by Martin White | Feb 23, 2023 | AI Governance, Conferences, Research, Search
In my post on the Alan Turing Institute Foundation Models event I noted that the event had helped me develop a list of issues that were not discussed at the event. This is not a criticism of the event – the event could easily have run to three days and still there...
by Martin White | Feb 23, 2023 | AI Governance, Conferences, Research
This symposium, organized by the Alan Turing Institute, was held at the IET, Savoy Place, and attracted around 350 delegates, including what seemed to be the entire UK machine learning research community. There were seven presentations and a panel session that I was...
by Martin White | Feb 18, 2023 | AI Governance, Search
I have now updated my list of enterprise search vendors, and was quite surprised to find that since January last year only two had disappeared but 17 had arrived, taking the total to 87. I’m sure this is not a comprehensive list. If the company you work for, or use,...
by Martin White | May 11, 2022 | AI Governance, Digital workplace, Information management, Research, Search
In order to be awarded my chemistry degree in 1970 I had to pass a reading comprehension examination in German. This was because at that time the Beilstein and Gmelin handbooks on organic and inorganic chemistry were primarily published in German, as was Angewandte...
by Martin White | May 5, 2022 | AI Governance, Information management, Research, Search
The message coming from the enterprise search vendors at present is that AI (usually vaguely defined) can solve all search problems and present a very high percentage of relevant items on the first page of results. This ‘machine’ ranking of relevance is determined by...
by Martin White | Apr 27, 2022 | AI Governance, Information management, Search
In any organisation there are multiple invisible silos. These silos are based on access permissions and the reason they are invisible is because the user has no means of knowing that they are not seeing the entire enterprise-wide corpus of information. A feature of...