You can now explore Futures Platform’s extensive foresight database in a brand-new, interactive way. AI futurist, a generative AI model, can answer your questions about future developments in any topic, drawing insights directly from our database.
AI Futurist is much more than a simple AI-based text generator. It's a smart and creative assistant that leverages the power of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to produce insights that are grounded, coherent, and engaging.
Whether your foresight task is to develop scenarios, scout and analyse trends, write a vision statement, or create a report, AI Futurist can assist you by generating high-quality and relevant insights, drawn directly from the expertly-curated content library of Futures Platform.
Here's how AI Futurist can help you in your foresight work:
- It can provide answers to queries on any topic related to the future, such as technology, society, environment, economy, politics, culture, etc.
- It can retrieve and incorporate relevant and diverse content from the data sources, based on the query and the context, to enrich and enhance the generated texts.
- It can analyse the data and generate outputs through the lens of your unique context.
- It can adapt to different styles, tones, and formats, such as formal, informal, academic, journalistic, narrative, descriptive, etc.
Do you want to start your free trial of the AI Futurist? Sign up below.
How to get the most value out of AI Futurist?
Explore the different use cases for AI Futurist and find tips on how to get the most value out of this feature in our prompting guide here.
Your feedback will play a crucial role in shaping the development of AI Futurist
We are actively gathering feedback from our users to continuously improve AI Futurist. Your insights on the quality and depth of the answers are particularly valuable to us.
You can rate AI Futurist's answers and share your feedback with us directly on the platform by clicking the icons on the right side of the AI Futurist chat window.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How does AI Futurist work?
AI Futurist operates based on the concept of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), which is a technique that combines text generation with information retrieval. In other words, AI Futurist can search and retrieve relevant and diverse content from all data on Futures Platform, and use this data to generate content that is not only fluent and coherent, but also grounded and informative.
For more details, see the AI Futurist technical specification document here.
What information does AI Futurist use to answer questions?
AI Futurist utilises the texts from Futures Platform’s phenomena cards, as well as your own content that you've added into your workspace, to provide answers to your queries.
Currently, AI Futurist can only process content in English. Any materials in other languages in your workspace will not be utilised.
How is AI Futurist different from general Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT?
Factual Accuracy and Relevance
- AI Futurist relies only on expert-generated, verified and curated foresight data, which provides outputs that are more relevant and factually accurate compared to general LLMs, which often synthesise information from a broad pool of diverse, unfiltered sources.
Control and Customisation
- In contrast to general LLMs designed for broader applications, AI Futurist is tailored to the specific domain of foresight. You retain complete ownership and control over your foresight data, allowing you to constantly update and refine it according to your evolving needs. This level of control and customisation is not possible with general LLMs, where the underlying data is often proprietary and opaque.
Transparency and Explainability
- AI Futurist's outputs are directly linked to specific pieces of the curated data, allowing an understanding of the source and rationale behind each insight. This transparency is absent in general LLM outputs, which can be opaque and difficult to interpret.
Bias and Reliability
- By utilising data available on Futures Platform, AI Futurist can mitigate potential biases present in general LLMs trained on vast, diverse datasets. This ensures that the insights are less susceptible to unconscious prejudices or skewed information.
How should I prompt AI Futurist?
To get the most precise answers from AI Futurist, type in your question using complete sentences. Include the topic, context, and a specified time range. For example, "How will advancements in renewable energy impact global consumption by 2030?"
For more detailed instructions, see our prompt guide here.
Can I see the sources of AI Futurist's answers?
Yes, AI Futurist’s answer always includes a list of related phenomena from which the content is sourced. You can click these phenomena cards to open them and read further insights related to your question by our team of futurists.
In what languages can I communicate with AI Futurist?
AI Futurist's understanding of languages other than English may be limited. However, feel free to give it a try!
Where is the data sent, and is my data safe?
All data is securely stored within our standard data infrastructure and tools on the Google Cloud Platform in the EU and handled according to EU data privacy legislation, benefiting from industry-leading service quality and security measures.
We do not store users’ data or texts for any other purposes, other than providing the AI Futurist service.
As with all generative AI models, the legislative landscape is still evolving. We recommend refraining from including personal, confidential or sensitive information in your queries.