I feel, with the new personalized GPT’s you can build with ChatGPT, that would be the easiest way of creating such a bot.
If your knowledge of Python, Pandas, Tensorflow and / or PyTorch, and API’s is really good, you could build a model yourself. But that’s quite a bit harder to do.
I will suggest you follow the typical generative AI development lifecycle that was also mentioned in one of Andrew Ng’s course:
The steps are:
Step
Scope
My suggestions
Define a use case
Use case needs to be specific and narrow.
I will suggest you breakdown your big use cases into smaller ones. For example, start from answering student’s queries about event calendar.
Curate training data
Gather all the data for this specific use case. You will then understand what are the data pre-processing is needed too
Certain types of data are easier to be processed by LLMs, for example, PDF and text are easier than tables and images.
Experiment with LLMs
Test the performance on LLMs.
You can start from the largest LLMs, call the APIs. This is to proof your use case is feasible with current technology. Langchain is always needed. The challenge you will face later is probably related to data privacy, security, cost, etc. Then you will need to consider whether you will need open-source models. Among all open-source models, you will need to then consider if you need very large model or smaller models can meet your needs.
AI Governance
To build guardrails to ensure model’s output is helpful, honest, and honest?
LLMs have the risks, including hallcinations, generating harmful output, breach of data privacy, etc… The guardrails to be considered here include manual review of the output, prompt engineering so this model won’t be mis-used, any models like RLHF, or classification models.
Deployment
Platform to run this App? Load balance Cost management
How big is your user group? Do you need to manage the incoming queries if you are calling APIs so you can manage your cost?
Other security matters
IAM setup Intranet
These are the steps I could think of to use LLMs to build an App like a bot. If you are using Azure cloud, you can also consider CoPilot Studio to start. But it is then tightly coupled with Microsoft. Otherwise you could start to build it using Python.
Thank you for you answer.
After following the introductory course to Lang Chain I think that a framework like this really simplifies the job of implementing a good chatbot.
It introduces some concepts as chains, agents, evaluations, ecc. that help you very much.
It seems interesting also the idea of introducing the use of a vectorial database to reduce the number of queries towards ChatGpt.
Thank you for your advices.
Yes it is important to define a roadmap for the project, probably it would be useful to try a little spike with a few of data and features to uderstand better the context.
My doubts are on the massive use of a proprietary solutions like ChatGpt, because for small projects a solutions like Rasa could be implemented on premise or in a private cloud.
Howere following the course on LangChain I can see that it allows you to use also vectorial databses and agents to reduce the numeber of calls to tools like ChatGpt.
Probably this could be a good compromise.