Seeq AI Assistant

The Seeq AI Assistant is available for SaaS customers on R64 and later. If you don’t see it already, file a support request to have it enabled.

In the ever-evolving landscape of industrial enterprise software, incorporating new and improved ways of solving problems is paramount to supporting organizations on their digital transformation journeys. At Seeq, we believe that quickly harnessing new technologies is a key factor in enabling our users to improve sustainability, reliability, and productivity in industrial processes. We’ve been growing with this technology to offer an AI Assistant that can help wherever a user needs it.

See more details on where you can interact with the Seeq AI Assistant on the following pages:

AI Assistant in Seeq Formula

AI Assistant in Seeq Data Lab

AI Assistant Data Privacy

AI Assistant Cheat Sheet

General Seeq AI Assistant

This versatile & comprehensive AI Assistant that is accessible from anywhere in Seeq.

This Assistant can up-skill & empower any and all users. When the AI Assistant first opens, it explains how it can help you and provides three options to get started without asking a question. These options are relative to where you are in Seeq - it will provide ideas relevant to performing an analysis in Workbench and will provide help with how to make reports in Organizer.

Wondering how you can benefit from working with the AI Assistant?

Use-Case Inspiration

Get inspired about what use-cases to pursue within Seeq with questions like How can Seeq help with batch analytics for my pharmaceutical process?

Analysis Assistance

Ask the Assistant questions regarding your current analysis, and how to implement ideas in Seeq.

How to use Seeq

Ask it how to best use various aspects of Seeq. We still highly recommend Seeq training, but the AI Assistant is there in a pinch any time you have a question.

Have you forgotten when you want to use a particular tool? All Seeq Tools have a sparkle icon in the upper right corner. Clicking that icon will launch the AI Assistant providing more information about the tool that is open.

Data Connections

Ask for help with how to configure different data sources.

Do something for you

Select the Actions Agent from the dropdown in the chat box and give the AI Assistant a task to carry out on your behalf. The AI Assistant can help you get more done by creating items on your behalf and reorganizing your display. Try prompts like

Find when temperature is less than 60.
Move flow to lane 5.
Smooth all my signals.
Document my analysis.

Ask the Actions Agent what it can help you with since its capabilities will grow faster than this page can be updated.

Agents for specialized responses

The AI Assistant has four agents that can be selected from dropdown menus in the AI Assistant panel. Open a new conversation and switch agents see scrolling tips for each agent.

The General Agent is great for analytics and how-to help throughout Seeq. Ask this agent any question you would ask your favorite Seeq Analytics Engineer without waiting for them to send you a response.
The Formula Agent is an expert in Seeq Formula but can be accessed outside the Formula Tool if that is where you happen to be.
The Data Lab Agent knows all about SPy and Python, but you don’t have to be in Data Lab to access it.
The Actions Agent can take actions on your behalf, like creating new items (Find when my temperature is greater than 90 or Smooth all my signals), manipulating the display (move optimizer to lane 5), documenting your analysis in the Journal, and much more! It will update your Journal with worksteps before and after each action so you can get back to an earlier spot easily if you desire. Ask it what it is capable of when you are chatting with it to get the latest information.

History

The AI Assistant will remember your recent conversations. Start new conversations with the New Chat button and access previous conversations with the history icon in the upper left portion of the AI Assistant panel.

There is a filter button to help you filter your previous conversations based on words in the title which is the original question of the conversation.

Using the three dot menu next to each previous conversation, you can rename, mark as a favorite, share, or delete that conversation.

By default, only you have access to this history of conversations, and you can access and resume them in this panel anywhere, regardless of the location from which they were started. You can choose to share a conversation with a colleague if the AI Assistant has been particularly helpful. A share icon appears for conversations you have shared or conversations that have been shared with you.

When you open a previous conversation, you will see a tag indicating the part of Seeq where the original conversation took place. This may be a specific workbook, document, or the Home Screen.

Resources

The AI Assistant will provide links to resources like the Seeq Knowledge Base inline with some responses when appropriate. In addition to any inline links, each response from the AI Assistant has an info icon at the end of the response. Clicking on this info icon will provide links to the resources that were used by the Assistant to provide the response.

