A reminder that there is a 3rd way between “vendor lock-in” and “YOLO vibe code an alternative”. That way is called FOSS: Free, Open Source Software. Free, Open Source Software that bears either an Apache, BSD, or MIT license can be used for commercial purposes without restriction. AGPL and GPL licensed software can be used…
There is no such thing as removing bias from generative AI completely. None. Zero. Anyone making that claim is lying, period, end of story. Here’s why. A lot of people – with good intentions, and with good effect – can REDUCE bias by giving today’s language models clear guidelines about what constitutes inclusive language versus…
A reminder that editing with AI makes works read more like AI. When GenAI works on text, it works in probabilities. That’s literally how it works at its heart, figuring out the most probable next item in a sequence based on the data in the sequence. It’s why it’s so good at things like predicting…
Choose which bots to block carefully. Cloudflare, a couple days ago, made significant changes to how they identify AI bots. You can now block specific classes and types of AI bots, and they’re in three categories: AI Crawler: this vacuums up your content to feed model training data AI Search: this bot searches for stuff…
Disclose your use of AI. Ruby King and I were chatting about surreptitious use of AI earlier today and one of the hottest topics right now is use of AI in fan fiction. For those who don’t know, fan fiction is where authors write works within an existing IP franchise, often without the franchise owner’s…
PSA: Agents do stuff for you. In all the buzz about AI agents, very few people are using the term for what it means. Agents in computing are not new. We’ve had agents of some kind since 1963. Every time you take your phone and connect to a new wifi point, a slew of different…
The best use of AI is to create tools so you don’t have to use AI. Unquestionably, generative AI is powerful. It lets you accomplish things outside your skill sets, at speeds greater than you’re capable of. But… it’s also hungry – for electricity, fresh water, bandwidth, and even employment. Token costs on a per…
Summary In today's episode, I explore why retrieval augmented generation and hybrid databases render fine-tuning obsolete for most enterprise AI applications. Here's what this means for you. You can cut AI costs and reduce security risks by combining vector databases, structured databases, and knowledge graphs instead of retraining models on your proprietary data. You'll also…
What’s AI best at when it comes to innovation? Context. Specifically, the context in which your idea fits. AI is generally not good at completely net new ideas because they don’t exist in context, AND because by definition something truly innovative is low probability. AI by definition generates the highest probability items in a local…
