Aaron Alexander

Engagement Manager

Working across industries, Aaron partners with SEP clients and teams to guide projects forward with clarity, collaboration, and practical focus.

Aaron Alexander

Posts by Aaron

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Artificial Intelligence | 9 min read

How Autonomous AI Agents Leverage Text Completion Capabilities

This is the fourth post in a series that looks at how autonomous agents use generative AI models. Introduction The previous post showed how programmatic interactions with Open AI’s language models function. In this post, we’ll look at how two different autonomous agents (BabyAGI and Auto-GPT) leverage these capabilities. Agents like these provide a way […]

Artificial Intelligence | 8 min read

Chatting With A LLM – Using the Open AI APIs

This is the third post in a series that looks at how autonomous agents use generative AI models. Introduction The previous post discussed how the text completion and chat completion capabilities work generally. It also showed some examples of prompts and responses. In this post, we’ll see how to use Open AI’s API to perform […]

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Artificial Intelligence | 9 min read

Probabilistic Chatting – How Text Completions and Chat Completions Work Behind the Scenes

This is the second post in a series that looks at how autonomous agents use generative AI models. Introduction The previous post introduced transformers and how they impacted recent natural language processing (NLP) developments. In this post, we’ll take a look at how this sort of transformer model works with completion and chat completion interactions. […]

Artificial Intelligence | 4 min read

The Rise of Transformers-An Introduction to AI Transformers and LLMs

This is the first post in a series that looks at how autonomous agents use generative AI models. Introduction The past few years have included rapid advancements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). These advancements are particularly demonstrable in the natural language processing (NLP) domain. Newer transformer based models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in […]

Culture | 6 min read

Suddenly Remote?

I shared some thoughts with my team last week as we were thinking through what all-remote would look like for us. Now that we are in an all-remote stance (as are an increasing number of companies), those thoughts are more broadly applicable. The tips below are things that have helped me work effectively in the […]

Culture | 5 min read

4 Ways We Attract Great Interns

Finding top-notch people (engineers, designers, etc.) to work at SEP is a key thing we focus on each year. As part of finding and attracting great interns, it’s important to have a clear idea of what your company has to offer. Students will interact with lots of companies, often in quick succession. Knowing what you […]