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Skillsoft: How to go from AI vision to AI reality

July 15, 2024
Don’t get AI envy — it doesn’t matter where you are on your AI journey, just as long as you’re on it.  Debasis Dutta, SVP and head of Codecademy Enterprise Solutions at Skillsoft, offered this advice at this week’s VB Transform in San Francisco.  “It is the journey which you are on,” he advised. “Just accept where you are, try to learn more, see where you can go and think about…
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Beyond the gen AI hype: Google Cloud shares key learnings

July 11, 2024
Is bigger always better when it comes to large language models (LLMs)?  “Well, the answer is quite simply yes and no,” Yasmeen Ahmad, managing director of strategy and outbound product management for data, analytics and AI at Google Cloud, said onstage at VB Transform this week.  LLMs do get better with size — but not indefinitely, she pointed out. Huge models with a large number of…
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Writer drops mind-blowing AI update

July 10, 2024
Writer, a leading enterprise AI platform, has rolled out a suite of powerful enhancements to its artificial intelligence chat applications, announced today at VB Transform. The sweeping improvements, which include advanced graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and…
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Aitomatic’s SemiKong uses AI to reshape chipmaking processes

July 10, 2024
Aitomatic announced SemiKong, the world’s first open-source AI Large Language Model (LLM) designed specifically for the semiconductor industry. Unveiled at Semicon West 2024, SemiKong aims to revolutionize semiconductor processes and fabrication technology, potentially reshaping the $500 billion semiconductor industry in the next five years, the company said. Developed in collaboration with FPT…
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AI agent benchmarks are misleading, study warns

July 8, 2024
AI agents are becoming a promising new research direction with potential applications in the real world. These agents use foundation models such as large language models (LLMs) and vision language models (VLMs) to take natural language instructions and pursue complex goals…
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Mitigating AI bias with prompt engineering — putting GPT to the test

July 8, 2024
As generative AI, and in particular large language models (LLMs), are being used in more applications, ethical issues like bias and fairness are becoming more and more important. These models, trained on massive datasets, often reproduce societal biases present in the data. Prompt engineering involves crafting specific input phrases to guide the behavior of AI models. It has been used to improve…
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