ArcGIS AI Assistants: Fundamentals |
ArcGIS AI assistants leverage the power of generative AI to streamline everyday workflows in ArcGIS. Join this technical session to learn about the various assistants available and their road map.
Presenters: Ismael Chivite and Jett Legacion
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🕑 Chapters
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00:00 Intro
00:54 Overview
02:05 Release plan for AI assistants
03:56 AI assistants included with user types
05:52 AI assistants role privilege
07:33 Demo of AI assistants
10:24 ArcGIS assistants in preview
11:13 Business Analyst assistant preview
13:29 Survey123 assistant preview
19:27 StoryMaps assistant preview
20:35 ArcGIS assistants in beta
33:56 New Item Details assistant
37:18 Question: Is there an API so I can run this through every layer?
39:14 Question about Notebooks: If I've created a script and I want to build on top of it, can I ask the LLM to build on top of it?
40:38 Question: What type of items does this type of system support?
41:38 Question: What large language models (LLM) are powering these assistants?
42:21 ArcGIS assistants in private beta
43:31 Trigger common actions in ArcGIS Pro
45:19 Question: Will the assistant in ArcGIS Pro suggest geoprocessing tools?
46:13 ArcGIS Pro assistant is extensible
47:33 Question: Do you have an assistant for unstructured data? (PDFs, images, etc.)
48:53 Summary
Questions
50:47 How do these assistants work in my completely disconnected environment?
51:16 Will you be able to bring your own model to both ArcGIS Online and Enterprise and if so will it be a list of curated models from Esri or a call to a custom model?
52:05 Cost of assistants?
53:19 When will you support ArcGIS Pro Assistant in ArcGIS Enterprise?
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