How to Successfully Test and Deploy a ChatGPT-Type of Application

Enterprises are approaching Generative AI — particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT — with cautious optimism. While the potential benefits include boosting productivity, enhancing customer experience through personalization, and accelerating knowledge discovery, significant risks remain. Organizations face challenges such as unrealistic expectations, brand misalignment, hallucinated responses, data privacy concerns, and the financial burdens of enterprise LLM platforms.

Successful deployment demands a disciplined strategy:

  • Understanding LLM limitations and requiring human oversight

  • Implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to eliminate hallucinations

  • Structuring knowledge with metadata to improve system accuracy

  • Focusing on clear, testable use cases tied to measurable outcomes

  • Embedding LLM outputs into workflows while maintaining strong governance

Ultimately, winning with Generative AI hinges on strengthening your organization's knowledge foundation — treating information architecture, metadata, and content operations as critical enablers of digital transformation.

Read the full article published in Customer Think to learn how leading organizations are taking a pragmatic, ROI-focused path to safely integrate LLMs into their ecosystems.

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Meet the Author
Seth Earley

Seth Earley is the Founder & CEO of Earley Information Science and the author of the award winning book The AI-Powered Enterprise: Harness the Power of Ontologies to Make Your Business Smarter, Faster, and More Profitable. An expert with 20+ years experience in Knowledge Strategy, Data and Information Architecture, Search-based Applications and Information Findability solutions. He has worked with a diverse roster of Fortune 1000 companies helping them to achieve higher levels of operating performance.