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A conversational user interface (CUI) is proving to be extremely popular with users because it provides such a natural form of communication. Instead of typing a message to your computer, you simply speak to it.

Behind the scenes AI transforms the spoken words into queries and generates appropriate responses. The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz issued a report titled “It’s Not a Computer, It’s a Companion!” that looks at the extraordinary relationships some users develop with CUI-enabled AI systems.

“We believe we’re on the cusp of a significant societal shift: AI companions will soon become commonplace,” according to the report. “Generative AI models will fundamentally change our relationship with computers, putting them beside us as coworkers, friends, family members, and even lovers.”

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Creating a Coworker

At Datafi we’ve incorporated a CUI with our Data Chat as a way to create a coworker—a  personal assistant—that can help each employee perform better in their job. Our Data Chat serves as the front end to our powerful Datafi Knowledge Agent that translates conversational language—whether spoken, or typed—into intelligent queries that securely scour an organization’s data stores to formulate answers. We transform data into information. In the process we give organizations the ability to securely push information out to wherever it is needed to enhance productivity and profitability.

Providing our intelligent Data Chat interface is a key element because users find it such an easy and engaging way in which to search for the information they need. The ability to use everyday speech provides a significant paradigm shift in the ways in which users interact with technology. This sense of personalization is amplified by the fact that the Datafi Knowledge Agent is continually learning about a user’s workday needs. Day by day our Knowledge Agent becomes an ever more valuable personal assistant.

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A Coworker that Knows the Rules

Datafi works as a unifying interface to an organization’s entire data ecosystem—whether it is stored in a data warehouse, Sharepoint, Snowflake, Salesforce, email, Slack, or a world of other sources. Datafi provides a library of point and click connectors, allowing an organization’s admin to choose which data stores and applications to include.

To ensure security, policy, and governance, Datafi also makes it easy for admins to set access controls. Datafi enforces attribute-based access control (ABAC) security that stays with the data, ensuring the contextual security required for AI. ABAC is used by the most security-focused enterprises because it enforces access control at a deeper level, directly on the data itself, enhancing data security. This means that if a person requests data, the Datafi Knowledge Agent will respond only with information they are allowed to see—masking out fields, for example, that contain PII or other sensitive information.

You could say that our Data Chat-enabled coworker knows—and obeys—the rules.

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