The Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Lab, with sponsorship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), organized an invitation-only workshop focused on the concept of a public AI assistant to worldwide knowledge and its implications for the future of the free web.
Genie can take any topic and write a full article from a given corpus, complete with references. Genie simulates users with different perspectives to ask pertinent questions on the topic, retrieve information, review it, and ask further questions. Users can interact with the experts in a roundtable discussion to explore their topics of interest; this new paradigm is shown to be much more effective than simple question answering.
Case studies:
An internet subset (as approved by Wikipedia); Semantic Scholar. Over 300,000 users have requested 500,000 topics from lifestyles to scientific research. (https://storm.genie.stanford.edu)
References:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14207; https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15232
Speaker:
Yucheng Jiang
This workshop was recorded on February 14, 2025 at Stanford University.