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A bit related: AI companies distilled the whole Web into LLMs to make computers smart, why humans can't do the same to make the best possible new Wikipedia with

A bit related: AI companies distilled the whole Web into LLMs to make computers smart, why humans can't do the same to make the best possible new Wikipedia with some copyrighted bits to make kids supersmart? Why kids are worse than AI companies and have to bum around?)

horseradish7k 1y ago
we did that and still do. people just don't buy encyclopedias that much nowadays
- antonkar 1y ago
  Imagine taking the whole Web, removing spam, duplicates, bad explanations It will be the free new Wikipedia+ to learn anything in the best way possible, with the best graphs, interactive widgets, etc What LLMs have for free but humans for some reason don’t In some places it is possible to use copyrighted materials to educate if not directly for profit
  - literalAardvark 1y ago
    Love it when Silicon Valley reinvents encyclopedias
    - antonkar 1y ago
      The proposed project is a non profit, I don’t think it can be a for profit legally (it didn’t stop AI companies, though)
  - vunderba 1y ago
    > Imagine taking the whole Web, removing spam, duplicates, bad explanations Uh huh. Now imagine the collective amount of work this would require above and beyond the already overwhelmed number of volunteer staff at Wikipedia. Curation is ALWAYS the bugbear of these kinds of ambitious projects. Interactivity aside, it sounds like you want the Encyclopedia Brittanica. What made it so incredible for its time was the staggeringly impressive roster of authors behind the articles. In older editions, you could find the entry on magic written by Harry Houdini, the physics section definitively penned by Einstein himself, etc.
  - LeoPanthera 1y ago
    > Imagine taking the whole Web Gimme a few hours > removing spam, duplicates, bad explanations I'll need a research team and five years. https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/
QuadmasterXLII 1y ago
I think thats a library?

horseradish7k 1y ago

we did that and still do. people just don't buy encyclopedias that much nowadays

antonkar 1y ago
Imagine taking the whole Web, removing spam, duplicates, bad explanations It will be the free new Wikipedia+ to learn anything in the best way possible, with the best graphs, interactive widgets, etc What LLMs have for free but humans for some reason don’t In some places it is possible to use copyrighted materials to educate if not directly for profit
- literalAardvark 1y ago
  Love it when Silicon Valley reinvents encyclopedias
  - antonkar 1y ago
    The proposed project is a non profit, I don’t think it can be a for profit legally (it didn’t stop AI companies, though)
- vunderba 1y ago
  > Imagine taking the whole Web, removing spam, duplicates, bad explanations Uh huh. Now imagine the collective amount of work this would require above and beyond the already overwhelmed number of volunteer staff at Wikipedia. Curation is ALWAYS the bugbear of these kinds of ambitious projects. Interactivity aside, it sounds like you want the Encyclopedia Brittanica. What made it so incredible for its time was the staggeringly impressive roster of authors behind the articles. In older editions, you could find the entry on magic written by Harry Houdini, the physics section definitively penned by Einstein himself, etc.
- LeoPanthera 1y ago
  > Imagine taking the whole Web Gimme a few hours > removing spam, duplicates, bad explanations I'll need a research team and five years. https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/

QuadmasterXLII 1y ago

I think thats a library?