Ansari: Practical experiences with an LLM-based Islamic Assistant

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Ansari:
Practical Experiences with a
LLM-based Islamic Assistant
Dr M Waleed Kadous
Chief Scientist, Anyscale

Motivation
Generative AI technologies will revolutionize many aspects of our lives
How will they change our experience of ...

Plan
- The LLM Revolution
- What is Ansari?
- Ansari Architecture
- What is Ansari capable of?
- How do people use Ansari?...

The Large Language Model Revolution
- Large Language Models
- Use a new AI deep learning architecture called Transformers
...

What is Ansari?
Ansari is an LLM-based Islamic assistant that helps answers questions about
Islam
https://ansari.chat (Dem...

Chat based large language models
- Conversation presented as a set of messages.
- 3 roles:
- System prompt: Defines person...

Architecture
Ansari Backend
System
Prompt
LLM
(GPT-4)
Tool:
Qur’an
Search
Tool: Hadith
Search
Ansari Frontend
Ansari.chat
...

System Prompt excerpt (the personality of Ansari)
You are a helpful assistant. Your name is Ansari. You help Muslims becom...

Example walkthrough
User: Are corals mentioned in the Qur’an?
Ansari: search_quran(“coral”)
Kalemat API:
Returns list of 1...

What can Ansari do?
Complete list with examples: walee.dk/ansarican
- Answer Qur’an and Hadith questions
- Tell you what d...

Current state of Ansari
- First released in June 2023, with continuous improvement
- Word of mouth only
- Experiment perio...

What questions do people ask?
- Extracted 2500 unique, short questions
- Used an LLM to put them into categories

Other?
- Summarize Islam for me
- ‫ﺑﺎﻹﻧﺟﻠﯾزي‬ ‫ﻣﺳﺗﺣﺎﺿﺔ‬
- Do you know black seed oil?
- Meaning of dreaming of a lion
- si...

Qualitative feedback

Feedback (Positive)
“I used Ansari whilst at Hajj. Although there were a lot of Mashaikh around, it was
a good tool to get...

Feedback (Positive)
“I love how Ansari went into the root word Rabb ‫”رب‬

Feedback (Positive)
“I really liked this interaction – it gave an explanation of its reason.”

Feedback (Mixed)
IERA (Da’wah organization)
- Sent 200 Da’wah questions
- Generated answers
- Under review

IERA Assessment
Positive:
… this is definitely headed in the right direction mashallah.
1. It is great that the questions,...

Feedback (Negative)
‫اﻟﺗﺎﻟﯾﺔ‬ ‫اﻟﻣﺣﺎوﻻت‬ ‫ﺣﺎوﻟت‬ ‫وﻗد‬ ‫اﻷﺧطﺎء‬ ‫ﻣن‬ ‫اﻟﻛﺛﯾر‬ ‫ﻓوﺟدت‬ ‫اﻟﻣﯾراث‬ ‫ﺗوزﯾﻊ‬ ‫ﺣﻘل‬ ‫ﻓﻲ‬ ansari ...

Feedback (Negative)
“When I studied with ‘ulema, before I was granted an ijaaza, they didn’t just check
my knowledge, they...

Current area: Evaluation of Ansari’s correctness
- Most recent work
- 323 Islamic multiple choice questions provided by Dr...

‫ﻣﺳﯾﺣﯾﺔ؟‬ ‫ﻣن‬ ‫اﻟزواج‬ ‫ﺣﻛم‬ ‫ﻣﺎ‬
Ansari said “‫”ﯾﺟوز‬, but the “correct” answer was “‫اﻷﺣﯾﺎن‬ ‫ﺑﻌض‬ ‫ﻓﻲ‬ ‫”ﯾﺟوز‬
Ansari’...

?‫واﻟﻔﺿﺔ‬ ‫اﻟذھب‬ ‫أواﻧﻲ‬ ‫ﻓﻲ‬ ‫اﻷﻛل‬ ‫ﺣﻛم‬ ‫ﻣﺎ‬
Ansari said “‫ﻣطﻠﻘﺎ‬ ‫”ﺣرام‬, but the “correct” answer was “‫ﻣطﻠﻘﺎ‬ ‫”ﺣﻼل...

What’s next for Ansari?
- More validation with high quality Islamic exams (working with Darul Qaasim)
- Question: Can you ...

Concluding remarks
- Ansari has seen a very positive response from the community
- Questions remain, however, about how to...

Special Thanks
- Allah (SWT) for giving me this opportunity
- Amin Ahmad (Founder of Vectara) for outstanding technical ad...

Thank you!
Try out ansari: https://ansari.chat
Source code: https://github.com/waleedkadous/ansari-backend
Feedback: feedb...

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