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Gilbane Advisor 10-25-23 — Semantic Scholar, AI storytelling

This week we feature articles from Cassidy Trier, and Dan McCreary.

Additional reading comes from Kim Salazar, Tim Neusesser & Nishi Chitale, David Pierce, Petar Veličković, and Kurt Cagle.

News comes from Netlify, Language Weaver, dbt Labs, and OpenLink Software.

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


Opinion / Analysis

Case Study: Iterative design for skimming support

As you know, I often recommend academic and technical papers to read. I do so because it is the only way to keep up with the rapidly changing areas I cover. I recommend papers that I think you can learn from without having a math PhD, or other deep technical expertise. I just ran across Semantic Scholar, a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature from the Allen Institute for AI. I have just started playing with it (it is still in beta), and I think it has promise for technical researchers, but also for less technical analysts and strategists. Cassidy Trier provides a good introduction with links to try it out, and provide feedback. (7 min)

https://blog.allenai.org/case-study-iterative-design-for-skimming-support-5563dbe0899e

The Jellyfish and the Flatworm

“Many executives are pondering difficult decisions about making large investments in AI. For many of them, their lack of a technical background makes it difficult for them to visualize the impact of AI on their customers, their products, and their employees. To help executives make the right strategic decisions, we need powerful storytelling in terms they can understand and remember.” Dan McCreary provides one. (9 min)

https://dmccreary.medium.com/the-jellyfish-and-the-flatworm-bdad78e6f68b

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Content technology news

Netlify announces Composable Web Platform

The platform unifies content, data sources, code and infrastructure with your chosen components integrated into a single workflow.
https://www.netlify.com/platform/

Language Weaver extends neural machine translation capabilities with LLMs

To accelerate development and deployment of generative AI to enhance the capabilities of its secure, AI-powered machine translation platform.
https://www.rws.com/language-weaver/

dbt Labs announces the next generation of dbt Semantic Layer

New features: Dynamic join support, optimized query plans and SQL generation, expanded data platform support, a new integration with Tableau.
https://www.getdbt.com

A practical application of a Knowledge Graph-driven Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for modern knowledge discovery and exploration.
https://medium.com/openlink-software-blog/introducing-the-openlink-personal-assistant-e74a76eb2bed

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Gilbane Advisor 10-18-23 — UI models, GenAI use cases

This week we feature articles from Michael Andrews, and Barr Moses.

Additional reading comes from Daniel Tunkelang, Matthias Pfefferle, Jonny Protheroe & Sian Davies, and Michael Parekh.

News comes from Adobe, Optimizely, Ontotext, and MadCap Software.

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


Opinion / Analysis

Bridging the divide between structured content and user interface design

Michael Andrews explains why implementing decoupled design with headless decoupled content management systems is difficult, and makes the case for UI models as the eventual solution. (15 min).

https://storyneedle.com/bridging-the-divide-between-structured-content-and-user-interface-design/

5 Generative AI use cases companies can implement today

“… where do most companies actually start when it comes to incorporating generative AI? What generative AI use cases are realistic, achievable, and actually worth the ROI?”

Barr Moses investigated and does a nice job describing what some early adopters have implemented, with a bit of how and who included. (10 min).

https://towardsdatascience.com/5-generative-ai-use-cases-companies-can-implement-today-f458707bfbbe

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Content technology news

Adobe releases new Experience Manager for Enterprises

Adobe Experience Manager Sites enable businesses to build websites, and easily create and edit web content using popular word processing tools.
https://business.adobe.com/products/experience-manager/sites/aem-sites.html

Optimizely debuts marketing operating system

Optimizely One provides a single workflow making it simpler for marketers to create, manage, deliver, and optimize content all in one place.
https://www.optimizely.com

Ontotext GraphDB now available in AWS Marketplace

GraphDB listing on AWS Marketplace enables global customers to apply semantic technology to connect the dots of their enterprise data easily. https://www.ontotext.com/products/graphdb/

MadCap Software brings ChatGPT to MadCap Central

The content management platform provides integrated ChatGPT functionality optimized for authors and editors of technical content.
https://www.madcapsoftware.com

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Gilbane Advisor 10-11-23 — Future data stacks, GRAGs, knowledge graphs

This week we feature articles from Dave Vellante, George Gilbert, & Bob Muglia, and Kurt Cagle.

