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One of the core things we’re going to have to contend with in AI is that even the most advanced models in the word can’t have all the relevant knowledge needed to be useful, because everyone has different use-cases and ways they’ve designed their workflows. 

Perhaps most importantly, as you get into the enterprise, everyone has entirely different access levels to corporate knowledge and information. Continual learning at the model layer, even at a single enterprise level, is near impossible because every user knows and has access to something different than another user.  

This isn’t like coding where by and large most developers can access all the relevant stuff to their job. On a single banking team, bankers have entirely different sets of documents they’re ever allowed to see. Sanitizing this is hard and having the model keep secrets is impossible.

This is why the context layer is going to always be the core part of the AI stack for applied use cases to turn general models turn into useful agents. Can’t fight the physics on this one.

<p>One of the core things we’re going to have to contend with in AI is that even the most advanced models in the word can’t have all the relevant knowledge needed to be useful, because everyone has different use-cases and ways they’ve designed their workflows. 

Perhaps most importantly, as you get into the enterprise, everyone has entirely different access levels to corporate knowledge and information. Continual learning at the model layer, even at a single enterprise level, is near impossible because every user knows and has access to something different than another user.  

This isn’t like coding where by and large most developers can access all the relevant stuff to their job. On a single banking team, bankers have entirely different sets of documents they’re ever allowed to see. Sanitizing this is hard and having the model keep secrets is impossible.

This is why the context layer is going to always be the core part of the AI stack for applied use cases to turn general models turn into useful agents. Can’t fight the physics on this one.</p>

Harrison Chase

A retweet from Box CEO Aaron Levie touching on a fundamental limitation of advanced AI models: they cannot have all the context needed for every situation, highlighting a core challenge the industry must address.