understand human dynamics, collective behaviour, collective intelligence and machine intelligence.
Recorded:
3 Dec 2019
3 Dec 2019
Speakers:
With Dr Taha Yasseri and Turi Munthe
Filming venue:
<p>Seminar Room, Oxford Internet Institute</p> <p>1 St Giles</p> <p>Oxford</p> <p>OX1 3JS</p>
<p>Seminar Room, Oxford Internet Institute</p> <p>1 St Giles</p> <p>Oxford</p> <p>OX1 3JS</p>
Parli is an encyclopaedia of opinion, structured as a wiki and enabled by AI. On the premise that there is a finite number of common opinions and arguments around any subject, we seek to ‘map’ them all. We are not a debate site. Our objective is to build an internet-scale media platform showcasing all opinions in a calm, descriptive voice, and to build a powerful back-end data service to help us understand the very nature of opinion. Our social networks – Facebook, YouTube and Twitter – accelerate and monetise online polarisation. We believe Parli can play a major role in calming factionalism by helping its readers understand their own opinions and those of others. A prototype grant from Google’s DNI built the platform we now have.
Speakers
Turi Munthe
Turi Munthe is a media entrepreneur and investor. He founded Demotix, the world’s largest network of photojournalists, selling to Bill Gates’ Corbis in 2013. He is a partner at North Base Media.