Making AI Practical and Practicable
It’s only been a year, and man, has this take aged in the interim. It’s hard to imagine today from a year ago, when many of the businesses I interacted with were terrified of what generative AI would mean for their data security postures and IP. Now that conversation is…
We’ve been here before. Several times. This is not to say today’s breakthroughs aren’t impressive, they are, but calm the hell down. This scale of breakthrough isn’t unprecedented, even in my lifetime.
Lately, we’ve been fielding a lot of interest in custom Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. And honestly, it’s easy to see why. RAG systems are incredibly flexible tools for injecting up-to-date, domain-specific knowledge into AI responses for answering questions, generating content, analyzing internal data, or any other task that’s primarily completed by producing an artifact.
A short story on the dangers of misapplying generative AI technology, born of a prompt for a writing competition and more than a few at-bats with folks wanting to treat LLMs as a panacea.
With my sincerest thanks to the folks at StirTrek. It’s a lovely show, a great crowd, and they do the community (and me) a huge service in making these talks publicly available. Abstract Software touches every aspect of our lives, and no where is that clearer than in the automotive…
With my sincerest thanks to the folks that put on StirTrek. It’s a lovely show, and they do a yeoman’s work capturing everyone’s talk and putting the content out there. Abstract AI has captured the attention of the world—for better or worse. Hype, noise, and fear are dominating the headlines,…
Hey all, I’m lucky enough to be speaking at KCDC this year. I’ve got a workshop on data structures and a talk about applied AI. Hope to see you there!
This is a short story I wrote for a competition whose theme was queer joy. It’s a fictionalized account of how we settled on my parental title in our little family.
I think that defiance is something worth being proud of, as much for it’s own sake as for the hope that it encourages someone else to be themselves too.
This post originally appeared on SEP’s Blog 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.…
