The power of AI is its ability to turn unstructured data into structured data
Matt Hartmanmatthewhartman.substack.com
The power of AI is its ability to turn unstructured data into structured data
There is also active research into understanding whether AI can pretrain on its own content. This is what chess-playing AIs already do, learning by playing games against themselves, but it is not yet clear whether it will work for LLMs. Because of the variety of data sources used, learning is not always a good thing. AI can also learn biases, error
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Almost every company I talk to, and basically every solution vendor, has been pushing for people to use AI to “talk-to-your-data,” an approach allows the AI to retrieve content from a company’s proprietary databases and then work with the documents and data it retrieves. The problem is that AIs hallucinate, or make up plausible information, all the... See more
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But if genAI is going to transform the organization, it doesn’t make sense to wait to start preparing data. We — and most of the survey respondents — agree that genAI is a transformative capability. The job to make a large organization’s important data ready for AI could easily take several years. The time to start is now.
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language models are not intelligent in the ways that even small children are intelligent, but they are already superhuman at tasks like summarization, translation (both linguistic and conceptual), and association. And when you apply those skills to artfully curated source material written by equally, but differently, gifted humans, magic can happen... See more
Steven Johnson • Revenge of the Humanities
