SMWCon 2023 - Keynote by Prof. Markus Krötzsch - Semantics, Wikis, and AI
Channel: Semantic MediaWiki
Date: 2024-01-18

Generative AI and large-language models are the most prominent of many current developments that force us to rethink: not just the implementations and technology stacks used in practice, but also the whole endeavour of human knowledge management as such. 

Semantic Wikis were born from the optimistic fusion of two influential movements of the early 21st century: Wikipedia and the Semantic Web. Each was an early forebear of ideas that shape the Web until today: community, explicit representation, and -- their biggest joint ideal -- open knowledge for all to share and contribute to. The efforts of bringing these ideas into beneficial agreement have led to Semantic MediaWiki and, further on, to Wikidata.

In spite of many success stories, however, the future of these approaches and their underlying ideas is not written.

Generative AI and large-language models are the most prominent of many current developments that force us to rethink: not just the implementations and technology stacks used in practice, but also the whole endeavour of human knowledge management as such.

In this talk, I will provide a personal perspective on the origins and principles of semantic wikis, and some of the key challenges that lie ahead in managing knowledge. 

SMWCon Fall 2023 - Semantic MediaWiki Conference - MediaWiki in the age of AI -  https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023