This week we feature articles from Gary Marcus and Daniel Tunkelang.

News comes from Access Innovations, Brightspot, Super .AI, and Indico Data.

We’ll be off next week, back the week after.

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Opinion / Analysis

Deep learning is hitting a wall

There has always been a healthy skepticism that deep learning would take us to artificial general intelligence (AGI). But the genuinely amazing things that can be accomplished with the combination of deep learning, big data, and computing power led to a lazy optimism. Fortunately, that is changing, and it is increasingly clear that deep learning alone is insufficient to accomplish much of what is expected. Gary Marcus provides historical and recent context and makes a case for a neurosymbolic hybrid approach. Not too technical.

https://nautil.us/deep-learning-is-hitting-a-wall-14467/

Content similarity

Content classification and annotation offer useful approaches for content understanding, recognizing whether a piece of content is about a particular topic or mentions a particular entity. But most content exists in a space that is too rich to reduce to classification and annotation. A document is more than a category and a bag of entities. For content understanding to be worthy of the name, it needs to embrace the richness of the content it represents… A more granular approach to content understanding focuses on the similarity between documents.

Daniel Tunkelang’s latest post in his series on content understanding techniques. A bit technical.

https://medium.com/content-understanding/content-similarity-d3c7a9cd7d44

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More Reading…

• Mozilla’s vision for the evolution of the Web A review of what’s good, what’s not, and how to improve it. via Mozilla
• You can help… Making WebViews work for the Web, via W3C
• Promising… EU, US agree on Privacy Shield enhancements, via The Register
• Deal on Digital Markets Act: EU rules to ensure fair competition and more choice for users, but there are concerns about what it means for encryption. via EU Parliament

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Content technology news

Indico Data updates its Unstructured Data Platform

To drive efficiency and accelerate automation and intelligent document processing (IDP) initiatives using unstructured data.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/indico-data-updates-its-unstructured-data-platform/

Brightspot and ethinking partner to deliver CMS transformation

Brightspot CMS with ethinking’s of ‘XP Layer’ headless low-code software provides an interface between data sources and content channels.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/brightspot-and-ethinking-partner-to-deliver-cms-transformation/

Access Innovations announces Video/Audio to Text to Tagging solution for video transcript search

A “point in time” search allows users to find the precise time within the video/audio where the speaker discusses a specific topic.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/access-innovations-announces-video-audio-to-text-to-tagging-solution-for-video-transcript-search/

Super.AI updates its Unstructured Data Processing platform

Unifies intelligent document processing (IDP), human-in-the-loop (HITL), redaction, and processing of any data type.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/super-ai-updates-its-unstructured-data-processing-platform/

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This week we feature articles from Jason Cohen and Rachel Dulberg.

Additional reading is from John Glaser & Elizabeth Gardner, Christine Moorman, Mike Melanson, and Thomas Claburn.

News comes from Progress, Liferay, Semantic Web Co & Wand, and Stepes.

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Opinion / Analysis

The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth

Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” Turns out, this is incorrect, even for Facebook and Slack. If you have an incorrect model, you don’t understand growth, which means you can’t control it, nor predict it. Here is a different model to understand how companies actually grow.

This is a must-read from Jason Cohen — not just for investors and startups, but business, marketing, and product managers. Well written with lots of great supporting charts. h/t: @dharmesh

https://longform.asmartbear.com/docs/exponential-growth/

The Privacy Program Playbook Part I — How to design a winning privacy roadmap

Operationalising privacy is hard. Here’s how to design, plan and implement a successful privacy program (with your sanity intact).

