Applied Language Understanding

Applied Language Understanding

ALU + Benchling

ALU + Benchling

We are excited to announce that the ALU team has joined Benchling, the leading cloud-based platform for biotech R&D. We will be developing new AI capabilities to help scientists around the world unlock discoveries and accelerate innovation. As a part of this change, Connie AI, our supercharged AI

Confluence page macro support

Confluence page macro support

🔦Put Connie AI directly into your Confluence pages with the /connie ai macro. Connie AI excels at answering questions about the content in your Confluence site. But what if you wanted it to answer questions only about part of it? You can do this with the Connie AI macro. When

Evaluating GPT-4-Turbo

Evaluating GPT-4-Turbo

Last Monday (November 6, 2023) OpenAI held their first developer day conference and unveiled several new features. To us, one of the most interesting announcements was the launch of the new GPT-4-Turbo LLM. If you've used GPT-4 for any length of time you know that, at least through

Fine-tuning OpenAI's GPT-3.5

Fine-tuning OpenAI's GPT-3.5

There are very few – probably none – of our large language model prompts that I am completely happy with. Historically, like pretty much everyone in the industry, we leaned on "prompt engineering". I think this is an unfortunate term: it often feels more like playing "prompt whack-a-mole"

Participating in Atlassian's codegeist unleashed

Participating in Atlassian's codegeist unleashed

Every year, Atlassian organizes a hackathon called codegeist unleashed. This year it's fully devoted to applications of AI on Atlassian's products, another demonstration of Atlassian's vision and commitment to AI. For the hackathon, we set out to implement the ability to operate on structured

Introducing X-ray

Introducing X-ray

I am excited to announce the launch of a unique new feature for Connie AI we are calling "X-ray". Starting today, Connie not only offers correct and concise answers to any question that can be answered with the content of your Confluence site, but it also lets you

Evaluating Atlassian Intelligence

Evaluating Atlassian Intelligence

Back in April at their annual TEAM conference, Atlassian announced Atlassian Intelligence, a suite of AI-enabled features across the entire product line. This vision and level of commitment to AI's role in the future of every Atlassian product is very exciting. After a few months of eager anticipation,

Tables and structured data

Tables and structured data

Let's say I gave you a spreadsheet with the first ten rows of Spotify's Top 100 songs (for some day in the past). I could ask you a bunch of questions about this that you could answer quickly and accurately just by looking it over. * Which

Streaming OpenAI function calls

Streaming OpenAI function calls

Given the long latency that LLMs currently introduce doing inference, streaming the responses to the user as they are generated is almost a requirement in AI applications. Streaming decreases the perceived and actual wait for results – the user can start reading and reflecting on the results as soon as output

Signing API requests with the AWS SDK for JavaScript v3

Signing API requests with the AWS SDK for JavaScript v3

If you use the AWS SDK for JavaScript in e.g. a node.js application, invoking a command on an AWS service generally involves instantiating a client for the service (e.g. DynamoDBClient or S3Client) and invoking a method on that client. The client will do all the work to

Gaucho: our evaluation tool

Gaucho: our evaluation tool

We talked recently about the importance of evaluation in continously improving and keeping Connie AI honest. At the beginning, we were running our evaluations through command-line scripts. We would check the output files into git, and as part of the commit we would diff the results and visually check that

Second-order features

Second-order features

In logic and mathematics first-order logic quantifies only variables that range over individuals; second-order logic, in addition, also quantifies over relations. Thankfully for the both of us that's as deep as we are going to get on mathematics in this post. Instead I'd like to extend

People-centric question answering

People-centric question answering

Consider for a moment, you are at work and you have a question. Maybe you have an expense that you aren't sure how to submit for reimbursement. Perhaps you want to know how to get access to a new piece of software. I asked my wife, an environmental

Zen and the art of Q.A.

Zen and the art of Q.A.

Our initial RAG-based question answering system worked surprisingly well out of the box, a testament to how good foundation models are. They are also relatively flimsy: a change in a prompt may cause a whole category of questions to suddenly not be answered correctly. In order to make sure we

LLM Latency

The latency to complete inference with a large language model (LLM) such as OpenAI's GPT can be uncomfortably high. Multiply that by needing to make sequentially LLM requests and you have a recipe for a poor user experience. You have probably noticed or read about how ChatGPT for

Starting with a RAG

Starting with a RAG

Thousands of teams around the world use Confluence to collaborate and share information. Just like in any other system of record for knowledge, a lot of effort goes into writing documents, and it also takes effort to keep those documents updated. And, as time passes and organizations and their content

Welcome

It's not a secret that AI has unleashed a new wave of startups. The advances in foundation models have not only opened our collective imaginations, but also provided fertile grounds to build new tools that we didn't think feasible only a few years ago. We – Matt

Securing a custom backend for Forge

Securing a custom backend for Forge

Connie AI is built on Atlassian's Forge developer platform. This is Atlassian's latest and greatest developer platform for apps to enhance the experience of Confluence, Jira, Jira Service Management, and I'm sure more to come. The neat thing about Forge is that it comes