I support Wikipedia. They do great work. AI systems can be complementary, because they've always been a raw source of information that requires your own research. People trust writers and bloggers to do that for them, and they trust Wikipedia to curate the consensus of books and blogs. So nothing would fundamentally change. The same people would simply be empowered with the next generation of tools. More precise and accurate ones that help them do their jobs better.
Yes, building a better system outside Wikipedia might be pretty great too.
LLM’s pretend to be general purpose, but maybe optimizing for code autocomplete versus searching over a knowledge graph are two different things and might end up as different subsystems.
Or maybe they’re just different kinds of training data? Like, strip the author data from the code (for autocomplete) but then use it to generate author pages to train on.
