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Not everything needs an LLM: A framework for evaluating when AI makes sense

Question: What product should use machine learning (ML)? Project manager answer: Yes. Jokes aside, the advent of generative AI has upended our understanding of what use cases lend themselves best to ML. Historically, we have always leveraged ML for repeatable, predictive patterns in customer experiences, but now, it’s possible to leverage a form of ML even without an entire training…
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The ‘era of experience’ will unleash self-learning AI agents across the web—here’s how to prepare

David Silver and Richard Sutton, two renowned AI scientists, argue in a new paper that artificial intelligence is about to enter a new phase, the “Era of Experience.” This is where AI systems rely increasingly less on human-provided data and improve themselves by gathering data from and interacting with the world. While the paper is conceptual and forward-looking, it has direct implications…
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Meta unleashes Llama API running 18x faster than OpenAI: Cerebras partnership delivers 2,600 tokens per second

Meta announced today a partnership with Cerebras Systems to power its new Llama API, offering developers access to inference speeds up to 18 times faster than traditional GPU-based solutions. The announcement, made at Meta’s inaugural LlamaCon developer conference in Menlo Park, positions the company to compete directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the rapidly growing AI inference…
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Ex-OpenAI CEO and power users sound alarm over AI sycophancy and flattery of users

An AI assistant that unequivocally agrees with everything you say and supports you — even your most outlandish and obviously false, misguided or straight-up bad ideas — sounds like something out of a cautionary sci-fi short story from Philip K. Dick. But it appears to be the reality for a number of users of OpenAI’s hit chatbot ChatGPT, specifically for interactions with the underlying…
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