Generative AI’s Radical Impact on How We Use and Share Information
Sam Fahmy
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
GenAI will transform documents – just as papyrus did in 2900 BC and the printing press in 1455 AD.
As we enter what some would say is the third document revolution, it’s undeniable that documents are the source of most information and essential to everything we do.
Just think of it: our life starts with a document (birth certificate) and ends with one (death certificate). In between there are thousands of documents that help us define and navigate almost every aspect of our lives. From books, blogs, research papers, historical records, religious texts, and articles that inform us to tax forms, contracts, leases, loan documents, order forms, insurance policies, and invoices that are critical to managing our lives. We use IDs, passports, and vaccination cards (remember those?) to help identify ourselves and rely on countless presentations, reports, guides, emails, text messages, and more to understand and navigate every aspect of our lives. You get the idea. Documents are central to our lives and society.
Since papyrus was first invented in ancient Egypt around 2900 BCE, portable documents (as opposed to stone tablets or carvings) have served as the primary way to capture, store, express, and share information, the lifeline of civilization. More than 4,500 years later, in 1455, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in Germany, revolutionizing documents again and ushering in the Renaissance. Today, over 500 years later, we’re on the cusp of the next document revolution with generative AI (GenAI) which promises to transform the very way we use, share, and interact with documents.
Make no mistake, tremendous progress has been made in the ways we create, use, store, and share documents over the past 500 years. Things like public libraries, bookstores, word processing technology, document management software, and the internet, etc. But none of these advancements altered the fundamental nature of how use or interact with documents.
Even today, finding and using information from documents is cumbersome. First, we must identify what information we need, then sift and search through storage boxes, drives, or devices (physical or digital) to find the right document(s). Then we must open and read through the document(s) to find the right information and understand the context of the information being shared, and only then is the information potentially useful. If the document is in a different language, forget about it.
This outdated yet persistent paradigm (box/folder/file/page/paragraph) limits our ability to capture the value of information from documents. Since we all rely on documents throughout our lives, our ability to learn, work, innovate, advance, and communicate is curtailed.
Recent advancements in documents have revolved around better ways to create, store, secure, and share documents. It’s no wonder the names of some of the world’s most modern documents include words like “box,” “point,” or “drive”. These names all predictably express the tools’ primary objective: document storage.
While these tools are valuable for document storage and sharing, they do very little to advance our ability to actually use the information contained in documents.
But isn’t that the primary purpose of documents?
It seems absurd given how advanced our digital world is. We can go to Google and find virtually anything online or to Amazon to buy almost anything, yet finding information in documents is still stuck in the Guttenberg era.
Until now.
Enter GenAI – technology that can instantly scan the contents of documents, then find and articulate the information we need, when we need it, using natural language queries, summaries, questions, and answers – completely bypassing the cumbersome, limiting drive/folder/file/page process.
GenAI-powered document tools like Docufai allow anyone to get instant summaries and answers based on the information in their documents by asking questions in natural language. There’s no need to know which document, page, or paragraph contains the information, where that document is stored, or even the language a document is in. With Docufai, finding the information you need is as simple as adding your documents and asking for the information you need. There’s no expertise needed or additional tools required. It’s information minus the pain, and it’s quite magical.
GenAI will make the vast amounts of information trapped in documents and out of reach readily accessible, easily understandable, and incredibly valuable, making us more informed and productive. It will change humanity for the better.
Say hi to the third information revolution.
Generative AI’s Radical Impact on How We Use and Share Information
Sam Fahmy
/
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
GenAI will transform documents – just as papyrus did in 2900 BC and the printing press in 1455 AD.
As we enter what some would say is the third document revolution, it’s undeniable that documents are the source of most information and essential to everything we do.
Just think of it: our life starts with a document (birth certificate) and ends with one (death certificate). In between there are thousands of documents that help us define and navigate almost every aspect of our lives. From books, blogs, research papers, historical records, religious texts, and articles that inform us to tax forms, contracts, leases, loan documents, order forms, insurance policies, and invoices that are critical to managing our lives. We use IDs, passports, and vaccination cards (remember those?) to help identify ourselves and rely on countless presentations, reports, guides, emails, text messages, and more to understand and navigate every aspect of our lives. You get the idea. Documents are central to our lives and society.
Since papyrus was first invented in ancient Egypt around 2900 BCE, portable documents (as opposed to stone tablets or carvings) have served as the primary way to capture, store, express, and share information, the lifeline of civilization. More than 4,500 years later, in 1455, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in Germany, revolutionizing documents again and ushering in the Renaissance. Today, over 500 years later, we’re on the cusp of the next document revolution with generative AI (GenAI) which promises to transform the very way we use, share, and interact with documents.
