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Enhancing large language models (LLMs) with knowledge beyond their training data is an important area of interest, especially for enterprise applications.
The best-known way to incorporate domain- and customer-specific knowledge into LLMs is to use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). However, simple RAG techniques are not sufficient in...
Nearly every survey of the podcast industry in 2024 agrees on one point: Chat podcasts are king. As video rises in popularity (33 percent of US podcast listeners prefer to consume this way), ad spending increases (estimated to top $4 billion worldwide), and listenership steadily grows at 8 percent year-over-year, it is the chat format—in its combative, enlightening, and sometimes quite unserious splendor—that...
We already knew where OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, stands on artificial intelligence vis-à-vis the human saga: It will be transformative, historic, and overwhelmingly beneficial. He has been nothing but consistent across countless interviews. For some reason, this week he felt it necessary to distill those opinions in a succinct blog post. “The Intelligence Age,” as he calls it, will be a time of...
No one doubts that artificial intelligence (AI) will change the world. But a doctrinal dispute continues to rage over the design of AI models, namely whether the software should be “closed-source” or “open-source”—in other words, whether code is proprietary, or public and open to modification by anyone.Some argue that open-source AI is a dead end or, even worse, a threat to national security....
Meta AI on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger is now getting a ChatGPT like voice mode to have real-time conversations with users in the voice of popular figures like Awkwafina, Dame Judi Dench, John Cena, Keegan Michael Key and Kristen Bell. The new feature is backed by Llama 3.2 model and was announced at the Meta Connect event on Thursday. Users across various Meta...
