A Tutorial of the Genie Knowledge Assistant

The Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Lab, with sponsorship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), is organizing an workshop focused on the concept of a public AI Assistant to World Wide Knowledge (WWK) and its implications for the future of the Free Web.

At this workshop, we will offer an open tutorial on using the resources available on WWKnowledge, contributing sources, and building with the open Genie Agent Framework.

The event will highlight the OVAL lab's Public AI Assistant (https://WWKnowledge.org), developed in collaboration with Wikimedia, Columbia School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Stanford Center for African Studies, and Stanford Big Local News. This assistant, already used by 200,000 users across 175 countries, supports natural language queries of Wikidata and FEC data. It has been applied in education and research, leading to revisions in African History and investigative reports. Additionally, WWKnowledge.org, powered by the Genie Agent Framework, allows for rapid expansion with new knowledge corpora and datasets through global contributions.