Arqus webinar series "9 Months, 9 Universities"
Generative Search and Biases: Challenges and Opportunities of a New Information Ecology
"9 Months, 9 Universities" is a series of guest lectures focussing on specific topics related to language and culture. The series is aimed at students as well as early career researchers and lecturers.
In the new webinar of "9 Months, 9 Universities", Prof Martin Potthast, Hessian.AI Chair for Deep Semantic Learning at the University of Kassel, will focus on the role of generative AI in retrieving information on the internet, known as information retrieval (IR).
IR is at a turning point in its long history: texts and images that used to be retrieved exclusively from collections of existing documents can now be synthesised on demand. Thanks to recent advances in the field of generative artificial intelligence in general and Large Language Models (LLM) in particular, searchers can expect to receive answers in the form of text or multimedia documents in the future instead of having to manually check retrieved documents for relevant parts.
In the webinar, Prof Martin Potthast will also address the new challenges arising from this shift and emphasise the need for a new framework to research, develop and evaluate these technologies.
Participants can join the live stream of the webinar for free via the Arqus YouTube channel.
Author: Steven Rupp