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RAG AI

RAG AI

In a sea of AI models now flooding the market, Perplexity stands out as the underdog, making waves among tech giants like GPT and Gemini. Despite arriving late to the party, this scrappy RAG AI—short for Retrieval-Augmented Generation—has redefined how we interact...

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Sentience

Sentience

Are we on the brink of creating a sentient AI that not only thinks but feels, and knows the nature of its existence? We explore the creepy, eerie emergence of a non-Human consciousness in machines and look at a few unsettling real-life cases, like Bing’s “Sydney” and...

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Human Grief and Loss in an AI World

Human Grief and Loss in an AI World

AI is moving fast and creeping into our working lives whether we like it or not. We creatives aren’t particularly good with change, especially the radical kind that might put us out of work. We feel pain when we know we need to stop what we’re doing, learn new tricks,...

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Embodied AI

Embodied AI

The robots are here! We examine the rapid advancements in humanoid robots and their AI-powered brains. Figure 02, Atlas and Optimus as well as the exploding Chinese market. Why now? And what does all this have to do with AI? A lot; and it’s not slowing down. The...

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The Voice-Activated AI Workflow

The Voice-Activated AI Workflow

The Voice-Activated Workflow works differently; both the AI and Human leverage the strengths of their own brain-type. But this style of working is not for everyone. It might speak to younger portions of our working community and help make us old people seem more...

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Flux Capacity

Flux Capacity

Another Text-to-Image AI Player Flux AI is a relatively new visual AI platform developed by Black Forest Labs. Originally built to improve hardware and electronic workflows, it became interesting to the masses once it launched its open-source text-to-image model. The...

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Keeping Data Safe

Keeping Data Safe

Every impenetrable LLM can be jailbroken. And every service agreement that guarantees the safety of your data, once entered into a prompt window, will promise not to use it to train future models. All of this can be broken, loopholed or hacked. Once you give your...

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The AI-Powered Comeback

The AI-Powered Comeback

Things didn’t go as planned: you got caught in a re-org, a merger. Whether due to AI efficiencies or not, you suddenly find yourself out of work and primed for a re-boot. You will need to re-enter a very different job market since you last visited, now dominated by...

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Understanding Microsoft CopilotAI

Understanding Microsoft CopilotAI

Microsoft Copilot is a set of AI-driven features that combine and power existing Microsoft products (Windows 11, Bing Search, Microsoft Edge) and all your unmissable productivity apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams). The idea is to use Copilot as you search,...

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AI “Tech Bro” Culture

AI “Tech Bro” Culture

The rapid advancements in AI, towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) at all costs, have profound implications for the rest of us. We are being disrupted, rendered irrelevant with every new feature, model and rollout. Combine this with the slow pace of...

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AI and the “Left-Brain-Right-Brain”

AI and the “Left-Brain-Right-Brain”

We all intuitively identify with the “Left-Brain, Right-Brain” model; some of us were better at math while others were linguists. Today’s AI algorithms use a “Mixture of Experts” structure that allows for narrow efficiencies in intelligence types. More...

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AI-Powered Onboarding

AI-Powered Onboarding

AI can be a valuable tool to improve the onboarding process for new hires. Onboarding is critical because roughly 90% of employees decide with the first six months whether to stay or leave a company, and 20% leave within the first 45 days. AI can shape the onboarding...

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