Denny Vrandečić - Head of Special Projects at Wikimedia Foundation

from Accessibility and Gen AI Podcast · host Joe Devon, Eamon McErlean, Denny Vrandečić

OUTLINE: 00:00 Opening Teaser 00:46 Introduction 01:34 What's The Relationship Between Wikimedia and Wikipedia? 02:02 Denny's Professional Background & Current Role 05:32 What is The Semantic Web? 07:58 Original Proposal For The Web vs The Semantic Web 14:12 When Denny Locked Sir Tim Berners-Lee, The Inventor of The Web, In His Car 15:09 What Is A Knowledge Graph? 19:57 About The New Project, Abstract Wikipedia 30:06 Using Functions vs LLMs for Language Translations 40:19 Using AI For Accessibility 44:14 World Models vs. Large Language Models 51:25 How To Support Wikipedia & Contact Denny 54:13 Wrap Up -- EPISODE LINKS: Wikipedia https://www.wikipedia.org Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org Abstract Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia Contact Denny Vrandečić https://mas.to/@vrandecic Denny Vrandečić on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/vrandecic/ Denny Vrandečić on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/vrandezo

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Hosts Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon interview Denny Vrandečić, Head of Special Projects at Wikimedia Foundation. They discuss how structured data and knowledge graphs can revolutionize digital information. Denny details the development his current project, Abstract Wikipedia, which aims to create articles using language-independent identifiers. By using symbolic logic rather than the probabilistic methods of Large Language Models, this system allows a single edit to propagate across over 300 languages simultaneously. Ultimately, the goal is to make knowledge more accessible by allowing it to be represented in various reading levels and formats.

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