Flexibility to meet your needs

There is a settings icon next to the history icon. Use this to update the text size displayed in the AI Assistant panel or control the verbosity of AI Assistant responses by selecting “Minimal” or “Moderate”. Moderate is the default.

Use the button in the upper right to pop out and move the Assistant anywhere in the browser if you don’t want it on the right side of the screen. You can also make the Assistant full screen if appropriate with the double sided arrow button.

Voice to Text

If you prefer talking to the Assistant over typing, use the microphone icon in the chat area and speak your question or command into a microphone connected to your computer.

There is also a speaker icon at the bottom of each response if you prefer to have responses read aloud. This speaker icon is to the right of the feedback emojis of the last response or at the bottom of any previous response..

Bring your own LLM Provider

Seeq collaborates with global Enterprise LLM Providers to power its AI Assistant for SaaS customers. When users interact with the AI Assistant, Seeq optimizes performance by distributing activity among these providers. If you have specific data processing or storage concerns, you can integrate your own LLM Provider with Seeq's AI Assistant. This guarantees that all prompts and responses comply with your requirements.

OpenAI and Microsoft Azure OpenAI Studio are supported as alternative LLM Providers. If your organization already has accounts with these providers, the Seeq Support Team can guide you on how to configure them in your environment. This setup will ensure that all interactions with the Seeq AI Assistant in your instance are directed to your chosen provider.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why don't I see the AI Assistant?

Each customer needs to request to have this capability added to your environment. You can make that request with Support or any interactions you may have with the Seeq Team. After requested, it will become available to all users.

The AI Assistant is only available to SaaS customers, and the capabilities of the AI Assistant are release dependent.

How will my data be used?

Questions asked of the AI Assistant are used only to generate and provide responses from AI models. Data submitted are not used for model training. Usage data will be used according to Seeq’s Privacy Policy, and you can read more on the AI Assistant Data Privacy page. For questions regarding the geographic locations in which these models are hosted, ask Seeq Support for more detail.

Are there prompt structuring requirements?

Assistants enabled with generative AI do best when provided complete questions or sentences. Many people have wired their brains for minimal keyword searches and will need to adjust to provide a complete and comprehensive request. For example, “identify the 3 hour period before my capsules” will likely yield better results than “3hr before”.

This AI Assistant already has the context of Seeq and various industrial analytics approaches, so further prompt structure requirements are minimal. Subsequent questions can build on the previously asked question for fine tuning of results or clarification.

How are hallucinations and data poisoning managed?

Seeq has both automated and manual quality assurance of all aspects of our generative AI products that check for product safety, quality and latency. We take all aspects of LLM models internals, prompt inputs and response abnormalities seriously and have many systems to mitigate diversions.

It is possible for this technology to provide incorrect answers including Seeq Formula functions that may not exist. You can provide feedback in Seeq for the AI Assistant in Seeq Data Lab and will be able to provide feedback in the General Assistant in future versions. Let us know if you encounter false information from the Assistant.

Is there a limit on the use of the AI Assistant?

The Seeq AI Assistant may be subject to a monthly cap on the number of requests that can be made while we grow overall capacity in various global regions. We’ll be increasing this limit for all customers over time, but in case you hit your limit, it will reset the following month. Administrators will get more insight on usage of the AI Assistant in future versions.

During periods of high utilization, there may be interruptions in responses from the AI Assistant.

What Languages is the AI Assistant available in?

The AI Assistant will respond in the same language used to ask the question. Formulas created by the AI Assistant will always appear in English because Formula Functions are not supported in other languages.

Where is data processed?

Seeq integrates with a variety of LLM providers hosted around the world. If you have concerns or limitations on where your data can be processed or stored, consider bringing your own LLM provider.

My company has made its own progress with GenAI and we can ask it questions about all our workorders and standard operating procedures. How can we invoke this model in Seeq?

One way to do this would be to invoke your GenAI models though a Seeq Data Lab Function, which you can expose to users through Add-on Tools in Workbench or the Home Screen. Read more here.