Rachel Dulberg to the rescue…

https://medium.com/@rachel_d_ai/the-privacy-program-playbook-part-i-8f943fc05760

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More Reading…

• HL7’s FHIR Standardized APIs could finally make it easy to exchange health records, and meet this year’s deadline. via HBR
• Excellent and free. The latest annual CMO Survey from Duke Fuqua School of Business via Duke
• When Chrome and Firefox aren’t… OWA takes on Apple’s browser ban for PWA parity via The New Stack
• Apple, Google urge monopoly watchdog to leave them alone in letters to the UK’s CMA. via The Register

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Content technology news

Progress updates multi-channel digital experience platform

Progress Sitefinity DX adds a layer of composability to help organizations develop and deploy multichannel digital experiences with .NET 6.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/progress-updates-multi-channel-digital-experiences/

Liferay announces cloud-based DXP-as-a-Service offering

It includes content management, account management, analytics, commerce, personalization, low code capabilities, delivered on an as-a-service.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/liferay-announces-cloud-based-dxp-as-a-service-offering/

Semantic Web Company and WAND Inc. announce partnership

Combo of WAND Taxonomies & Semantic Web’s A.I. search algorithms, knowledge graphs, and taxonomy management system increases algorithm accuracy.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/semantic-web-company-and-wand-inc-announce-partnership/

Stepes launches continuous terminology management solution

Enterprises can develop product glossaries and manage multilingual terminology for improved linguistic quality and consistency continuously.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/stepes-launches-continuous-terminology-management-solution/

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This week we feature an article from Emily Tucker.

Additional reading is from Aruna Pisharody, David Rodenas, Cobus Greyling, and Hecate He.

News comes from Adobe, Wrike, Interprefy & Microsoft, and Syncro Soft.

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Opinion / Analysis

Artifice and intelligence

The Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law’s Emily Tucker explains why they will stop using the terms “artificial intelligence”, “AI”, and “machine learning” in their work. She is certainly correct that words matter, and that the widespread lack of understanding and misuse of the terms is problematic. At the same time, not all institutional misuse is top-down and intentionally driven by greed and control – language laziness is pervasive and a bigger problem. Tucker’s proposed guidelines for replacement language are reasonable, though I don’t think “machine training” helps as replacement for “machine learning”.

https://medium.com/center-on-privacy-technology/artifice-and-intelligence¹-f00da128d3cd

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More Reading…

• Are multilingual language models fragile? via SyncedReview
• Handy research tool… Learn how to easily hydrate tweets step by step. via Towards Data Science
• Well… either way, a useful read… The JavaScript framework war is over via David Rodenas
• Your chatbot conversations must allow for digression via Cobus Greyling

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Content technology news

Adobe unveils new capabilities for personalizing experiences

Including product recommendations, live search results, cross-channel budget forecasting and optimization, and content creation and delivery.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/adobe-unveils-new-capabilities-for-personalizing-experiences/

Wrike announces Cloud Content Connector for DAM

When the Wrike cloud connector is connected a two-way sync is enabled so teams can work in their DAM solution and Wrike simultaneously.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/wrike-announces-cloud-content-connector-for-dam/

Interprefy integrates platform with Microsoft Teams

Meeting organisers can add a language selector to Teams meetings, allowing participants to speak, listen and engage in their own language.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/interprefy-integrates-platform-with-microsoft-teams/

Syncro Soft releases Oxygen XML suite 24.1

Products updated: Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, Publishing Engine, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and Oxygen XML Scripting.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/syncro-soft-releases-oxygen-xml-suite-24-1/

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This week we feature articles from Doc Searls, and Thomas Claburn.

Additional reading is from Rustam Lalkaka, Philipp Schreiber, and Kate Moran.

News comes from Contentstack & Conscia, Yext, Bynder & GatherContent, Searchspring, and Bounteous & Acquia.

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Opinion / Analysis

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla agree on something: Make web dev lives easier

Not to mention web users frustrated by having to switch from their regular browser (e.g. Safari) on certain sites to complete a transaction, or worse, those who don’t realize the browser is the problem and move on.

Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, along with software consultancies Bocoup and Igalia, have agreed to work together to make web design technologies perform in a more consistent way across different platforms.

