Fig. 5: Flow diagram represents the structure of the BBNJ Question-Answering Bot application. | npj Ocean Sustainability

Fig. 5: Flow diagram represents the structure of the BBNJ Question-Answering Bot application.

From: AI language models could both help and harm equity in marine policymaking

Fig. 5

When the user answers a question, the program first searches for relevant passages in a database of BBNJ-related documents. It sends the users' question along with the passages to a ChatGPT server in the cloud, and then displays ChatGPT's reply. At the time of writing, this is a very common design pattern for AI applications that interact with external documents.

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