Re:I Received an AI Email
by immibis on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @05:42AM
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Unstructured*
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Re:I Received an AI Email
by whiplash451 on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @05:59AM
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No, I really meant structured. Extracting data from structured documents is surprisingly hard when you need very high accuracy.
What I mean by structured is: invoices, documents containing tables, etc.
Extracting useful data from fully unstructured content is very hard IMO and potentially above the capacity of LLMs (depending on your definition of "useful" and "unstructured")
But this is why I made my complexity statement in my other reply.
Why are firms sending around invoices, tables instead of parseable data. Oh I know the argument, because "so hard to cooperate" on standards, etc.
Madness.
Partly because the standards, such as X12, have a high startup cost to use them, they aren't very opinionated about the actual content, and you have to get the counterparty on board to use them.