And why getting information back out of one is harder than it looks Almost everyone who works with documents has, at some point, been surprised by a PDF. Text that cannot be selected. A copied paragraph that pastes as gibberish. A table that arrives in a spreadsheet as a single column. An extraction tool that...
Category: Knowledge
Building an AI That Can’t Phone Home
Imagine an assistant on a ship at sea. The crew can ask it questions about the vessel’s technical manuals: how to service a pump, what a warning light means, which checklist applies. There’s no internet connection for days at a time, and even in port, the client doesn’t want sensitive documentation leaving their control. That...
What Offline AI Can’t Do Made Me Appreciate Frontier AI More
A cloud AI chat feels weightless. Type a question, get an answer, close the tab. Nothing about the experience suggests machinery. I spent the last few months building the opposite: a sovereign AI knowledge system for a client, designed to answer questions from a fixed set of a vessel’s technical documentation, with no cloud dependency...
