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About 8 years back, I was leading an engineering team which was the escalation path for customer …

About 8 years back, I was leading an engineering team which was the escalation path for customer support. We were sitting on a large corpus of support tickets but didn't have any insights. I was amazed when word2vec came out and blew my mind. So I built a language model that trained on support ticket data. I modeled system logs attached to support tickets as an NLP model to predict what was going to fail next and for which customer. Never made it to prod but was a great tool for me to see where I want to budget my team's time. This is way before all the LLM and Generator models, but it was such a fun project.

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Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.

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>This is way before all the LLM and Generator models, but it was such a fun project. That means something more sophisticated has to exist today and should be commercially available. Can anyone explain to what extent companies use this stuff in their interaction with customers, and how successful is it? (Somehow I still see AI still as one-off things people do for fun or AI being used to hype up rather mundane software.)

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We have a corpus or database of programs that follow logic but with no simulation, so it represents knowledge to solve a problem yet all we have control over is the parameters (inputs). In this case, input is functional logical content (a program), describing the resolution of corpus details. The model solves its integrated, corporate logic, and our output is an interpretation of that individual program. Now our task is to swap out this entire database for something like it, but not exactly the same. The output becomes the input to this new matrix. The individual program persists, but everything is the next generation. With a little book-keeping, the programs do our dark libidinal bidding...

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There's a YC startup that's doing something along these lines. They recently posted something, don't remember if it was on front page or an "YC startup jobs" email.

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