Hi everyone,
This is a friendly reminder that the last Research Showcase of the year
starts in about 30 min (17:30 UTC). Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1702402200>. It's a panel on *"*A year of
Generative AI: *Future directions for Wikimedia,"* and you can join us at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnAsD7-hZpo.
*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/> *
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*Silvia Gutiérrez* (she/her)
Senior Program Officer, Libraries
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>