'RDF and the future of LLMs' by Luke VanderHart

RDF is an important data paradigm, and highly influential to the design of both Clojure and Datomic. We will explore its design, philosophy, and yes, its etymology. And we will learn how its conceptual framework makes it a uniquely effective tool for interacting with the new hotness: Large Language Models.

Can LLMs actually be useful, beyond the hype? Under what conditions can we use them in our data systems in an ethical and reliable manner? RDF can, perhaps, provide answers.

Recorded Oct 24, 2024 at Clojure/conj 2024 in Alexandria, VA

[witstartful]

Great talk. Thanks Luke. Please get bigger than OpenAI and stay principled 🙏

[tryI]

Cool stuff! I hadn't heard of RDF before and had been reinventing a subset of it lately. I'm in the process of doing what you mentioned at the end, with getting facts (and more) out of LLMs into a RDF like format!

[apestogetherstrong]

At around 15 minutes in I also thought of Formal Logic. Very interesting to see if automated proof verification is possible and if dialectical arguments hold or not

[mgetommy]

I hope he posts an update to his research somewhere