Please help us build a trustworthy SCORAI AI platform
Valerie Brachya
Although AI is criticized for its huge energy requirements and impacts on the environment, and for its lack of verified reliable outputs, the indications are that it is changing the way people seek out information (e.g. via Google’s AI overview or ChatGPT), use Google search and that people are using the AI overview without following up the sources and websites. AI is also increasingly used in environmental governance and negotiation processes. We are therefore considering how to develop a pilot specialized AI for the SCORAI website which would provide knowledge based and reliable answers to queries on sustainable consumption.
As a first step, we are building a pilot specialized AI, which is already available on the website (You are invited to use it). The platform called Buddy is being made available to SCORAI by a non-profit, non-governmental organization in Germany, ZTM, whose prime interest is in medical knowledge. Its answers to medical enquiries are based on specialized expert medical knowledge and provide a more trustworthy result than the general AI platforms.
Our use of the Buddy platform would require uploading a knowledge base. Some knowledge is already available (such as the Vocabulary Book and materials on the website) but that needs to be expanded.
We would like to provide the SCORAI AI with further expert knowledge and then test its responses to prompts,comparing the results of the specialized Buddy AI with those of a general AI, on such grounds as depth of understanding, reliability of the sources used, and its ability to frame further research questions relevant to sustainable consumption.
To do this, we need your help and cooperation.
We ask everyone to make as much knowledge available as possible to the SCORAI AI by uploading pdfs or links to websites to the knowledge folder at the following link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nCxmWn4mqEiRNcCbb7BjgkHBH8W7VbjF?usp=drive_link
The more our AI knows, the better it will respond to prompts and hopefully assist in suggesting further questions for research.
Thank you for your cooperation
The SCORAI website AI team: Tom Smith, Robert Rattle, Robert Orzanna, Valerie Brachya