I don’t get the hype for AI when you have Wiki. When they don’t know something, my students are like “let’s ask chat GPT” and I’m always “No, let’s look at Wikipedia”. Truly the greatest website and the proof that we could do anything if we decided to work together.
The LLMs are often paraphrasing Wikipedia in my experience, to the extent the Wiki Foundation is begging AI companies to top scraping and use the API to help bear some of the costs, because the machines are starting to represent a big hosting strain on them. Wikipedia is also rather unusual among top websites in still hosting stuff themselves on servers they own, rather than contract out to AWS or another middle man.
I don’t get the hype for AI when you have Wiki. When they don’t know something, my students are like “let’s ask chat GPT” and I’m always “No, let’s look at Wikipedia”. Truly the greatest website and the proof that we could do anything if we decided to work together.
The LLMs are often paraphrasing Wikipedia in my experience, to the extent the Wiki Foundation is begging AI companies to top scraping and use the API to help bear some of the costs, because the machines are starting to represent a big hosting strain on them. Wikipedia is also rather unusual among top websites in still hosting stuff themselves on servers they own, rather than contract out to AWS or another middle man.