Make no mistake, tremendous progress has been made in the ways we create, use, store, and share documents over the past 500 years. Things like public libraries, bookstores, word processing technology, document management software, and the internet, etc. But none of these advancements altered the fundamental nature of how use or interact with documents.
Even today, finding and using information from documents is cumbersome. First, we must identify what information we need, then sift and search through storage boxes, drives, or devices (physical or digital) to find the right document(s). Then we must open and read through the document(s) to find the right information and understand the context of the information being shared, and only then is the information potentially useful. If the document is in a different language, forget about it.
This outdated yet persistent paradigm (box/folder/file/page/paragraph) limits our ability to capture the value of information from documents. Since we all rely on documents throughout our lives, our ability to learn, work, innovate, advance, and communicate is curtailed.
Recent advancements in documents have revolved around better ways to create, store, secure, and share documents. It’s no wonder the names of some of the world’s most modern documents include words like “box,” “point,” or “drive”. These names all predictably express the tools’ primary objective: document storage.
While these tools are valuable for document storage and sharing, they do very little to advance our ability to actually use the information contained in documents.
But isn’t that the primary purpose of documents?
It seems absurd given how advanced our digital world is. We can go to Google and find virtually anything online or to Amazon to buy almost anything, yet finding information in documents is still stuck in the Guttenberg era.
Until now.
Enter GenAI – technology that can instantly scan the contents of documents, then find and articulate the information we need, when we need it, using natural language queries, summaries, questions, and answers – completely bypassing the cumbersome, limiting drive/folder/file/page process.
GenAI-powered document tools like Docufai allow anyone to get instant summaries and answers based on the information in their documents by asking questions in natural language. There’s no need to know which document, page, or paragraph contains the information, where that document is stored, or even the language a document is in. With Docufai, finding the information you need is as simple as adding your documents and asking for the information you need. There’s no expertise needed or additional tools required. It’s information minus the pain, and it’s quite magical.
GenAI will make the vast amounts of information trapped in documents and out of reach readily accessible, easily understandable, and incredibly valuable, making us more informed and productive. It will change humanity for the better.
Say hi to the third information revolution.
Generative AI’s Radical Impact on How We Use and Share Information
Sam Fahmy
/
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
GenAI will transform documents – just as papyrus did in 2900 BC and the printing press in 1455 AD.
As we enter what some would say is the third document revolution, it’s undeniable that documents are the source of most information and essential to everything we do.
Just think of it: our life starts with a document (birth certificate) and ends with one (death certificate). In between there are thousands of documents that help us define and navigate almost every aspect of our lives. From books, blogs, research papers, historical records, religious texts, and articles that inform us to tax forms, contracts, leases, loan documents, order forms, insurance policies, and invoices that are critical to managing our lives. We use IDs, passports, and vaccination cards (remember those?) to help identify ourselves and rely on countless presentations, reports, guides, emails, text messages, and more to understand and navigate every aspect of our lives. You get the idea. Documents are central to our lives and society.
Since papyrus was first invented in ancient Egypt around 2900 BCE, portable documents (as opposed to stone tablets or carvings) have served as the primary way to capture, store, express, and share information, the lifeline of civilization. More than 4,500 years later, in 1455, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in Germany, revolutionizing documents again and ushering in the Renaissance. Today, over 500 years later, we’re on the cusp of the next document revolution with generative AI (GenAI) which promises to transform the very way we use, share, and interact with documents.
Make no mistake, tremendous progress has been made in the ways we create, use, store, and share documents over the past 500 years. Things like public libraries, bookstores, word processing technology, document management software, and the internet, etc. But none of these advancements altered the fundamental nature of how use or interact with documents.
Even today, finding and using information from documents is cumbersome. First, we must identify what information we need, then sift and search through storage boxes, drives, or devices (physical or digital) to find the right document(s). Then we must open and read through the document(s) to find the right information and understand the context of the information being shared, and only then is the information potentially useful. If the document is in a different language, forget about it.
This outdated yet persistent paradigm (box/folder/file/page/paragraph) limits our ability to capture the value of information from documents. Since we all rely on documents throughout our lives, our ability to learn, work, innovate, advance, and communicate is curtailed.
Recent advancements in documents have revolved around better ways to create, store, secure, and share documents. It’s no wonder the names of some of the world’s most modern documents include words like “box,” “point,” or “drive”. These names all predictably express the tools’ primary objective: document storage.
