LLM Articles
Generality in Generative AI is an Illusion
Large language models are often described as general-purpose problem solvers. That’s fair; given a prompt, they can write SQL queries, summarize academic papers, troubleshoot YAML files, produce a mediocre chili recipe, and draft HR emails, all in the same breath. That breadth of capability is a big driver of the current enthusiasm. Here’s the thing […]
Intentional AI: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere these days: headlines, investor decks, your last team meeting, and dinner conversations. Just because AI is hot doesn’t mean it’s well understood. Too often, people reach for AI like it’s duct tape: a fix-all solution for any digital dilemma. But like duct tape, AI has its limits. Some problems need glue, […]
Demystifying Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Business Leaders
Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, AI has become the coolest (or at least, most used) acronym of the day. As a business leader, one might wonder what the terms thrown around mean and how to separate truth from hype. This post explains machine learning and AI terminology in simple language, to be able to […]
Curious About How to Get Started with LLM App Dev? Let’s Go!
LLM app dev sounds scarier than it is. Luckily, open source frameworks exist with excellent guides, great documentation, and active communities. Find below a series of toys, tasks, and videos that will take you from “aware that LLMs exist” to “building an LLM-based app”. Wait, what are LLMs? Some of this article can be practiced […]
Helpful Tools to Make Your First Voice Clone Dataset Easy to Build
Helpful Tools to Make Your First Voice Clone Dataset Easy to Build Voice clones are really, really good now. And there are a bunch of companies that sell them. Do yourself a favor and spend five minutes playing with a voice clone from any of these services. ElevenLabs is not listed in that article but […]
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 […]
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 […]