To help visitors to the Microsoft Research website get a sense of the research presented at NeurIPs 2024 by Microsoft research teams, we have created a beta AI experience to accompany our typical event web page. This experience uses Azure Open AI and GPT 4.0 to comb through more than 100 research papers from MSR teams to identify common themes, novel techniques and emerging areas of focus by researchers exploring artificial intelligence.
The goal of the AI experience was to try to marry the good orientation and wayfinding a typical web application provides with the intelligence and flexibility an LLM offers to explore information on your own terms. Typical AI chat interfaces offer a few suggested prompts, but offers a “blank slate” experience that puts the onus on the user to figure out what the chat experience knows and doesn’t know.
Rather than start with a blinking cursor, you’ll see the page starts with an overview of some of the themes that emerged from the research presented at NeurIPs. All of the text you see was generated by an LLM. Some of it was staged and cached for performance reasons and some is spontaneously generated based on user input.
Powering this experience is a structured dataset, again generated by AI. The dataset was generated by a process we’re calling an “information warehouse”, where we provide a “data recipe” to the LLM and it uses that to read through the 100+ papers to create structured summaries of each paper, look for connections between papers and generate a taxonomy and multi-document summaries of each research area to help orient the user and allow them to explore the work not from paper to paper, but by a set of research topics and subtopics generated by the LLM.
We hope that these changes help provide a more reliable experience for people visiting the page, and provide better wayfinding and orientation that lets you better understand the trends and emerging topics that the latest research from Microsoft is focused on.
And again, this experience is very much an experiment. The text is all AI generated so may be somewhat inconsistent, and the user experience is something new, trying to marry the typical AI chat with more traditional web navigation and UX elements. More experiments are ahead, so we value any feedback or suggestions you might have.
Thank you,
The Microsoft Research Web team
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