5 Essential Free Tools for Getting Started with LLMs

Image created by Author using Midjourney Large language models (LLMs) have become extremely prominent and useful for all sorts of tasks, but new users may find the large number of LLM tools and utilities intimidating. This article focuses on 5 of the available and widely-useful such tools, all of which are no-cost and created to …

Scarlett Johansson’s Voice and the Future of AI: An Unintended Standard?

This group of women was generated by Midjourney … it’s happening! Recently, Scarlett Johansson’s disapproval of an AI-generated voice similar to hers from the movie “Her” led to the removal of the “Sky” voice from ChatGPT. This incident raises intriguing questions about the future use of her voice in AI technology. The Unintended Consequence Johansson’s …

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Escaping the Cargo Cult

Escaping the Cargo Cult: Exchanging blind faith for real-world outcomes In his February 2024 blog post, Technology is the Problem, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar presents a compelling argument: the stagnation in growth and progress over recent decades is largely attributable to a misalignment at every stage of the B2B SaaS value chain. Engineering, procurement, implementation, …

How AI-powered recruiting helps Spain’s leading soccer team score

Phrases like “striking the post” and “direct free kick outside the 18” may seem foreign if you’re not a fan of football (for Americans, see: soccer). But for a football scout, it’s the daily lexicon of the job, representing crucial language that helps assess a player’s value to a team. And now, it’s also the …

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Create a multimodal assistant with advanced RAG and Amazon Bedrock

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) models have emerged as a promising approach to enhance the capabilities of language models by incorporating external knowledge from large text corpora. However, despite their impressive performance in various natural language processing tasks, RAG models still face several limitations that need to be addressed. Naive RAG models face limitations such as …

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How partners can augment solution development with gen AI

Meeting client timelines and quality standards is a long-standing challenge for Google Cloud Partners, especially when navigating large legacy codebases, unfamiliar languages, and multiple tools.  Partner projects frequently involve code integration across multiple languages — including legacy ones — posing challenges for manual analysis and limiting the effectiveness of automation tools. Further, ensuring reliable error …

Two types of LLMs found able to equal or outperform humans on theory of mind tests

An international team of psychologists and neurobiologists has found via experimentation that two types of LLMs are able to equal or outperform humans on theory of mind tests. In their study reported in the journal Nature Human Behavior, the group administered theory of mind tests to volunteers and compared the average results with those from …