Gilbane Advisor: KG LLM symbiosis, UX-design tools, RAG, BigQuery
This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagle, and Caleb Sponheim & Megan Brown.
Additional reading comes from Tom Krazit, Dean Allemang, and Andrew Zuo.
News comes from Progress Software, Adobe, Google Workspace, and MongoDB.
All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index
Opinion / Analysis…
RAG, context and knowledge graphs
“These factors combine to make knowledge graphs powerful tools for managing large language models, while at the same time LLMs can be used to simplify the process of querying these databases.”
Kurt Cagle does a nice job describing the relative strengths and weaknesses of LLMs and knowledge graphs, and explaining why the combo is a worthy goal. (8 min)
AI UX-design tools are not ready for primetime: status update
We hear a lot about 2024 being the year of deploying AI applications in production environments, and while this is directionally correct, it is not clear how quickly this will happen, or exactly where it will be successful.
Caleb Sponheim and Megan Brown’s research finds that currently “designers use AI, just not for design”. We can expect to hear more statements of the form “X use AI, just not for X”. (6 min)
More Reading
- Follow up on LLMs and knowledge from last weeks issue… LLMs, knowledge graphs and property graphs via Dean Allemang
- Google Cloud’s Andi Gutmans: AI will run your databases while you sleep. All? via Runtime
- What is an AI PC? and When will the AI bubble burst? via Andrew Zuo
Content technology news…
Progress releases Sitefinity 15.1
Introduces AI-powered conversion propensity scoring, content classification for faster content editing, and improved customer data modeling.
https://investors.progress.com/news-releases/news-release-details/progress-announces-advanced-ai-capabilities-accelerate-delivery
Adobe introduces Frame.io V4
Integrations with Photoshop and Workfront streamline collaboration for Enterprise’s Content Supply Chain; as part of Adobe GenStudio can be combined with Express and Firefly.
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Introduces-Next-Generation-of-Frame.io-to-Accelerate-Content-Workflow-and-Collaboration-for-Every-Creative-Project/default.aspx
Google enhances Google Workspace
Google Vids, our new AI-powered video creation app for work, will sit alongside our other productivity tools like Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/new-generative-ai-and-security-innovations
MongoDB expands collaboration with Google Cloud
Google Cloud Vertex AI extension for MongoDB Atlas and Spark integration with BigQuery simplifies building GenAI applications with proprietary data.
https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongo-db-expands-collaboration-with-google-cloud-at-google-next
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Originally published at https://gilbane.com on April 17, 2024.