Additional reading comes from Jessica Dai, Lily Hay Newman, and Wes Davis.

News comes from WordLift, Brightspot, Sitecore, and Contentful.

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


Opinion / Analysis

Uber for everyone: Bob Muglia on how the future of data apps will evolve

This comprehensive discussion between Dave Vellante, George Gilbert, & Bob Muglia on the future of data stacks and platforms is a must read for anyone involved in data management. (36 min)

https://siliconangle.com/2023/09/23/uber-everyone-bob-muglia-future-data-apps-will-evolve/

Augmenting LLMs with Knowledge Graphs and GRAGs

“I believe that the discussions about ontologies and large language models are just starting. Knowledge graphs provide a means to specify and manually manipulate local ontologies, which factor heavily in data modeling and often determine the shape of data. At the same time, no single ontology is ideal for every potential contingency. GRAGs balance the two, mixing manual and automated conceptual manipulation that strengthens both sides of the equation.”

Kurt Cagle provides a clear and accessible explanation of how this can work. (4 min)

https://metaphoricalweb.substack.com/p/augmenting-llms-with-knowledge-graphs

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Content technology news

WordLift introduces Content Generation Tool

WordLift ensures LLM generated content is accurate, efficient, and scalable using graphs, ontologies, AI, and semantic web technologies.
https://wordlift.io

Brightspot launches its next generation CMS solution

Brightspot CMS 4.7 integrates OpenAI, upgrades to CMS search experience, new development tools, an enhanced alert system, custom help guides.
https://www.brightspot.com/brightspot-cms/brightspot-4-7

Sitecore unveils XM Cloud Plus and Sitecore Accelerate

The cloud CMS solution brings together content management, AI-powered search, personalization, customer data management and analytics.
https://www.sitecore.com

Contentful announces new products and capabilities

Multi-experience orchestration, Experience Builder, AI-driven advancements enable greater collaboration in the Contentful Platform and Studio.
https://contentful.com/whats-new

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Gilbane Advisor 10-4-23 — GenAI and knowledge workers, entity resolution

This week we feature a paper by Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Edward McFowland, Ethan Mollick, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Katherine C. Kellogg, Saran Rajendran, Lisa Krayer, François Candelon, & Karim R. Lakhani, and an article by Sixing Huang.

Additional reading comes from Doug Shapiro, Cassie Kozyrkov, Fabrice Canel, and Andrej Karpathy.

News comes from Acquia, Expert[.]ai, MongoDB, and Atlan

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


Opinion / Analysis

Navigating the jagged technological frontier: field experimental evidence of the effects of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality

There is lots of speculation and anecdotal evidence on the efficacy of generative AI. This working paper from HBS, with Wharton, Sloan, and BCG focuses on a “highly skilled knowledge workers” — in this case 758 Boston Consulting Group strategy consultants. Well worth the read. The link below is to the abstract, which has some top line findings, along with a link to the full paper.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4573321

The same, or not the same — that is the problem of entity resolution

To the uninitiated, entity resolution can sound straightforward, but alas, it is usually devilishly complex. Sixing Huang describes some challenges with examples in biomedical and customer data, and provides the methods he uses to deal with them. His approach will be helpful for other applications. (9 min)

https://medium.com/codex/the-same-or-not-the-same-that-is-the-problem-of-entity-resolution-32d2b8d6dd34

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Content technology news

Acquia launches Acquia Exchange Integration Hub for Open DXP

One-stop source for martech and developer tools that extend Acquia’s open and composable digital experience platform (DXP).
https://www.acquia.com/integrations

Expert[.]ai launches Enterprise Language Model for Insurance (ELMI)

ELMI offers insurers a flexible language model built specifically to accelerate core processes from underwriting to claims.
https://www.expert.ai/expert-ai-launches-enterprise-language-model-for-insurance-elmi/

MongoDB announces new Atlas Vector Search capabilities

Integration with Confluent Cloud and MongoDB Atlas Vector Search allows developers access to real-time data streams from a variety of sources.
https://www.mongodb.com/press/new-mongodb-atlas-vector-search-capabilities-help-developers-build-and-scale-ai-applications

Atlan launches Tag Management, enabling bi-directional tag sync

Data teams can use Atlan as the control plane so data assets tagged in Atlan are tagged and protected across everywhere in the data ecosystem.
https://atlan.com

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Gilbane Advisor 9-27-23 — Information foraging, multilingual datasets

This week we feature articles by Raluca Budiu, Feifei Liu, Emma Cionca, & Amy Zhang, and Dhanshree Shripad Shenwai.

