What is Ask Lightcast
Ask is Lightcast’s prototype generative AI made to help you get the most out of all of the data and insight available within our Analyst products. Ask Lightcast has been trained to understand both Lightcast’s data and the reports available to you as a user, so that it can answer your labor market questions, and also point you to the right places in Analyst to find out more.
How Ask Lightcast works
Ask Lightcast uses generative AI to answer questions you ask, in the words you choose. When you ask a specific question about the labor market, Ask Lightcast will seek to give you a specific answer, and point you to where in Analyst you can find out more.
Ask Lightcast uses Retrieval Augmented Generation, meaning Ask's answers are based on Lightcast's comprehensive and curated data sets, rather than simply data found on the web.
Accessing Ask Lightcast
Ask Lightcast is available to beta customers with the Talent Analyst application, in the United States and Global geographies.
For access, contact your Account Manager.
What Ask Lightcast's beta version can do
For this initial version, we have trained Ask to answer questions about specific problems we know many customers want to solve using Lightcast:
Understanding global labor market demand
Creating job posting text
Identifying career pathways
Finding the right report in Analyst
In beta, Lightcast can’t predict how every possible question will be translated into a data query, and so for now it’s best to see results as “the AI model’s best attempt to answer your question with Lightcast data” rather than a quality-assured view from Lightcast.
Beta Status—we want your feedback
Ask Lightcast is a new application of new technology, and we are sharing it with customers so that we can test it and find out how we can improve it. For every question you ask, we ask you to give it thumbs up or thumbs down based on how well Ask Lightcast has supplied an answer to your question—whether it understood the question, whether the data was accurate, or whether it sent you to the right place in Analyst.
Ask Lightcast is being made available for your benefit, and for Lightcast to learn and improve it, on a Beta status basis. For that reason, Ask will change in the future, and could even disappear in its current form, as we learn about how best to make use of its capabilities.
Data Privacy—assuring you about your questions
Just as we do with Analyst, we draw on the questions you send to Ask to help us improve the product and learn how we can develop it into new areas. Everything you share with Ask will be treated in accordance with Lightcast’s Privacy Policy.