[Wiki-research-l] Re: [Wikimedia Research Showcase] December 12 at 17:30 UTC

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/>