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by DebtDeflation 1057 days ago
The killer app for large enterprises is Q&A against the corporate knowledgebase(s). Big companies have an insane amount of tribal knowledge locked away in documents sitting on Sharepoint, on Box, on file servers, etc. Best case scenario, their employees can do keyword search against a subset of those documents. Chunk those docs, run them through an embedding process, store the embeddings in a vector store, let employees ask questions, do a similarity search against the vector store, pass the top results and the question to the LMM, get an actual answer back to present to the employee. This unlocks a ton of knowledge and can be a massive productivity booster.
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So the killer app for LLMs and AI in general is...a librarian?
Yes! Never in my career have I seen an organization do a good job of organizing institutional knowledge and making it easily available to employees. It'd be a huge benefit to many organizations to be able to ask questions of the collective text holdings.