This week we feature articles by Stephen Wolfram, and Mark Wyner.

Additional reading from Steve Nouri, James Vincent, and Steve Nadis.

News comes from TerminusDB, Acquia, PayloadCMS, and Stilo.

Note that news items now link to the original source of the news rather than our 200 word summaries, which are always available here.

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

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Opinion / Analysis

What is ChatGPT doing … and why does it work?

Last week’s featured article by Ted Chiang used a familiar analogy to somewhat demystify why ChatGPT appears to work well while sometimes going off the rails. This week Stephen Wolfram explains what is actually going on under the covers. This is a long (75 min) read, but fascinating, well-written, and guaranteed to make you smarter about large language models in general. 

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

Hashtag accessibility, by everyone for everyone

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should always be pascal case (a.k.a. camel case). There are a number of reasons why this is important, the most notable being that screen readers have a hard time with conjoined words.

Mark Wyner illustrates why this is a no-brainer (4 min).

https://markwyner.medium.com/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone-298667b2d891

More Reading

• “Liquid” neural nets based on a worm’s nervous system… Researchers discover a more flexible approach to machine learning via Quanta Magazine
• Handy list of keyboard shortcuts… Save your time Windows and Apple versions! via Steve Nouri
• Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing 🙂 via The Verge

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Content technology news

TerminusDB launches TerminusCMS

The open-source, headless, developer-focused content management system (CMS) is built on an RDF graph database that connects JSON documents into a graph.
https://terminusdb.com/blog/category/content-knowledge/

Acquia announces new CDP features, pricing tiers, and delivery options

Acquia CDP supports composable customer experience and data strategies through integrations with Acquia DXP and third-party marketing products.
https://www.acquia.com

Payload releases CMS version 1.6.0

In addition to optimizing the TypeScript interface of the Local API, the entire API has gotten a significant overhaul.
https://payloadcms.com

Stilo management buys out Stilo Corporation

Acquisition transfers all IP, trademarks, and customer contracts and XML software products: OmniMark, Migrate, OptimizeR, and Analyzer.
https://www.stilo.com/

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This week we feature articles by Ted Chiang, and Maria Puertas & Simon Fondrie-Teitler.

Additional reading from Heather Hedden, Benj Edwards, and Tom Warren.

News comes from Weaviate, Expert[.]ai, MadCap Software, and Open Applications Group.

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

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Opinion / Analysis

ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the Web

This analogy to lossy compression is not just a way to understand ChatGPT’s facility at repackaging information found on the Web by using different words. It’s also a way to understand the “hallucinations,” or nonsensical answers to factual questions, to which large language models such as ChatGPT are all too prone.

Ted Chiang does an excellent job of communicating to a non-technical audience why caution is called for in the use of large language models. (13 min).

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

How to fix your organization’s Meta pixel problem

Do you know whether, or what, information you are tracking and sending to Meta / Facebook? Does your company’s privacy policy makes claims about protecting customer data? If so, you may want to verify those claims are, in fact, supported across the organization. This may not be easy due to old code, turnover, size, and the number of websites and applications you have. The Markup’s Maria Puertas and Simon Fondrie-Teitler show you how to use their free research tool get started. (9 min).

https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/01/31/in-2023-resolve-to-fix-your-organizations-meta-pixel-problem

More Reading

• Taxonomies vs. ontologies via The Accidental Taxonomist
• AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack via ars technica
• Microsoft to demo its new ChatGPT-like AI in Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook soon via The Verge

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Content technology news

Weaviate releases generative search module

Combines language abilities like ChatGPT’s with a vector database that is relevant, secure, real time, and less prone to hallucination.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/weaviate-releases-generative-search-module/

Expert[.]ai announces new features to hybrid natural language platform

New features include expanded on-premise deployment options, enhanced taxonomy management via 3rd-party knowledge sources, and library integrations.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/expert-ai-announces-new-features-to-hybrid-natural-language-platform/

Madcap Software adds cloud-based authoring to MadCap Central

You can now create and edit files, and maintain projects uploaded to MadCap Central independent of MadCap Flare.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/madcap-software-adds-cloud-based-authoring-to-madcap-central/

Open Applications Group releases IOF Ontology Version 202301

Includes IOF Core in the Released status and the Supply Chain and the Maintenance Reference Ontologies in the Provisional Status.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/oagi-releases-iof-ontology-version-202301/

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This week we feature articles by Alan Morrison, and Rocío Txabarriaga, Yifan Wang, Zewei Sun, Shanbo Cheng, Weiguo Zheng, & Mingxuan Wang.

Additional reading from Yennie Jun, Dean Allemang, Sean Hollister.

News comes from Netlify & Gatsby, CrafterCMS, W3C, and AesirX.

