Hi all,
The Research Showcase panel on *"*A year of Generative AI: *Future
directions for Wikimedia"* is starting in about 1 hour. Please join us at
.
On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 12:04 AM Kinneret Gordon <kgordon(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi All,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Tuesday, December 12, at 9:30 AM PST
/ 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1702402200>.
This is a special showcase featuring a panel titled *"*A year of Generative AI:
*Future directions for Wikimedia". *You can find more information on this showcase
below.
You can watch via the YouTube stream:
https://youtube.com/live/UnAsD7-hZpo?feature=share
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtube.com/live/UnAsD7-hZpo?feature%3Dshare&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1702028854564402&usg=AOvVaw3BBBB2tCP8X-Sli34Ch0JU>.
As usual, you can join the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes
live.
*This December marks the one-year anniversary of ChatGPT with the resulting public
interest in generative AI and growing research focus on practical uses of large language
models. There has been much discussion about how these generative models might disrupt the
Wikimedia projects but also prototyping to see where they might be useful. To discuss what
we've learned in the past year and what opportunities ahead are being enabled by
research, we bring together a panel of four folks: Isaac Johnson (senior research
scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation) will be the moderator and the three panelists are
User:Barkeep49 [1], Maryana Pinchuk [2], and Robert West [3] to bring perspectives from
the volunteer, product, and research communities.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Barkeep49
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Barkeep49>
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MPinchuk_(WMF)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MPinchuk_(WMF)>
[3]
https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/ <https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/> *
Looking forward to seeing you there!
--
Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>