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Videos Mentioning Wikipedia

Susan Schneider - Can AI Become Conscious?
Closer To Truth
Example of data sources referenced in relation to how AI like GPT draws on information.

All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
All-In Podcast
Source of headlines used to describe the goals of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Balaji Srinivasan — How to Start a New Country
Tim Ferriss
Online encyclopedia mentioned as the source of an article on Frank Sinatra.

Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #240
Lex Fridman
An online encyclopedia mentioned as a successful example of technology enabling access to knowledge and potentially leading to a better world.

Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
Latent Space
Cited as an example of a distributed platform model, contrasting with monolithic encyclopedias, where anyone can contribute.

How to Unlock Your Potential, Motivation & Unique Abilities | Dr. Adam Grant
Andrew Huberman
Online encyclopedia mentioned as a source of information when exploring curiosity gaps.

James Clear, Atomic Habits — Strategies for Mastering Habits
Tim Ferriss
Online encyclopedia used by Tim Ferriss to find information and quotes about books.

Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law
Ali Abdaal
A source of factual information cited in the video for details on Charlie Gard's condition and the case.

This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
Latent Space
Accessed in a simulated universe where octopuses are sentient, showcasing Web Sim's ability to generate custom content based on specific conditions.

MIT 6.S094: Introduction to Deep Learning and Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman
Online encyclopedia used as a dataset to train character-level recurrent neural networks for text generation.

E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
All-In Podcast
An example of crowdsourced citizen journalism, criticized for biased 'bios of living people' (BLPs) sections that are easily weaponized by interest groups.

Jim Chapman: Overcoming Failure Anxiety, Finding Love & Life-Changing Therapy | E78
The Diary Of A CEO
The online encyclopedia where a fan created a page for Steven Bartlett, impressing him with their initiative and leading to a job offer.

Breaking down the OG GPT Paper by Alec Radford
Latent Space
Cited as a large source of unlabeled text that can be leveraged for unsupervised learning.
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[Paper Club] BERT: Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
Latent Space
The English version of Wikipedia was used as a training dataset for BERT, comprising 800 million words.

The Vagabond’s Way, Tactics for Immersive Travel, Pilgrimages, and More — Rolf Potts
Tim Ferriss
An online encyclopedia that Craig Mod used to download information for offline access during a pilgrimage.

A Comprehensive Overview of Large Language Models - Latent Space Paper Club
Latent Space
A popular online encyclopedia used as a data source for training large language models.

Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
Latent Space
Used as a data source for testing the ReAct framework, involving interaction with external knowledge.

Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School 2012
Y Combinator
An online encyclopedia, mentioned as an example of a service that could be supported by a smaller amount of user sharing compared to a social network.

Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221
Lex Fridman
A website mentioned as an example of accessible information on the internet. However, its 'facts' are considered projections of deeper, unstated common sense rules by Lenat.

David Ferrucci: The Story of IBM Watson Winning in Jeopardy | AI Podcast Clips
Lex Fridman
An online encyclopedia that was part of the knowledge corpus used by Watson to answer Jeopardy questions.

Your Brain's Logic & Function | Dr. David Berson
Andrew Huberman
An online encyclopedia recommended as a resource for learning about neuroscience and visual function.

Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #219
Lex Fridman
Knuth mentions that examples of Masyu puzzles can be found on Wikipedia.

Jason Calacanis: Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship | Lex Fridman Podcast #161
Lex Fridman
Online encyclopedia cited as an example of a distributed system that was initially thought impossible but succeeded in changing the world.

Beta-Alanine, Training Frequency, and Strength for Hypertrophy (Episode 59)
Stronger By Science
A website used as a source for information about the discontinuation of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.