The benchmark they are using, Interop 2022, details some of the progress they are making. This is excellent news, but…

https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/04/web_dev_tech

Beyond the Web

A more existential problem for the web, as Doc Searls describes in this post, is its client-server architecture — “So it’s time to think and build outside the Web’s ranchland. Models for that do exist, and some have been around a long time.”. The event mentioned in the post with Ethan Zuckerman was yesterday, but the Salon Series at the Ostrom Workshop discussing this is posting links to archives of the conversations.

https://dsearls.medium.com/beyond-the-web-b33518312876

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More Reading…

• For PDF hackers… Translate long PDF-Reports in Python, via Towards Data Science
• Useful info on how Private Relay works even if you’re not a Cloudflare customer… iCloud Private Relay, via Cloudflare Blog
• Lots to think about… Alternatives to pagination on product-listing pages, via Nielsen Norman Group

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Content technology news

Contentstack partners with Conscia

Contentstack with Conscia will bring headless personalization to their existing and prospective Content Experience Platform (CXP) customers.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/contentstack-partners-with-conscia/

Yext launches program to bring AI search to startups

Accepted startups get tech to create a knowledge graph, integrate search into their own web experiences, or build SEO-friendly landing pages.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/yext-launches-program-to-bring-ai-search-to-startups/

Digital asset management platform Bynder acquires GatherContent

To manage the content creation lifecycle, from visual production, through text creation into structured content for multichannel delivery.
https://gilbane.com/2022/03/digital-asset-management-platform-bynder-acquires-gathercontent/

Searchspring accelerator for commerce entrepreneurs and MWBEs

Searchspring will provide search, merchandising, and personalization access for ecommerce entrepreneurs, and a process for supporting MWBEs.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/searchspring-launches-ecommerce-accelerator/

Bounteous announces Customer Data Platform offering with Acquia

To help marketing organizations deliver more relevant customer experiences by leveraging customer data and machine learning from the start.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/bounteous-announces-customer-data-platform-offering-with-acquia/

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I’ll be traveling next week so the next issue will be March 9th.

This week we feature articles from Dan McCreary, and Bill Franks.

Additional reading is from The Markup’s Citizen Browser, the IAB, The Gradient, and the Neo4j Developer Blog.

News comes from Translations.com & Amplience, Reveille, Bridgeline, and InfluxData.

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Opinion / Analysis

A Thousand Brains and the EKG. How shape detection drives classification

Dan McCreary is an excellent resource for learning about enterprise knowledge graphs, especially for complex applications. This article was inspired by Jeff Hawkins’ book, A Thousand Brains. McCreary sees parts of Hawkins’ brain theory as an enlightening way to think about the future of enterprise knowledge graph architectures and capabilities. The book looks like a must-read for anyone interested in brain theory — I’ve just started it — but you don’t need to read the book to understand McCreary’s ideas about EKGs.

https://towardsdatascience.com/1000-brains-and-the-ekg-8ef7b1764ccd

A major barrier to scalable analytics

In this short article, Bill Franks cautions against neglecting to adequately consider the costs of moving data around, which remain significant in spite of all the improvements in data management tools.

This challenge exists with traditional relational data warehouses and data marts. It also exists in the more recent NoSQL and file-based data repositories. Most critically, the challenge doesn’t go away with cloud architectures in general, or with newer paradigms like a data mesh or data fabric. While some of the newer approaches make the management of the disparate data sources more seamless to a user and easier for administrators, the fundamental problem of having to move data is still there. It’s just easier to ask for it to happen. Hybrid cloud environments can be particularly problematic in this respect.

https://datafloq.com/read/a-major-barrier-to-scalable-analytics-2/

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More Reading…

• IAB State of Data Initiative 2022, free, but requires login, via IAB
• From the department of public service… Facebook scammers schilling fake crypto using big tech’s biggest names, via Citizen Browser
• How Aristotle is fixing deep learning’s flaws, via The Gradient
• If you’re a Neo4j and a Wordle geek… Create a Neo4j AuraDB free instance, via Neo4j Developer Blog

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Content technology news

Translations.com certifies Amplience’s GlobalLink Connect integration

Provides for an all-in-one solution to initiate, automate, control, track, and complete all facets of the translation process.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/translations-com-certifies-ampliences-globallink-connect-integration/

