A.I. Chatting WITH Your Filenames - A ChatGPT Game Changer!

We perfected a process that has significantly improved the way we're able to Chat in our private ChatGPT instances that involves including the filename in our chat questions and responses!

The "Normal" ChatGPT Experience without Filenames

When you use a public instance of ChatGPT, you ask questions, get answers, but you don't get any particular citation where it found the information. The whole idea of ChatGPT was to make a vast library of public information available so you get answers back to your questions in fully formed sentences, paragraphs, etc.

With a private instance of ChatGPT that we've been building for organizations in the Microsoft Azure cloud, you actually do get a citation/reference ("filename") that you can click and see a portion of the content (file) that the private ChatGPT found the answer from.

However as much as I can click on the reference "Convergent Computing Employee Handbook.pdf" and see the citation to the right, if I tried to ask our private ChatGPT environment anything about that PDF file, it wouldn't know what I'm talking about. I would get an error that ChatGPT doesn't understand nor have access to the PDF file. By default, the system imported the body/text of the file, but for the most part then disregarded the filename.

Being Able to Reference Filenames in Chats

What our A.I. Think Tank resolved was the ability to include the filenames of all ingested files into the chat search and response process. NOW when we ask it "tell me more about Convergent Computing Employee Handbook.PDF", it CAN respond... Now our private Azure-based ChatGPT environments can recognize the filenames of the DOCX, PDF, TXT, PPT, HTML, etc that we've uploaded to the system!

Why are Filenames in Chat Significant

The significance, and why it is SUCH an amazing breakthrough of having filenames chattable, is it allows you to ask questions about "a file", explore more about uploaded content, directly ask the GenAI system to compare one doc to another, all the things in research and information digging that you want more information on!

Up until now, as much as I would know there was an "Employee Handbook" file that is the source of questions I ask, and I could see snippets of the handbook by clicking on the citation, it was poking in the dark to gather up "everything" about that document.

Being able to directly call out the names of files, I can ask my ChatGPT environment to summarize the entire document. Or I can ask my ChatGPT to compare one documents to another like I've done below:

You can even specifically ask to see the bibliography for a document, so if you're looking to expand your research on content directly related to a unique document, you can call out the name of that document and ask for content directly in that file:

So as much as ChatGPT is great at grabbing content from ALL information in its repository, there are many times when you find what you want, you want to go deeper into THAT file and content and get a lot more targeted on specific file content!

The Trick to Enabling Chat/Search Including Filename

By default the private instances of Microsoft Azure ChatGPT includes the content as searchable, but it excluded the filename as searchable.

By making a modification to the index to INCLUDE the filename as being searchable, now we can search (and chat) with the body/content of uploaded materials as well as be able to search (and chat) including the filename!

Wrap-up: Getting the Most Out of Broad Search as well as Specific Search!

With this breakthrough we're now getting the BEST out of ChatGPT by having it sift through a LOT of information to come up with a quick response, but as it cites where it found the content, we can now specifically call out that source document and go DEEP into our subsequent rounds of queries!