我们造了安然公司的大脑
我们给了安然公司的45,047封电子邮件，它写了214页关于安然公司、监管者和银行的报导。 每一个事实都引用了它来自的电子邮件。 当邮件显示一个事实不再真实时，该页在该日期过期。 没有人编辑过一页或事实。
邮箱里的邮件
实体页面
协作
竞争对手
那么关系：
查看了电子邮件
- 找到类型
- 找到实体
- 构建页面
- 验证
214页
49 401个事实，每个都引用其电子邮件
93%的抽样事实得到了电子邮件的充分支持
500个抽样的事实中，有0个是错的
最后两个来自第二个AI的搁置审计；看看我们是如何检查的。
这些是本书中讨论最多的组织。 每页都有滑动器。 拖动它和显示的页面在那个日期已知的，事实只是真实的一段时间结束在你面前。
这些页面上的事实为句子，每个句子都有日期和来源，而不是人头统计或收入等字段。 球场属于一个CRM或另一个记录系统，这样的大脑坐在它旁边，持有什么变化太频繁或不适合在一个领域。 我们描述了公司知识的三种类型，以及每个人生活的地方，在缺少的公司知识中间。
输油管提出57种窄型，一人保留其中54种。 几乎所有的组织，所以我们把这些列表分成一个穿梭机类，并保留管道本身的类型作为每个实体的标签。
公司，监管机构，律师事务所，银行，报纸。 公司要处理什么？
发现929个实体
安然自己的业务单位，办公桌，平台，系统和代号项目。
* 发现551个实体
该管道还发现了78个产品和平台，76个设施和市场点，49个活动，没有页面。 选择哪类实体值得一页，是一个人在配置公司大脑时所做的设定，我们在构建任何网页之前就做出了这一选择。 每个公司的邮件名不需要追踪的东西，分类有点乱：餐厅来自迎合事件，机场来自旅行，电影顺便提到。 安然寄信无异。 设施包括贸易中心、安然油田、一个停车场和两辆油轮。 活动将商业会议与慈善自行车赛和Cirque du Soleil混合。 这些产品将软件与交易所、章程和贸易协会混为一谈。
正确的选择取决于公司。 活动公司应有其活动的网页，其设施应有物业经理，其产品应有硬件制造者。 对于安然，我们给了至少25条信息中命名的组织网页，以及安然本身最受讨论的五个部分：三个业务单位，一个交易平台和一个交易系统。 一个真正的公司大脑不会通过计数过滤。 你今天签的客户可能发了一两封邮件你仍然想要它的页面截断值代表一个人对脑中值得保存的东西的判断。
我们是这个+那个。 我们制作这些网页时采用了我们所建造的东西的原型。
我们想要一个尸体任何人都可以检查我们的工作。 安然的邮件是公开的，因为联邦能源监管委员会(FERC)发布它在调查期间，卡内基·梅隆自2003年起一直维护。 是一个大型的，自由的，被广泛使用的实体公司内部通信。 公司的历史也得到了解决，因此一页声称，例如，Dynegy同意在2001年11月收购安然公司，可以对照记录进行核对，而不是通过信任获得。
邮件显示故事片断。 将整段内容改为"房间里最聪明的家伙"(The Smart Guys in the Room)，由贝萨尼·麦克莱恩和彼得·埃尔金德编剧，他以"财富"的资深作家身份报道了安然的兴衰。
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We built Enron a company brain
We gave an AI 45,047 of Enron's emails, and it wrote 214 pages about the companies, regulators and banks Enron dealt with. Every fact cites the email it came from. When the mail shows a fact stopped being true, the page expires it on that date. No one edited a page or a fact.
An email in the corpus
Entity page
Dynegy
CompetitorTrading counterparty
Relationship then:
✓ Checked against the email
- Find the types
- Find the entities
- Build the page
- Verify
214pages
49,401facts, each citing its email
93%of sampled facts fully supported by their email
0of 500 sampled facts wrong at their core
The last two come from a held-out audit by a second AI; see how we checked it.
These are the most-discussed organizations in the corpus. Each page has a slider. Drag it and the page shows what was known on that date, with facts that were only true for a while expiring in front of you.
Facts on these pages are sentences, each with a date and a source, rather than fields like headcount or revenue. Fields belong in a CRM or another system of record, and a brain like this one sits beside it, holding what changes too often or doesn't fit in a field. We describe the three kinds of company knowledge, and where each one lives, in The missing middle of company knowledge.
The pipeline proposed 57 narrow types and a person kept 54 of them. Almost all were kinds of organization, so we group these lists by a coarser class and keep the pipeline's own type as a tag on each entity.
Companies, regulators, law firms, banks, newspapers. What the company deals with.
209 pages · 929 entities found
Enron's own business units, desks, platforms, systems and codenamed projects.
5 pages · 551 entities found
The pipeline also found 78 products and platforms, 76 facilities and market points, and 49 events, listed without pages. Choosing which kinds of entity deserve a page is the setup a person does when configuring a company brain, and we made that choice before building any page. Every company's mail names things it doesn't need to track, in categories that are a bit of a mess: restaurants from catered events, airports from travel, movies mentioned in passing. Enron's mail is no different. The facilities include trading hubs, Enron Field, a parking garage and two tankers. The events mix business conferences with charity bike rides and Cirque du Soleil. The products mix software with an exchange, a statute and trade associations.
The right choice depends on the company. An event company should have pages for its events, a property manager for its facilities, and a hardware maker for its products. For Enron we gave pages to organizations named in at least 25 messages, and to the five most-discussed parts of Enron itself: three business units, a trading platform and a trading system. A real company brain wouldn't filter by count. A customer you signed today might have sent one or two emails, and you'd still want its page. The cutoff stands in for the judgment a person makes about what's worth keeping in the brain.
We're this+that. We made these pages with a prototype of something we're building.
We wanted a corpus anyone can check our work against. Enron's mail is public because the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released it during its investigation, and Carnegie Mellon has maintained it since 2003. It's a large, free and widely used body of a real company's internal correspondence. The company's history is also settled, so a page claiming, for example, that Dynegy agreed to acquire Enron in November 2001 can be checked against the record rather than taken on trust.
The mail shows the story in pieces. For the whole of it, read The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, who covered Enron's rise and fall as senior writers at Fortune.
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