Additional reading comes from Matthew Tyson, Milton Hwang, Alan Morrison, and George Stavrakis.

News comes from Amazon & Anthropic, Contentful, Writer, and StreamText.

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


Opinion / Analysis

Information foraging with generative AI: a study of 3 chatbots

Nielsen Norman Group does their thing — focusing on the user experience… “In a study of ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing Chat, users found these tools helpful and trustworthy. They expected these AI chatbots to aggregate information in a concise and specific manner, while fully considering contextual cues.” (20 min)

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/generative-ai-diary

Researchers from the University of Oregon and Adobe introduce CulturaX: a multilingual dataset with 6.3T Tokens in 167 languages tailored for large language model (LLM) development

This looks like an especially worthwhile contribution to open source datasets for LLM training given its size and the number of languages included. Dhanshree Shripad Shenwai provides a summary of the paper with links to it, as well as to the dataset now available on HuggingFace. 

(3 min) Summary: https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/09/22/researchers-from-the-university-of-oregon-and-adobe-introduce-culturax-a-multilingual-dataset-with-6-3t-tokens-in-167-languages-tailored-for-large-language-model-llm-development/
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.09400v1.pdf

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Content technology news

Amazon and Anthropic announce strategic collaboration to advance generative AI

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic for a minority ownership in the company. Anthropic to use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips.
https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/9/amazon-and-anthropic-announce-strategic-collaboration-to-advance-generative-ai ■ https://www.anthropic.com

Contentful launches composable content platform in AWS Marketplace

Platform unlocks digital content from across the organization so teams can collaborate effectively to craft and deliver digital experiences.
https://www.contentful.com/partners/technology/aws/

Writer gets $100 million series B to deliver generative AI to enterprises

Platform embeds AI into any business process and pairs Writer-built LLMs with Knowledge Graph which integrates with business data sources.
https://writer.com

StreamText updates Automatic Speech Recognition Caption platform

StreamText can support human and AI-based caption generation workflows to ensure accessibility at events, in the classroom, and in meetings.
https://streamtext.net/automatic-captions/

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Gilbane Advisor 9-20-23 — Software complexity, facial blurring

This week we feature articles by Mike Loukides, and Danilo Najkov.

Additional reading comes from Maria Stasimioti, Sarah K. White, Natasha Lomas, and Wangchunshu Zhou, Ningyu Zhang, Peng Cui, et al.

News comes from Adobe, Acquia, Netlify, and Cloudinary.

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


Opinion / Analysis

The real problem with software development

“It’s not writing code, it’s managing complexity”. So true. Mike Loukides has an excellent piece explaining what this means for modern software development, and for the utility of generative AI coding. This non-technical article (no code) is useful for anyone who has to make decisions about, or understand, software development projects, strategy, or operations. (5 min)

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-real-problem-with-software-development/

Unlocking the power of facial blurring in media: A comprehensive exploration and model comparison

Danilo Najkov reports on his project to understand how face detection and blurring is currently being accomplished. He compares algorithms used, and provides visual examples, and a web application he built to do so. (12 min)

https://towardsdatascience.com/unlocking-the-power-of-facial-blurring-in-media-a-comprehensive-exploration-and-model-comparison-261031603513

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Content technology news

Adobe unveils Adobe GenStudio for enterprises

Solution combines content ideation, creation, production and activation to support the enterprise content supply chain with generative AI.
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/Adobe-Unveils-Adobe-GenStudio-for-Enterprises/default.aspx

Acquia adds generative AI to digital asset management platform

Native integration for AI-generated product and image descriptions to speed time to market for digital assets used across customer channels.
https://www.acquia.com/newsroom/press-releases/acquia-dam-generativeai

Netlify announces Software Developer Kit (SDK)

New suite to accelerate modern web development for enterprise developers with a streamlined, accelerated path to composable web architecture.
https://www.netlify.com/products/software-development-kit

Cloudinary updates Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform

Studio is a new feature that allows allows non-technical users to quickly adapt images and video with built-in generative AI capabilities.
https://cloudinary.com

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Gilbane Advisor 9-13-23 — Text-to-CAD, magic & zero knowledge proofs

This week we feature articles by Reggie Raye & K. Alexandria Bond, and Michael Blau.