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

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Opinion / Analysis

Enabling contextual computing in today’s enterprise information fabrics

What do get when you combine network effects, decentralized knowledge graphs, statistical machine learning, and blockchains? Alan Morrison: “… a siloless network of networks approach which P2P data networks such as IPFS are enabling will eventually result in…” a new level of connectivity, extended contextual computing, and value. OriginTrail is an instructive example. (5 min).

https://www.datasciencecentral.com/enabling-contextual-computing-in-todays-enterprise-information-fabrics/

Revisiting controlled language for better machine translation quality

Rocío Txabarriaga reports on (with link to) a paper proposing a methodology to more effectively and efficiently leverage style quality to improve controlled language MT results. The authors address limitations of current methods of accounting for language style, and show how their approach reduces the need for continuous model and fine tuning. (summary 2 min, paper 20 min).

https://slator.com/revisiting-controlled-language-better-machine-translation-quality/

More Reading

• A new spin to ethical AI: trolley problems with GPT-3 via Towards Data Science
• Merging data graphs made easy via Dean Allemang
• The new Microsoft Bing will sometimes misrepresent the info it finds via The Verge

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Content technology news

Netlify acquires Gatsby

Netlify is a platform for modern web development and the acquisition is aimed at accelerating adoption of composable web architectures.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/netlify-acquires-gatsby/

W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

The new entity preserves member-driven approach, existing worldwide outreach and cooperation while allowing additional partners around the world.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/w3c-re-launched-as-a-public-interest-non-profit-organization/

CrafterCMS expands its marketplace

The headless CMS and composable DXP vendor expands marketplace with 60+ open source plugins, blueprints, and packaged business capabilities.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/craftercms-expands-its-marketplace/

AesirX launches headless CMS

The CMS includes marketing automation software, digiatal asset management (DAM), 1st-party analytics, business insights, and Single Sign On.
https://gilbane.com/2023/02/aesirx-launches-headless-cms/

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This week we feature articles by Scott Lamb, and Matt Bornstein, Guido Appenzeller, & Martin Casado.

Additional reading from Mia Sato & Emma Roth, John Timmer, Steve Jones, and Allen Helton.

News comes from Digital Science & metaphacts, Zeta Alpha, WordSphere & DrupalWare, and Section.

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

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Opinion / Analysis

How we’re approaching AI-generated writing on Medium

This is a tricky issue for publishers, platforms, and writers, and given the infinite use cases and risk scenarios a general solution is not in the cards. Detection and enforcement efforts may provide some situational utility, but will be a whack-a-mole-like. Readers will, (or should), be concerned as provenance, source quality, and trust become more difficult to establish. Scott Lamb describes Medium’s first steps to address the issue. It’s a thoughtful and reasonable start. (4 min, not including comments).

https://blog.medium.com/how-were-approaching-ai-generated-writing-on-medium-16ee8cb3bc89

Who owns the generative AI platform?

Or rather, how is the tech stack and market for generative AI evolving? Who will be able to build sustainable businesses in this market, and why? Matt Bornstein, Guido Appenzeller, & Martin Casado have a good overview for investors, analysts, enterprise organizations, startups, and computing infrastructure businesses (12 min).

https://a16z.com/2023/01/19/who-owns-the-generative-ai-platform/

More Reading

• What were they thinking? CNET found errors in ore than half of its AI-written stories. via The Verge
• What are companies doing with D-Wave’s quantum hardware? Not nothing. via Ars Technica
• Reporting is the albatross around data’s neck via Steve Jones
• How I built an open source serverless newsletter platform via  Ready, Set, Cloud!

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Content technology news

Digital Science acquires metaphacts

metaphacts is a knowledge graph and decision intelligence software company. Its metaphactory platform helps accelerate knowledge graph adoption.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/digital-science-acquires-metaphacts/

Zeta Alpha integrates GPT with its semantic neural engine

To provide reliable and explainable AI generated answers to enterprise search queries and improve productivity in search and knowledge management.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/zeta-alpha-integrates-gpt-with-its-semantic-neural-engine/

WordSphere acquires DrupalWares

The WordPress website development company is also offering front-end and back-end development services for Drupal, BigCommerce, and Shopify.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/wordsphere-acquires-drupalware/

Section enhancements to help setup and scale Mastodon servers

The platform automates the management of workloads with rules-based parameters to easily distribute and scale Mastodon instances globally.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/section-enhancements-to-help-setup-and-scale-mastodon-servers/

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This week we feature articles by Brian Eastwood and Amber Case.

Additional reading from Alan Morrison, Daniel Tunkelang, and Robbie Elmers.

News comes from One AI, Lexalytics, Algolia & Uniform, and Snowflake & Mobilize[.]Net.

