Arqus welcomes academics and students to the ninth installment of the 9 Months, 9 Universities webinar series: “Generative Search and Biases: Challenges and Opportunities of a New Information Ecology.” Tune in to the live broadcast on the Arqus YouTube channel on 18th June 2024 at 12:00 CEST.
Information retrieval is once again 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 synthesized on query. Thanks to recent advances in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general and Large Language Models (LLMs) in particular, searchers can expect to be relieved of the manual task of identifying the relevant parts of retrieved documents and instead receive answers in the form of text or multimedia documents. This upheaval runs parallel to the perceived deterioration in the quality of results from traditional web search engines. For years, social media users have been complaining about the low relevance of search results from major search engines.
In the new 9 Months 9 Universities webinar, Professor Martin Potthast, Hessian.AI Chair for Deep Semantic Learning at the University of Kassel, will explore the role of generative AI in the renaissance of information retrieval. He will also delve into the new challenges it poses, emphasizing the need for a new framework to research, develop and evaluate these technologies.
Further information can be found here.