of financial times has a new generative AI chatbot called Ask FT that can answer subscriber questions. Similar to general purpose AI bots (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, etc.), users can expect well-chosen natural language answers to whatever they want to know. However, that answer is derived from information the outlet has published over the decades, rather than from sources that are difficult to describe or explain. is subject to ongoing legal action. So don't expect to get an answer for the best fettuccini alfredo recipe.
When you ask, “Who runs Microsoft's AI products?” the tool returns the latest answers and Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleiman to lead new AI team. I mentioned the news announced this week that
Mustafa Suleiman currently reports to Satya Nadella as head of Microsoft AI, overseeing Microsoft's consumer AI products and divisions. [1,2,3]. He was hired from Inflection AI to expand Microsoft's focus on personal consumer generative AI development. [1,2,3,4,6].
The numbers enclosed in parentheses are F.T. List the articles from which you obtained the information below your answer. It also indicates when these articles were written. In the case of this Microsoft question, the company says he obtained information ranging from March 1, 2023 to March 20, 2024.
However, we found inconsistencies in some of the answers. At the time of our testing, Nikki Haley answered the question who is running for the 2024 US presidential election, even though she had already dropped out of the race. was included in.
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Available to hundreds of paid subscribers. F.T. The Professional tier is aimed at business professionals and organizations. Ask FT is currently powered by Claude, a large-scale language model (LLM) developed by Anthropic, but this is subject to change.In an interview with The Verge, F.T. Chief Product Officer Manager Lindsey Jayne said the outlet is “approaching this as 'model agnostic' and considering which one best fits our needs.”
You can answer questions about current events, like how much money Intel received from the U.S. government under the CHIPS Act, as well as broader questions like the impact of cryptocurrencies on the environment. The tool then F.T.Browse the archives and summarize relevant information with citations.
Ask FT also answers questions that require you to dig deeper into the FT's archives. When asked how YouTube started, it correctly answered that it was founded in February 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.
“We did a ton of testing internally and used that to refine the way we instruct our models and build our code,” Jain says. “In this first 500 group, we are tracking all questions and answers as well as user feedback.”
Last year, we tried a similar tool introduced by a digital outlet owned by marketing company Foundry. mac world, PC worldand Technical advisor. However, back then it wasn't as useful as Ask FT. My colleague Mia Sato noticed that simple questions like when his last iPod Nano was released gave inaccurate results.
“I don’t think you can be a 135-year-old organization if you’re not constantly evolving and responding to moments like this,” Jain says. “But you have to be smart and not just jump on the hype train. Otherwise people are just playing it for the novelty and then they end up going on with their lives.” Masu.”
Most subscribers are not yet able to try the chatbot. Ask FT remains in beta for now. F.T. Continue testing and evaluation.