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Opinion / Analysis

What is synthetic data — and how can it help you competitively?

You, or perhaps your boss, may be skeptical of using synthetic data — the unfortunate term does suggest sketchiness. If so, Brian Eastwood’s easy read might convince you to learn more. (7 min).

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/what-synthetic-data-and-how-can-it-help-you-competitively

Why we need to know cybernetics

Amber Case argues that this 40s era approach to designing complex  systems is as relevant to product design as ever, or more so, given the complexity underlying not just mission-critical, but most enterprise and consumer applications. (8 min).

“There are so many complex systems in our lives that we’ve taken for granted for so long, that when we build new processes, we forget to consider how they integrate — or don’t, even to the point of grating on each other. When we forget to design and build from first principles, we risk making non-maintainable processes that can easily break.”

https://caseorganic.medium.com/why-we-need-to-know-cybernetics-f1dbbc4b5d8d

More Reading

• Throwing needles into haystacks. Don’t do it! via Daniel Tunkelang
• Preconditions for decoupled and decentralized data-centric systems. via Data Science Central
• No ending in sight… Google’s plan to replace cookies with its own Topics API protocol rejected by W3C via Tech News Space

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Content technology news

Uniform and Algolia partner

The Uniform + Algolia integration uses Algolia search to automate the creation of digital experiences for marketing and commerce sites.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/uniform-and-algolia-partner/

Snowflake to acquire Mobilize[.]net’s SnowConvert

The SnowConvert toolkit has long been a preferred solution for migrating customer workloads to Snowflake, reducing the need for manual coding.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/snowflake-to-acquire-mobilize-nets-snowconvert/

Lexalytics expands NLP capabilities across foreign languages

Lexalytics expands NLP capabilities across foreign languages – The natural language processing (NLP) technology improved accuracy and expanded NLP capabilities for 11 non-English languages.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/lexalytics-expands-nlp-capabilities-across-foreign-languages/

One AI Language solution for developers now in AWS Marketplace

The natural language processing (NLP) platform allows developers to analyze and process large amounts of text, audio and video data through an API.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/one-ai-language-solution-for-developers-now-in-aws-marketplace/

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This week we feature articles by Bojan Ciric, and Jad Esber & Scott Duke Kominers.

Additional reading from Shenyang Huang, Emanuele Rossi, Michael Galkin & Kellin Pelrine, Tanya O’Carroll & Julia Angwin, and Tony Stubblebine.

News comes from Vercel and Sitecore, Bloomreach, Solodev, and NewSpark[.]io.

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Opinion / Analysis

Knowledge graph adoption — sales pitch for getting executive support

Bojan Ciric has some good advice on getting buy-in.

This article is my take to resolve the communication gap where the knowledge graph concept and its potential to generate business outcomes is not properly communicated to the executives who have the decision capacity to give the “go” for knowledge graph enablement. (6 min).

https://medium.com/the-future-of-data/knowledge-graph-adoption-sales-pitch-for-executive-support-ebb1a662a096

Progressive decentralization: a high-level framework

Decentralization may be a core requirement of web3, but its utility is not limited to web3 or crypto. Nor is decentralization the answer to every business objective. It is also not easy. Jad Esber and Scott Duke Kominers (and of course a16z Crypto) are clearly believers in decentralization, but argue for a balanced and flexible approach on how, where, and when to adopt it. Their high-level framework is useful for broad senior management planning discussions. (9 min).

https://a16zcrypto.com/progressive-decentralization-a-high-level-framework/

More Reading

• For graph geeks. Temporal Graph Learning in 2023. via Towards Data Science 
• Will Europe’s privacy bill of rights ever truly be enforced? Good question. via The Markup
  
• Interesting… Medium embraces Mastodon via 3 Min Read

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Content technology news

Bloomreach adds catalog management feature

The new feature means business users can view, debug, and test new API call types against all of their product catalogs in one place.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/bloomreach-adds-catalog-management-feature/

Vercel and Sitecore partner

Vercel’s platform for front-end developers and Sitecore’s content management and other products, will help clients build composable digital experiences.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/vercel-and-sitecore-partner/

Solodev launches serverless CMS

The Serverless CMS provides composable services for traditional and headless websites and apps, including Jamstack frameworks like React.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/solodev-launches-serverless-cms/

NewSpark[.]io updates digital asset management platform

The Media Manager uses NewSpark’s AI tagging tool uses computer vision to analyze and automatically tag assets with relevant keywords and phrases.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/newspark-io-updates-digital-asset-management-platform/

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This week we feature articles by Raluca Budiu and Tony Seale.

Additional reading from Heather Hedden, Michael Lodato, and Raymond Camden.

