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Learn about our new Intelligent Search beta feature and how it works. By using Intelligent Search, you acknowledge that it is a beta feature with evolving capabilities, and that provisional answers should always be verified against source documentation.
Intelligent Search is the name for aosphere's new natural language search beta function. Users can query aosphere's trusted legal analysis using natural language, and Intelligent Search provides a direct answer, plus links to the relevant sections of the underlying memo from local counsel.
Intelligent Search uses only information contained in aosphere's trusted legal analysis - it does not use information from the internet, which can be incorrect or out of date. The key sources of information used by Intelligent Search are the underlying memos from local counsel and the colour-coded reports (traffic light reports).
Intelligent Search is currently a beta and is still subject to further development and iteration. In particular, Intelligent Search is not currently directly aware of the daily updates published on aoslogin. We will be addressing this in a version 2 release in Autumn 2025, in the meantime please see "How does Intelligent Search deal with daily alerts updates?" for information on how the beta currently handles alerts.
When we built Intelligent Search, we prioritised accuracy and transparency.
Accuracy - we understand how important it is for the summary answers generated by Intelligent Search to be accurate. That's why:
The system will only propose an answer if it has a high degree of confidence,
An answer which has not been subject to "human-in-the-loop" approval is clearly labelled as "Provisional AI-Generated Answer", and
Our subject matter experts supervise the AI system and approve answers so that you can be sure that an answer which is labelled "Aosphere Approved" is a reasonable summary of the underlying memo.
Transparency - Intelligent Search cites the sections of the underlying memo that it has used in preparing an answer to a question, so users always know where the answer has come from.
AI is used in several ways in the Intelligent Search system:
A semantic-based AI query parser uses natural language processing to analyse the user's query to understand the user's query and intent.
AI analyses the parsed query and decides whether to respond to the question, or reject it as out-of-scope.
Currently, queries will be rejected if:
They relate to more than one jurisdiction. As the aosphere analysis is provided on a per jurisdiction basis, version 1 of Intelligent Search can deal only with questions about a single jurisdiction.
For example, "Do I need a DPO in Thailand" will be accepted, but "Which jurisdictions in APAC have DPO requirements" will be rejected.
Note: We are looking at handling queries that relate to multiple jurisdictions in future versions of Intelligent Search.
They relate to questions outside the scope of the relevant aosphere product.
For example, "Is there a confidentiality law in Australia" will be rejected by Intelligent Search for Data Privacy, as the question is not about the data privacy matters covered by the Data Privacy product.
Intelligent Search is aware of other features on the aoslogin platform that can assist with multi-jurisdictional questions, such as the compare function, trackers and apps, and will refer the user to these tools as appropriate.
AI identifies the sections of the underlying memo which are relevant to the query, summarises those sections into a short, direct answer to the question, and references those sections so that the sources of the direct answer are transparent, and the user can quickly access the underlying detail.
Alongside the search results, users will also be presented with related searches that may be of interest ("People also ask") and a glossary of relevant terms.
Intelligent Search uses generative AI to provide short, direct answers to user's questions. Intelligent Search will only offer a direct answer if it has a high degree of confidence in that answer (>90%), but generative AI can make mistakes and miss important nuance. To mitigate the risk of errors, the system:
Clearly labels a generative AI answer as a "Provisional AI-Generated Answer".
Clearly identifies, and provides links to, the relevant sections of the underlying memo which have been used as the basis for the Provisional AI-Generated Answer.
Users should always check the underlying memorandum when placing emphasis on a Provisional AI-Generated answer.
Provisional AI-Generated Answers are passed into a review system for subsequent review by our team of subject matter experts. Our team can approve and amend Provisional AI-Generated Answers to ensure that the answer is a reasonable summary of the underlying memo - when this is done, answers become "Aosphere Approved".
If substantially the same query is subsequently asked, then Intelligent Search will return the Aosphere Approved answer.
Users can also provide feedback directly into the system and any issues will then be addressed by our experts.
Intelligent Search is not currently aware of alerts and considers analysis in the underlying memos which is up to date as at the publication date of the relevant memo, so users should also check the daily alerts on aoslogin. We are working on an Autumn 2025 update of Intelligent Search so that the system will be directly aware of all the developments contained within the aosphere daily alerts.
Currently our AI Regulation and Governance content is not within scope of the Intelligent Search, but this is on our roadmap for future updates.