Reveille 10 adds support for Hyland OnBase and Alfresco

Intelligent automation capabilities with expanded support for Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power BI, and OpenText.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/reveille-10-adds-support-for-hyland-onbase-and-alfresco/

Bridgeline announces suite for multi-location businesses

Specialized software for managing multiple websites including location pages, local eCommerce, location finder, search, reporting, analytics.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/bridgeline-announces-suite-for-multi-location-businesses/

InfluxData releases new features

InfluxDB will help expedite IoT and Industrial IoT application building for developers working with time series data at the edge.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/influxdata-releases-new-features/

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This week we feature articles from JPMorgan’s Anu Jain, Graham Person, Paul Conroy, with Nivas Shankar from AWS, and from IBM’s Rolly John.

Additional reading is from the Google AI Blog, ZDNet, Wired, and The Next Platform.

News comes from Acquia, Elastic, Piano & SocialFlow, and Oro.

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Opinion / Analysis

How JPMorgan Chase built a data mesh architecture to drive significant value to enhance their enterprise data platform

A short high-level description of a data mesh implementation that does a good job explaining the what, and the value; suitable for senior management and non-technical colleagues. Excellent illustrations.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/how-jpmorgan-chase-built-a-data-mesh-architecture-to-drive-significant-value-to-enhance-their-enterprise-data-platform/

How Topic Modelling can help companies to mine customer reviews

Rolly John has a more technical how-to piece based on a project she is working on. She includes details with links to analysis and code on her GitHub, and plans to provide updates on enhancements as she progresses.

https://medium.com/ibm-data-ai/how-topic-modelling-can-help-companies-to-mine-through-comments-and-reviews-c5cd973ce201

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More Reading…

• Add intelligence to your document processing with Google’s Enterprise Knowledge Graph via Google Blog
• Building a lakehouse datastore like Uber, but with managed lakehouse services built on Hudi. via The Next Platform
• How Oracle Autonomous JSON Database adds MongoDB support via ZDNet
• Fascinating background… How Telegram became the anti-Facebook via Wired

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Content technology news

Acquia launches UK hosting solution

London data center allows Drupal Cloud in-country hosting for organizations impacted by Brexit to support customer data localization.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/acquia-launches-uk-hosting-solution/

Elastic 8.0 Elastic search, vector search, natural language processing

Enterprise Search updates include native vector search, support for modern natural language processing (NLP) models, and data onboarding.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/elastic-releases-elastic-8-0/

Piano acquires SocialFlow

Will help organizations manage organic posting across platforms, manage paid social media campaigns, and collect data on user clicks.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/piano-acquires-socialflow/

Oro unveils OroCommerce 5.0

Open-source eCommerce platform for B2B adds features to boost productivity, improve site performance, and optimize customer experiences.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/oro-unveils-orocommerce-5-0/

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This week we feature articles from Ryan Dawson and Tim Bray.

Additional reading is from TheSequence, Kai-Fu Lee, NLPlanet, and Sandeep Uttamchandani.

News comes from Franz, Webscale, Box & Slack, and Access Innovations.

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Opinion / Analysis

How do you evaluate MLOps platforms?

Companies that pioneered application of AI at scale did so using in-house ML platforms (facebook, uber, LinkedIn etc.). These capabilities are now available in off-the-shelf products. The rush to MLOps has led to too much choice. There are hundreds of tools and at least 40 platforms available…

Ryan Dawson wants to help. He starts with this high-level view, but is then kind enough to point to a detailed open source MLOps platforms comparison matrix.

https://medium.com/mlops-community/how-to-evaluate-mlops-platforms-c98cf7874cca

Lock-in and multi-cloud

Multi-cloud is a tricky thing, and causes serious stress in various parts of organizations. We’ve covered this before, including here, here, and here. This week Tim Bray digs in to the trade-offs and delivers additional and useful thoughts to help inform your decisions.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/01/30/Cloud-Lock-In