Additional reading comes from Tom Krazit, Carl Franzen, Lukas Blecher, Guillem Cucurull, Thomas Scialom & Robert Stojnic, and Paul Baier, Jimmy Hexter, & John J. Sviokla.

News comes from Kobai & Databricks, Merkle, InfluxData, and Neo4j.

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


Opinion / Analysis

Text-to-CAD: risks and opportunities

I haven’t seen much discussion of generative AI and 3D, where the output is a 3D CAD model rather than an image, but of course this is already a thing. Reggie Raye & K. Alexandria Bond provide a readable and useful overview of some tools to use, as well as advice on dealing with the unique design and engineering applicable. (12 min)

https://thegradient.pub/text-to-cad/

Secrets, and how to prove them: A magician’s guide to zero-knowledge proofs

If you’ve read multiple explanations of what a zero-knowledge proof is and you’re not convinced you’ve quite got the hang of it, or you are confident you have, but are looking for a non-technical explanation, you know, for a friend, you’ll appreciate this short demo and explanation by magician by Michael Blau — though he keeps his secret. He also works with crypto investors. (3 min)

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/a-magicians-guide-to-zero-knowledge-proofs/

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Content technology news

Merkle launches global composable commerce accelerator for Salesforce Commerce

Developed to work with Contentful and Magnolia content management systems, the accelerator extends Salesforce Commerce Cloud and streamlines integration.
https://www.merkle.com/en/merkle-now/press-releases/2023/merkle-launches-global-composable-commerce-accelerator-for-sales.html

InfluxData Announces InfluxDB Clustered

The rebuilt database engine is optimized for real-time analytics with higher performance, unlimited cardinality, and SQL support.
https://www.influxdata.com

Kobai announces partnership with Databricks

Kobai’s Saturn platform is embedded directly in the data layer, allowing organizations to query data without moving it from the lakehouse.
https://www.kobai.io/articles/strategic-partnership-between-databricks-and-kobai

Neo4j adds vector search within its native graph database

Enables customers to achieve richer insights from semantic search and generative AI applications, and serve as long-term memory.
https://neo4j.com/press-releases/neo4j-vector-search/

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Gilbane Advisor 9-6-23 — AI disorders, knowledge graph paths

This week we feature articles by Ina Fried & Scott Rosenberg, and Peter Lawrence.

Additional reading comes from Vitalik Buterin, Daniel Smilkov & Nikhil Thorat, and Jan Kammerath.

News comes from Google, Open AI, ElevenLabs, Bloomreach, and DeltaXML.

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


Opinion / Analysis

AI could choke on its own exhaust as it fills the web

In the last issue before our summer break we recommended a paper on LLM model collapse, caused by LLMs training on data sets that include previously generated data. This week Ina Fried, Scott Rosenberg provide a short and useful summary of this and other “AI disorders” and some of the repercussions as more generated data populates the web. (3 min). 

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/28/ai-content-flood-model-collapse

Having a tough chat with an LLM about knowledge graph paths

There is a lot of enthusiasm around pairing knowledge graphs and LLMs, but there is also a lot to learn. Peter Lawrence is on the case, and in this article explores how “an LLM can be tuned or prompted with a knowledge graph, to answer tough questions about shortest paths through the graph.” (15 min)

https://blog.gopenai.com/having-a-tough-chat-with-an-llm-about-knowledge-graph-paths-d4fc43f97332

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Content technology news

Duet AI for Google Workspace now available

With Duet AI, we added AI as a real-time collaborator that can act as a coach, source of inspiration, and productivity booster.
https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/duet-ai-in-workspace-now-available

Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise

Offers enterprise-grade security & privacy, higher-speed GPT-4 access, longer context windows, advanced data analysis, and customization options.
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-enterprise

XElevenLabs releases Eleven Multilingual v2

New foundational deep learning model supporting multilingual capabilities across 28 languages to broaden and improve accessibility of content.
https://elevenlabs.io/blog/multilingualv2/

Bloomreach announces Clarity

Businesses connect conversations to product catalogs, and integrate individual conversations across channels, including website, chat, and SMS.
https://www.bloomreach.com/en/products/clarity

DeltaXML improves CALS table handling to merge products

Flexible n-way comparison and merge of CALS tables to produce rigorous and accurate comparisons. Supports table versions different structures.
https://www.deltaxml.com

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