Project Alexandria: Using AI to build a knowledge base fit for humans

Imagine a technology that can automatically discover every single project, team, event, product and process inside an organization - and keep these up to date as the organisation evolves and changes. This is what we are building with Alexandria, a Microsoft Research project that uses machine learning to automatically extract critical business knowledge into a single, unified knowledge base.

In this video, we describe the key themes of the project, and our close collaboration with the Viva Topics team. With Viva Topics we have built an enterprise knowledge system now available to millions of customers of the Microsoft 365 productivity system.

[rafaelfv]

It seems there is great potential, but even with current state-of-the-art AI it seems too easy to miss the point and most of the value by simply not making the experience right, or not offering the right subset of capabilities to the right usage scenarios, or not achieving the required depth. How can I learn more about your vision of how it would work and the use cases it would handle?

[austendavey]

this seems like it could be leveraged to have a perverse control over all employee actions, It does seem useful i definitely see its applications but the ability to allow management that before was totally hands off, as long as profits are good and there's no complaints theirs no issues. I've seen it in play already, excessive monitoring of work actions leads to an overbearing sense of anxiety in the workplace and frowns upon "human" interactions. with this technology they wont see "A mother checked her phone to make sure her kid made it home safe" they'll get "Employee #2567353 has 10 minutes of non-profitable actions"

AI has so much potential to allow us to take a break from fighting to just survive. if this is the way its headed, It won't be long until were all in shock collars to make sure we don't bark .