The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) and conversational assistants necessitates dynamic, scalable, and configurable conversational datasets for training and evaluation. These datasets must accommodate diverse user interaction modes, including text and voice, each presenting unique modeling challenges. Knowledge Graphs (KGs), with their structured and evolving nature, offer an ideal foundation for current and precise knowledge. Although human-curated KG-based conversational datasets exist, they struggle to keep pace with the rapidly changing user information needs. We present ConvKGYarn, a scalable method for generating up-to-date and configurable conversational KGQA datasets. Qualitative psychometric analyses confirm our method can generate high-quality datasets rivaling a popular conversational KGQA dataset while offering it at scale and covering a wide range of human-interaction configurations. We showcase its utility by testing LLMs on diverse conversations - exploring model behavior on conversational KGQA sets with different configurations grounded in the same KG fact set. Our results highlight the ability of ConvKGYarn to improve KGQA foundations and evaluate parametric knowledge of LLMs, thus offering a robust solution to the constantly evolving landscape of conversational assistants.

StoryFile, the inventor of Conversational Video, has launched Conversa, the first and only enterprise SaaS solution that provides tools to collect video, to create and train AI interactions, and to be published anywhere on the web. Conversa is a subscription-based web-app that provides the technical tools for companies and institutions to create compelling Conversational Video for their teams, clients, and the public. It gives businesses control over their content, messaging, and branding. It gives audiences agency to enquire through an immersive, humanized experience that is engaging and impactful. "Conversa is the engine that will revolutionize business communications," said Stephen D. Smith, CEO of StoryFile. "It makes previously impossible asynchronous conversations possible, at scale, and forges a new kind of relationship between companies and their audiences.

As Star Trek star William Shatner turns 90, he's signing up as a brand ambassador for StoryFile, a company focused on artificial intelligence. Shatner will become the first person to use a new program called StoryFile Life to create "an AI-powered interactive conversational video so family and friends can interact with him for years to come." Shatner's StoryFile profile, which uses AI and the company's proprietary technology Conversa, will be made available for the public to interact with on internet-connected devices in May. "This is for all my children and all my children's children and all my children's loved ones and all the loved ones of the loved ones," Shatner said in a press release. You can watch a behind-the-scenes video of the recording here.