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More Reading…

• DeepMind and OpenAI magical week in AI, Progress in code and math via TheSequence
• Don’t get hung up on AGI… Why computers don’t need to match human intelligence, via Kai-Fu Lee
• Awesome NLP — 21 popular NLP libraries of 2022, via NLPlanet
• Useful info once you get beyond the flashing GIF at the top… 2022 technology landscape to make AI self-service via Sandeep Uttamchandani

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Content technology news

Access Innovations launches Data Harmony Hub for automated content classification and semantic metadata enrichment

A cloud-based platform that provides automated content tagging using expertly curated taxonomies. Users can select from existing taxonomies.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/data-harmony-hub-for-automated-content-classification-and-semantic-metadata/

Webscale launches CloudEDGE PWA

CloudEDGE PWA supports frontend delivery for including Adobe/Magento, Shopify, Hybris, Salesforce Commerce Cloud or BigCommerce backends.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/webscale-launches-cloudedge-pwa/

Franz’s Gruff 8.1 brings visual knowledge graphs to web applications

Users can now visually build queries and visualize connections between enterprise data directly within a web page or web application.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/franzs-gruff-8-1-brings-visual-knowledge-graphs-to-web-applications/

Box updates Slack integration

The Box for Slack integration that enables customers to use Box as the single file storage system in the Slack environment.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/box-updates-slack-integration/

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Happy Groundhog Day!

This week we have articles from Joel Spolsky and Tomaz Bratanic. News comes from Cambridge Semantics, Box & Microsoft, Google, and Translations.com & ServiceNow.

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Opinion / Analysis

Making the web better. With blocks!

You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks… This kind of “insert block” user interface concept is showing up in almost every blogging tool, web editor, note-taking app, and content management system. People like it and it makes sense… I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if blocks were interchangeable and reusable across the web?

Joel Spolsky wants to create a new “block protocol” for developers that makes this possible, and he is looking for help. What makes this interesting is the use of structured data. Once you’ve read his short description check out this for answers to many of the questions you’ll have.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2022/01/27/making-the-web-better-with-blocks/

Monitoring the cryptocurrency space with NLP and knowledge graphs

Every day, millions of articles and papers are published. While there is a lot of knowledge hidden in those articles, it is virtually impossible to read all of them. Even if you only focus on a specific domain, it is still hard to find all relevant articles and read them to get valuable insights… In this blog post, I will present a solution of how you can combine the power of NLP with knowledge graphs to extract valuable insights from relevant articles automatically.

There are multiple use-cases where this solution would be applicable. For example, you could create a business monitoring tool to survey what the internet says about your own company…

Tomaz Bratanic’s tutorial uses crypto as an example of his solution using Diffbot and Neo4j.

https://medium.com/neo4j/monitoring-the-cryptocurrency-space-with-nlp-and-knowledge-graphs-92a1cfaebd1a

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More Reading…

• Not what you thought… Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs via The Economist
• Not just fun… Time-saving technologies via Product Hunt
• Couldn’t resist… I made an AI read Wittgenstein, then told it to play philosopher via Max Braun
• What they think… Google Research: themes from 2021 and beyond via Google AI Blog

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Content technology news

Cambridge Semantics updates Anzo

To make it easier to create knowledge graphs codeless capabilities for discovering, analyzing, and connecting your enterprise data.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/cambridge-semantics-updates-anzo/

Box enhances integration with Microsoft Teams

Integration can reduce content fragmentation and make it easier to collaborate across the Box Content Cloud and Microsoft environments.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/box-enhances-integration-with-microsoft-teams/

Google Topics replaces FloC

Topics was informed by our learning and widespread community feedback from our earlier FLoC trials, and replaces our FLoC proposal.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/google-topics-replaces-floc/

Translations.com updates ServiceNow integration

Extended localization and workflow automation provides users with a solution for managing global enterprise content with minimal effort.
https://gilbane.com/2022/01/translations-com-updates-servicenow-integration/

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