TL;DR for operators A document assistant has already found several relevant pages but still cannot support an answer. The next action should depend on why the evidence is inadequate: perhaps another page is missing, or perhaps the answer is already present but buried in a table, region, or cross-page relationship that needs closer inspection. ...
TL;DR for operators A visual support assistant shown an unfamiliar machine, product, bird, or venue cannot answer by retrieval alone. It must first determine what the image depicts, then locate the missing fact, while deciding whether another search is worth the delay. A wrong first match can redirect every later step toward the wrong entity. ...
Captioning looks easy until the caption has to be true. A consumer image captioning model can say, “a man standing at a podium,” and most people will nod. A newsroom cannot stop there. It needs to know whether the man is a senator, a witness, a CEO, a defendant, or simply someone unlucky enough to stand near a microphone. It may need the committee name, the location, the event, the year, the organization behind the banner, and the person half-visible at the edge of the frame. Journalism, as usual, ruins the demo. ...