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How I Would Build an AI Assistant for Real-Time Shipment Visibility

· Source: hackernoon.com

In short

This article presents a practical architecture for building a conversational AI assistant dedicated to real-time shipment visibility in logistics. The author, a data science developer at Kuehne & Nagel, emphasizes that AI should not create facts but rather retrieve and explain data from approved enterprise sources, with strict separation between database logic and language model summarization. Key principles include clean status timelines, controlled database access, role-based security, prompt injection protection, and human-in-the-loop approval for consequential actions.

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Tags: shipment visibility, logistics, AI assistant, data integrity, security, human-in-the-loop

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