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Re:Wikifunctions by danbruc on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:55PM (#36934005)
It's a semantic triple [1] - subject, predicate, object - made out of Wikidata IDs. Some common ones one will quickly memorize and start to recognize if one works with Wikidata.

Q42 is Douglas Adams [2], P31 is instance of [3], Q5 is human [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_triple

[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42

[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31

[4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5

Re:Wikifunctions by lanstin on Sunday July 30, 2023 @03:23PM (#36934953)
Fascinating. I had no idea people are still working on this sweetly optimistic project, like the architects writing a catalog of data taxonomies but for the unfenced territory of humanities knowledge. Sort of a modern Principia Mathematica with the Gödel of GPT4 waiting to blow it away.

Still 42 for Douglas Adams manually assigned token is a nice touch.

Re:Wikifunctions by brimwats on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:24PM (#36949057)
much of the AI projects would not really be possible without linked data, so it seems a bit silly to call it optimistic. the two are connected
Re:Wikifunctions by vrandecic on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:03PM (#36950606)
I have a half hour YouTube video on that topic, maybe you'll find it interesting, but likely too long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqYBx2gB6vA
Re:Wikifunctions by lanstin on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @01:17AM (#36967212)
It was interesting. I don’t think cheap matters much in a world:where compute is still getting rapidly cheaper. Being certain is good, but the throwmtons of data i to massive models keeps beating everything else. I do think the models need to get some self doubt built in some how but I don’t think the data catalog will be more than post NOC fact checking. Fun times tho.
Re:Wikifunctions by lanstin on Monday August 07, 2023 @01:26PM (#37037614)
Edited: It was interesting. I don’t think cheap matters much in a world where compute is still getting rapidly cheaper. Being certain is good, but the throw tons of data into massive models keeps beating everything else. I do think the models need to get some self doubt built in some how but I don’t think the data catalog will be more than post hoc fact checking. Fun times tho. (My mom was an editor, she'd be horrified.)