===Natural Language Queries to Wikidata: A Naive Prototype===
[[File:Architecture - Ask Wikidata SMWCon 2023.png|alt=Application architecture|thumb|architecture]] Robert Timms - Sr. Software Engineer Wikibase Suite, Wikimedia Deutschland gave [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023/Natural_Language_Queries_to_Wikidata:_A_Na%C3%AFve_Prototype a talk] ([https://github.com/rti/askwikidata code] [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YgDmcvoXaqnYdRyX5RxewVkeioEJ92nb8Sfb_halBsM slides] [https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1yRZshpNj0kXwY0XuUYw5ziqjw_RffxH- try it]) about querying Wikibase with an LLM. Slides 9-22 go from the application architecture to the 'tada' moment.
Not the goal of the talk, but he revealed some of the key drawbacks of using "AI" in the first place:
#[[File:Architecture - Ask Wikidata SMWCon 2023.png|alt=Application architecture|thumb|architecture]]Outdated information
#Prone to hallucinations
#No sources (AI doesn't tell you how or why it claims to be authoritative.)