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Gilbane Advisor 5-31-23 — Gen AI gradient, massive multilingualism

May 31, 2023 /

This week we feature articles from Irene Solaiman, and the Meta AI Blog.

Additional reading comes from Stephen O’Grady, Max G. Levy, and Huw Roberts, Alexander Babuta, Jessica Morley, Christopher Thomas, Mariarosaria Taddeo & Luciano Floridi.

News comes from Docugami, Acquia, Adobe, and Elastic.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index/

Opinion / Analysis

Generative AI systems aren’t just open or closed source

“Conversation around generative AI tends to focus on whether its development is open or closed. It’s more responsible to envision releases along a gradient.”

Irene Solaiman proposes a framework of six levels of access to generative AI systems. Her focus is on policy and responsible and ethical release of these systems, and her framework provides a useful foundation for thinking about release strategies, and relevant policy decisions at different points along the gradient. 

(4 min summary): https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-systems-arent-just-open-or-closed-source/
Full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04844v1

Introducing speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and more for 1,100+ languages

Meta AI reports on their Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project which combines “wav2vec 2.0 … and a new dataset that provides labeled data for over 1,100 languages and unlabeled data for nearly 4,000 languages.”. They include a short demo, info on error rates, and links to the code and the technical paper. (7 min)

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/multilingual-model-speech-recognition/

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Docugami announces integration with LlamaIndex

Combine LlamaIndex with Docugami’s Document XML Knowledge Graph to build LLM applications that connect users to their own business documents.
https://www.docugami.com/blog/llamaindex

Acquia updates Acquia DAM

Enhancements to its digital asset management platform, Acquia DAM (Widen), includes an AI chatbot to assist in creative workflows and collaboration.
https://www.acquia.com/products/acquia-dam

Adobe unveils Generative Fill for Photoshop

The beta release is Adobe’s first Creative Cloud application to deeply integrate Firefly. Document Cloud, Experience Cloud and Adobe Express to follow.
https://firefly.adobe.com/

Elastic unveils the Elasticsearch Relevance Engine​

Companies can use their structured and unstructured data to build custom generative AI apps without the cost of running LLMs.
https://www.elastic.co/enterprise-search/generative-ai

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Datometry partners with Databricks

May 30, 2023 /

Datometry, provider of a database virtualization solution, announced their partnership with Databricks to accelerate the transition of enterprises from classic data warehouse technology to the lakehouse. The partnership will help enterprise customers overcome the lock-in of legacy vendors.

Enterprises struggle to move their workloads off legacy data warehouses like Teradata and Oracle. Until now, the way companies moved applications off these legacy systems was to rewrite them and translate the embedded SQL with conversion tools. This approach is not only costly and time-consuming but also error-prone and poses significant risk to an organization.

Datometry has joined the Databricks Technology Partner Program to offer customers a validated integration with Databricks that overcomes the challenges of conventional migrations. With Datometry, enterprises can move their business as-is without having to rewrite or redefine application code.

https://datometry.com

Snowflake acquires Neeva

May 24, 2023 /

From the Snowflake blog…

Search is fundamental to how businesses interact with data, and the search experience is evolving rapidly with new conversational paradigms emerging in the way we ask questions and retrieve information, enabled by generative AI. The ability for teams to discover precisely the right data point, data asset, or data insight is critical to maximizing the value of data.

That’s why Snowflake is acquiring Neeva, a search company founded to make search even more intelligent at scale. Neeva created a unique and transformative search experience that leverages generative AI and other innovations to allow users to query and discover data in new ways.

We plan to infuse and leverage these innovations across the Data Cloud to the benefit of our customers, partners and developers. Neeva allows us to tap into some of the most cutting-edge search technologies available to bring search and conversation in Snowflake to a new level.

As part of the acquisition, we are joined by some of the brightest minds working in search today. Neeva’s leadership and team members have been instrumental in the creation of numerous successful products like Google’s search advertising and YouTube monetization.

https://www.snowflake.com/blog/snowflake-acquires-neeva-to-accelerate-search-in-the-data-cloud-through-generative-ai/

Acquia updates Acquia DAM

May 24, 2023 /

Digital experience company Acquia announced enhancements to its digital asset management platform, Acquia DAM (Widen), including an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to assist in creative workflows. The capability enhances creative collaboration across content and creative teams with an always-ready sounding board and idea generator.

AI Assistant is integrated into the comments functionality of the Acquia DAM review and proofing tool, Workflow. Using it, anyone reviewing a content proof can ask the AI assistant a question in a conversational way and get a response in seconds to help spur creativity. Examples include getting copy suggestions to improve the written aspect of a project, requesting design suggestions, getting suggestions for visuals such as images or videos, receiving suggestions based on audience segmentation such as interests or behavior, or analyzing competitors’ content to help ensure differentiation.

Acquia also released new integrations for Acquia DAM to streamline collaboration across content and marketing teams and extend the value of their content across their martech stacks. These include: Canva, Jira, Dropbox, Marq, and Salesforce.

https://acquia.com/products/acquia-dam

Gilbane Advisor 5-24-23 — Fine-tuning LLMs, implementing Live Activities

May 24, 2023 /

This week we feature articles from Skanda Vivek, and Alexander Savard.