While these tools are valuable for document storage and sharing, they do very little to advance our ability to actually use the information contained in documents.
But isn’t that the primary purpose of documents?
It seems absurd given how advanced our digital world is. We can go to Google and find virtually anything online or to Amazon to buy almost anything, yet finding information in documents is still stuck in the Guttenberg era.
Until now.
Enter GenAI – technology that can instantly scan the contents of documents, then find and articulate the information we need, when we need it, using natural language queries, summaries, questions, and answers – completely bypassing the cumbersome, limiting drive/folder/file/page process.
GenAI-powered document tools like Docufai allow anyone to get instant summaries and answers based on the information in their documents by asking questions in natural language. There’s no need to know which document, page, or paragraph contains the information, where that document is stored, or even the language a document is in. With Docufai, finding the information you need is as simple as adding your documents and asking for the information you need. There’s no expertise needed or additional tools required. It’s information minus the pain, and it’s quite magical.
GenAI will make the vast amounts of information trapped in documents and out of reach readily accessible, easily understandable, and incredibly valuable, making us more informed and productive. It will change humanity for the better.
Say hi to the third information revolution.
Generative AI’s Radical Impact on How We Use and Share Information
Sam Fahmy
/
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
GenAI will transform documents – just as papyrus did in 2900 BC and the printing press in 1455 AD.
As we enter what some would say is the third document revolution, it’s undeniable that documents are the source of most information and essential to everything we do.
Just think of it: our life starts with a document (birth certificate) and ends with one (death certificate). In between there are thousands of documents that help us define and navigate almost every aspect of our lives. From books, blogs, research papers, historical records, religious texts, and articles that inform us to tax forms, contracts, leases, loan documents, order forms, insurance policies, and invoices that are critical to managing our lives. We use IDs, passports, and vaccination cards (remember those?) to help identify ourselves and rely on countless presentations, reports, guides, emails, text messages, and more to understand and navigate every aspect of our lives. You get the idea. Documents are central to our lives and society.
Since papyrus was first invented in ancient Egypt around 2900 BCE, portable documents (as opposed to stone tablets or carvings) have served as the primary way to capture, store, express, and share information, the lifeline of civilization. More than 4,500 years later, in 1455, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in Germany, revolutionizing documents again and ushering in the Renaissance. Today, over 500 years later, we’re on the cusp of the next document revolution with generative AI (GenAI) which promises to transform the very way we use, share, and interact with documents.
Make no mistake, tremendous progress has been made in the ways we create, use, store, and share documents over the past 500 years. Things like public libraries, bookstores, word processing technology, document management software, and the internet, etc. But none of these advancements altered the fundamental nature of how use or interact with documents.
Even today, finding and using information from documents is cumbersome. First, we must identify what information we need, then sift and search through storage boxes, drives, or devices (physical or digital) to find the right document(s). Then we must open and read through the document(s) to find the right information and understand the context of the information being shared, and only then is the information potentially useful. If the document is in a different language, forget about it.
This outdated yet persistent paradigm (box/folder/file/page/paragraph) limits our ability to capture the value of information from documents. Since we all rely on documents throughout our lives, our ability to learn, work, innovate, advance, and communicate is curtailed.
Recent advancements in documents have revolved around better ways to create, store, secure, and share documents. It’s no wonder the names of some of the world’s most modern documents include words like “box,” “point,” or “drive”. These names all predictably express the tools’ primary objective: document storage.
While these tools are valuable for document storage and sharing, they do very little to advance our ability to actually use the information contained in documents.
But isn’t that the primary purpose of documents?
It seems absurd given how advanced our digital world is. We can go to Google and find virtually anything online or to Amazon to buy almost anything, yet finding information in documents is still stuck in the Guttenberg era.
Until now.
Enter GenAI – technology that can instantly scan the contents of documents, then find and articulate the information we need, when we need it, using natural language queries, summaries, questions, and answers – completely bypassing the cumbersome, limiting drive/folder/file/page process.
GenAI-powered document tools like Docufai allow anyone to get instant summaries and answers based on the information in their documents by asking questions in natural language. There’s no need to know which document, page, or paragraph contains the information, where that document is stored, or even the language a document is in. With Docufai, finding the information you need is as simple as adding your documents and asking for the information you need. There’s no expertise needed or additional tools required. It’s information minus the pain, and it’s quite magical.
GenAI will make the vast amounts of information trapped in documents and out of reach readily accessible, easily understandable, and incredibly valuable, making us more informed and productive. It will change humanity for the better.
Say hi to the third information revolution.