News comes from Progress Software & Marklogic, Confluent & Immerok, and Crownpeak & CI&T.

You can view all previous issues on our site here.

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Opinion / Analysis

The state of mobile user experience

Raluca Budiu haș a useful update on mobile UX. It has improved overall – so much so that you may have missed some of the details (as I did!). Badiu’s report is helpful for designers and developers, but also for users who can improve their own experience by learning what has changed. (8 min).

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/state-mobile-ux/

Building your connected data catalog

In November we recommended an article by Tony Seale on how you can more effectively manage data by inverting the data growth and integration problems within your organization based on a model inspired by schema.org. This post follows-up with a look at how using a shared definition of a data catalog contributes to the same goal. While this is technically doable, as Seale points out it can be difficult organizationally. But it is still important to understand and consider the possibilities for strategic planning. (11 min).

https://medium.com/@Tonyseale/building-your-connected-data-catalog-634674b41770

More Reading

• A Taxonomy definition is a tricky thing. via The Accidental Taxonomist
• Sound familiar?… I am a Silicon Valley CEO and I need a solution to the Trolley Problem by EOD via Slackjaw
  
• Useful for developers… Multiple performant operations with the new Adobe Document Services REST APIs via Adobe Tech Blog

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Content technology news

Progress to acquire MarkLogic

Adds multi-model NoSQL database, semantic metadata management, and AI capabilities to its portfolio of products.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/progress-to-acquire-marklogic/

Confluent to acquire Immerok

Confluent plans to accelerate the launch of a Flink offering that is compatible with its managed Kafka service, Confluent Cloud.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/confluent-to-acquire-immerok/

CI&T and Crownpeak partner

The retail digital experience platform uses a composable commerce architecture with reusable components to support specialty retail.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/cit-and-crownpeak-partner/

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Wishing you all the best in the new year!

This week we feature articles by Kurt Cagle and Jacob Andreas.

Additional reading from Rand Fishkin, Vitalik Buterin, and Dan McCreary.

News comes from Acquia, Sinequa, Xpublisher, Drupal, and the European Broadcasting Union.

If you’ve missed any issues you can see them here.

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Opinion / Analysis

What is a Semantic File System?

The Semantic File System, or SFS, is a powerful potential application for knowledge graphs that moves beyond the base triple store space and instead points to what could be a truly distributed file system across any number of different kinds of servers.

Kurt Cagle makes an excellent case for transitioning to a semantic file system, eventually. He points to Inrupt’s Solid Project as an experimental implementation. Solid was announced two years ago with little news since (see recent activity at https://forum.solidproject.org). But read Cagle’s article first to stay ahead of your peers on this topic. (6 min).

https://thecaglereport.com/2022/11/28/what-is-a-semantic-file-system/

Language models as agent models

It is not easy to reconcile the actual limitations of machine learning with some of the impressive results of applications based on large language models, resulting in much debate about their ultimate utility.

Jacob Andreas argues that big language models can, at least in some very narrow situations, “model agency and communicative intent”, without being “in any general sense human-like”. His research and explanation make for a good case. The paper is clear, accessible, and an important read for anyone following language model debates. (28 min).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01681

More Reading

• A must read if you’re keeping up with blockchain applications… What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me via Vitalik Buterin
• Integrating siloed personal knowledge graphs to improve organizational knowledge. via Dan McCreary
• Why marketers, creators, and brands should start using Mastodon ASAP, if nothing else it is a free new channel. via SparkToro

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Content technology news

Acquia enhances customer data platform

Acquia CDP includes a unified data layer using Snowflake, direct SQL access, and integration with Acquia’s digital asset management system.
https://gilbane.com/2022/12/acquia-enhances-customer-data-platform/

Sinequa updates search cloud platform

Sinequa’s Neural Search benefits from four trained deep neural networks for improved relevance, ease of deployment, and tuning capabilities.
https://gilbane.com/2022/12/sinequa-updates-search-cloud-platform/

Drupal launches Drupal 10

Drupal 10 includes features for developers and content creators. A stronger developer and site builder and easier content authoring and editing.
https://gilbane.com/2022/12/drupal-launches-drupal-10-open-source-cms/

Xpublisher announces SaaS architecture

Beginning January 1, 2023, Xpublisher will be available in a high-security cloud environment and feature a new design, enhanced functionality.
https://gilbane.com/2022/12/xpublisher-announces-saas-architecture/

European Broadcasting Union announces EBUCorePlus

EBUCorePlus is specified using the ontology web language is strictly semantic. A free CorePlus Demonstrator Kit (CDK) helps with development skills.
https://gilbane.com/2022/12/european-broadcasting-union-announces-ebucoreplus/

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