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Jed Cawthorne, MBA, CIP, IG

Jed is an experienced strategy consultant, Information & Knowledge Management (IKM) practitioner and and enterprise search expert. He is an Association of Intelligent Information Management (AIIM) member of over 20 years, a Certified Information Professional (CIP), and an AIIM award winner for my work in organizing and advertising the Toronto (First Canadian) chapters activities, and a member of the 2022 intake to the AIIM Company of Fellows.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

How Generative AI Can Improve Enterprise Search

I was inspired to write this post after listening to an episode of “This Week in Windows” on Leo Laporte’s TWIT.TV podcast network. Leo and one of his co-hosts got into an interesting discussion on the use of Generative AI like ChatGTP with respect to search on the internet. Leo seemed to be making the same mistake many do, and confusing the concepts of using a search engine to answer a query by finding sources of information, and asking a Generative AI system based on a Large Language Model (LLM) to answer a question. The two things are similar but not the same, and what was being discussed was actually adding ChatGTP to Bing, bringing two technologies together to search for information.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AI in the Real World

Recently, I was lucky enough to be part of a networking group that got to see a real world demo of Chat GPT in a highly practical use case. The use case was focused on internal search within an organization and utilized the strengths of Chat GPT as a Large Language Model (LLM). The organization demonstrating the use case explained they used a conversational use interface (UI) that focused on user experience and making it easier for the user to find the information they were looking for without having specific domain knowledge or expertise in "prompt engineering." The demo sparked great conversations about what various organizations are doing with pre-trained Large Language Model tools like those provided by Open AI and Microsoft.

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14 Steps to a Successful ECM Implementation

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