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Is Wikipedia still a source number one when it comes to information or... ?
Remember those times when we were at high school or uni and were told off by professors that we shouldn't have Wikipedia as a source of information because it is open-sourced and "not trustworthy".
(However, from my experience, it is not so easy to contribute information to Wikipedia with all that management by moderators. 😃) But that is not important now.
Do you consider Wikipedia or ChatGPT (other large language models) to be a source of information No. 1?
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Udaya Sri
I haven’t used Wikipedia in a long time, I think these days, most of us just go with LLMs.
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@udaya_sri What LLM / LLM-based service would you recommend as Wikipedia alternative? Does it link to the sources?
I have a bit of academic background, so for me, research papers and official documents are the most credible sources of information for professional purposes. Wikipedia could be a good starting point, especially that you can check cited sources. I don't trust LLMs much, as they have a tendency to hallucinate. In every case, just don't take anything at face value.
@katia_yakovleva What LLM / LLM-based service would you recommend as Wikipedia alternative?
Looking back, it was so dumb that schools discouraged Wikipedia. They should have taught us that it can be used as a starting point to find original sources.
Wikipedia is a lot more trustworthy than AI now too 🤣
I've began to use LLMs much more frequently these days, but find that I still resort to Wikipedia to double check my info.
Wikipedia!
From my experience, Wikipedia is very often the best starting point to get information, by far. Of course, I do check the sources when I need to be certain.
I don't have much experience with LLM-based services, so I would be interested what people consider the best "LLM-based Wikipedia alternative" (must be able to link to the sources!)