Ross AI-xplorer

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Ross IT is developing an AI chat assistant named Ross AI-xplorer that integrates data from Michigan Ross public websites and supplemental Google Drive documents with varied content permissions. This new user experience will allow the Ross community to find publicly available Michigan Ross related information in an easier and more intuitive way by asking questions to an AI driven chat bot that will provide a more natural way of locating information.

Most websites, including public Ross websites, offer an XML-based sitemap for SEO and search engine crawling. These sitemaps and supplementary data from Google Drive serve as the primary data sources for Ross AI-xplorer. Additional data sources in Google Drive help to refine responses to make them more accurate. As a result, Ross IT is building a chatbot that assists the Ross community in helping to answer users' questions and locate additional information.

Ross IT continues to explore ways to manage, maintain, and update these data sources during the development process to ensure relevance and accuracy. As Maizey evolves, Ross IT aims to streamline the management of data sources, automate updates, and provide up-to-date information.

Category

Current trends/topics/projects

Areas of Focus

  • Knowledge

Objectives

We aim to show how existing website infrastructure and available features can be used to locate & collate information and train large language models on already available public information. In addition to improving results by manipulating keywords, phrases, and information from internal documents in shared cloud storage to deliver more accurate results to community members in a more natural questions and answers format.

In addition to improving the management of available data sources by validation and automation, contribute to future Maizey tool updates with improved management features for data sources, such as, but not limited to, direct crawling of XML sitemaps with error reporting or the ability to skip invalid URLs.

Collaborators

  • Kerry Flynn, Chief Information Officer, Ross Business School / Ross IT
  • Cheryl Sobkow, Director of Support Services, Ross Business School / Ross IT
  • Sheetal Sonar, App Programmer/Analyst Lead, Ross Business School / Ross IT
  • Don DuChateau II, UI Design Engineer Sr. & Web Development, Ross Business School / Ross IT