Knowledge Graph vs. LLM – Bryon Jacob

Deep Future

Years ago, I got to be an advisor for this company called data.world, and at the time, they were just getting started on helping figuring out how do you converge all the data sets that are in the world and help people work with them and combine them and share them. They built this thing that was kind of like GitHub for data.

I was interested in it because I could see at the time where the world was going and we're going to need these much more advanced tools for being able to manage data. I tried to contribute my small way, but my favorite thing about it is that I got to know Bryon Jacob, who's the CTO of data.world.

Brian is delightful guy. This is one of the guys who's been thinking about the the nature of data, the structure of data, how we work with that in computers for his entire career. And he got onto a track that you could consider a little bit fringe, of using graph databases decades ago, the semantic models that we use to understand data from the thinking around RDF and the early semantic web.

And now what he's built is the system that when ingests any kind of data, it parses that out, takes it in a graph database and makes it accessible through a query language called SPARQL, which you'll hear us refer to. This is a kind of "advanced mode episode" and I know we're going to lose some people We refer to a lot of technical stuff that probably only data nerds are really going to be interested in. I won't be offended if you check out.

But, if you have any interest in data or the future of analyzing data and using data in AIS, you need to listen and understand this conversation. Brian is an expert. He's built one of the most important king pin tools for using all the data in large-scale organizations or projects within the new generative AI context. If you are trying to use something like ChatGPT or another LLM as an interface to structured data, you're doing it wrong, and I think you'll be convinced about that as you start to understand what we're discussing today.

So, hang in there. I promise this is a really REALLY valuable conversation for anybody who is trying to work at the forefront of using AIS for data analytics. I'm thrilled that we get to share this conversation with Bryon with you today.

Important Links

• SPARQL
• data.world
• HomeAway

About Bryon Jacob

Bryon Jacob is the CTO and co-founder of data.world - on a mission to build the world’s most meaningful, collaborative, and abundant data resource. Bryon is a recognized leader in building large-scale consumer internet systems and an expert in data integration solutions.

Bryon’s twenty years of academic and professional experience spans AI research at Case Western Reserve University, enterprise configuration software at Trilogy, and consumer web experience at Amazon and most recently in ten years building HomeAway.com. At HomeAway, Bryon oversaw platform development and the integration of thirty acquisitions wh