Additional reading comes from Dean Allemang, Neil Clarke, Sridhahr Ramaswamy & Vivek Raghunathan, and Bogdan Arsintescu.

News comes from Ontotext, Expert[.]ai, Sinequa, and TransPerfect & Contentstack.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index/

Opinion / Analysis

When should you fine-tune LLMs?

Last week we led with an article looking at combining knowledge graphs with large language models to create high-value domain specific applications. This post from Skanda Vivek looks at another decision to make when building a domain specific application: whether to use a proprietary LLM, such as ChatGPT, fine-tune an open-source LLM, or train an LLM from scratch. Vivek includes cost considerations, but also includes a link to a post with detailed hosting costs. (7 min)

https://towardsdatascience.com/when-should-you-fine-tune-llms-2dddc09a404a

That little island changes everything

A really interesting case study from Lyft on implementing Apple’s Dynamic Island and Live Activities for a better user experience. Alexander Savard takes you through the design decisions. (10 min)

https://design.lyft.com/that-little-island-changes-everything-b89b108f45b4

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Sinequa enhances platform for scientific search and clinical trial data

Combines deep learning and large language models for natural language understanding (NLU) with ChatGPT models through Azure OpenAI Service.Tridion unites web content, structured content and headless delivery
https://www.sinequa.com/enterprise-search-for-industries/healthcare-life-science/

Expert[.]ai launches AI platform for Life Sciences

The Platform combines industry language models and AI-based natural language capabilities transforming health and scientific data into insights.
https://www.expert.ai/solutions/life-science-pharma/

TransPerfect launches GlobalLink Connect app for Contentstack’s DXP

The GlobalLink Connect app is now available on the Contentstack Marketplace, part of Contentstack’s Composable Digital Experience Platform (DXP). 
https://www.transperfect.com/about/press/transperfect-launches-globallink-connect-app-contentstacks-composable-digital

Ontotext releases Target Discovery​

Platform provides pharma & biotech companies more efficient insight discovery, faster information retrieval, and advanced visual analytics.
https://www.ontotext.com/solutions/ontotexts-target-discovery/

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Elastic unveils the Elasticsearch Relevance Engine

May 23, 2023 /

Elastic announced the launch of the Elasticsearch Relevance Engine (ESRE), with built-in vector search and transformer models, which is designed to bring AI innovation to proprietary enterprise data. ESRE enables companies create secure deployments to take advantage of all their proprietary structured and unstructured data.

Elastic has made investments in foundational AI capabilities to democratize AI and machine learning for developers with a Unified APIs for vector search, BM25f search and hybrid search, plus a transformer model small enough to fit on a laptop’s memory.

Using a relevance engine, like ESRE, allows companies to take advantage of all of their structured and unstructured data to build custom generative AI (GAI) apps, without having to worry about the size and cost of running large language models. The ability to “bring your own” transformer model and integrate with third-party transformer models allows organizations to create secure deployments that leverage GAI on their specific business data. With ESRE, the companies and community of users that have invested in Elastic solutions can advance AI initiatives right now without a lot of additional resources.

https://www.elastic.co/enterprise-search/generative-ai

Adobe unveils Generative Fill for Photoshop

May 23, 2023 /

Adobe unveiled Generative Fill in Photoshop, bringing Adobe Firefly generative AI capabilities directly into design workflows. The new Firefly-powered Generative Fill giving users a new way to work by easily adding, extending or removing content from images non-destructively using simple text prompts. This beta release of Photoshop is Adobe’s first Creative Cloud application to deeply integrate Firefly. Adobe plans to incorporate Firefly across Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, Experience Cloud and Adobe Express.

Generative Fill automatically matches perspective, lighting and style of images to enable users achieve results while reducing tedious tasks. Generative Fill expands creative expression and productivity and enhances creative confidence of creators with the use of natural language and concepts to generate digital content.

Photoshop’s Generative Fill feature is available in the desktop beta app today and will be generally available in the second half of 2023. Generative Fill is also available today as a module within the Firefly beta app for users interested in testing the new capabilities on the web.

https://firefly.adobe.com

Docugami announces integration with LlamaIndex

May 22, 2023 /

Docugami, a document engineering company that transforms how businesses create and execute critical business documents, announced an initial integration of LlamaIndex with Docugami, via the Llama Hub.

The LlamaIndex framework provides a flexible interface between a user’s information and Large Language Models (LLMs). Coupling LlamaIndex with Docugami’s ability to generate a Document XML Knowledge Graph representation of long-form Business Documents opens opportunities for LlamaIndex developers to build LLM applications that connect users to their own Business Documents, without being limited by document size or context window restrictions.

General purpose LLMs alone cannot deliver the accuracy needed for business, financial, legal, and scientific settings because they are trained on the public internet, which introduces a wide range of irrelevant and low-quality source materials. By contrast, Docugami is trained exclusively for business scenarios, for greater accuracy and reliability.

Systems aiming to understand the content of documents, such as retrieval and question-answering, will benefit from Docugami’s semantic Document XML Knowledge Graph Representation. Our unique approach to document chunking allows for better understanding and processing of your documents

https://www.docugami.com/blog/llamaindex

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