Sherpa UPDATE - 29 SEPTEMBER 2023#
Amir Feizpour
Summary#
Amir provides an update on Sherpa, a tool that aims to revolutionize knowledge management by creating an oracle that collaborates with humans. Sherpa acts as an oracle that coordinates and orchestrates knowledge-intensive work, facilitating collaboration and enhancing efficiency and effectiveness.
Topics:#
- Sherpa
Sherpa is a tool that aims to revolutionize knowledge management
Sherpa acts as an oracle that collaborates with humans
Sherpa facilitates collaboration and enhances efficiency and effectiveness
- Utilizing Resources for KnowledgeOps
Knowledge management involves utilizing externalized knowledge sources as well as tacit knowledge of experts
The goal is to leverage these resources effectively to achieve better outcomes
Close collaboration between humans and machines is required for optimal results
Large language models possess language skills, formal language abilities, and (basic) reasoning skills
- Capabilities and Functionalities of Sherpa
Sherpa aggregates information from various sources and provides connectors to different tools
Sherpa assists and coordinates a group of people in completing complex tasks
Sherpa is an open-source project with potential for commercial partnerships
- Challenges and Applications of Sherpa
Challenges that are being addressed include robustness, evaluation, and creating evaluation sets
Potential applications of Sherpa include research intensive workflows like writing sales proposals, research reports, and other complex business documents
Discussions include integration possibilities, data sources, user experience, multimodal capabilities, and managing context and memory
Amir Feizpour (Founder @ Aggregate Intellect)
Amir Feizpour is the founder of Aggregate Intellect (https://ai.science/), a Smart Knowledge Navigator platform for teams in service and science based sectors. Prior to this, Amir was an NLP Product Lead at Royal Bank of Canada, and held a postdoctoral position at University of Oxford conducting research on experimental quantum computing. Amir holds a PhD in Physics from University of Toronto.
