Public AI Assistant to Worldwide Knowledge - Writing Research Articles with Full Citations

This workshop recording from Stanford University explores the development of Genie, a public AI assistant designed to write comprehensive research articles with full citations. Learn how the Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Lab, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Stanford HAI, is revolutionizing knowledge access through AI. Discover how Genie simulates users with diverse perspectives to generate questions, retrieve information, review content, and facilitate deeper exploration of topics. The presentation showcases how Genie can produce complete articles from given corpora with proper references, demonstrating a more effective paradigm than traditional question-answering systems. Explore real-world applications using an internet subset and Semantic Scholar, which has already served over 300,000 users requesting 500,000 topics ranging from lifestyle to scientific research. Speaker Yucheng Jiang presents this groundbreaking work recorded at Stanford University on February 14, 2025.