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Effective Machine Learning Needs Leadership — Not AI Hype
 Originally published in BigThink, Feb 12, 2024.  Excerpted from The...
Today’s AI Won’t Radically Transform Society, But It’s Already Reshaping Business
 Originally published in Fast Company, Jan 5, 2024. Eric...
Calculating Customer Potential with Share of Wallet
 No question about it: We, as consumers have our...
A University Curriculum Supplement to Teach a Business Framework for ML Deployment
    In 2023, as a visiting analytics professor...

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How To Make History With LLMs & Other Generative Models

 Originally published in Leigh Marie’s Newsletter, Sept 21, 2023.   Or, I’m getting tired of market maps and am ready for some hotter takes. It’s been well over a year since I published my overview of large language models, or “LLMs”. The magic of Github Copilot’s beta in early 2022 made me the most excited I’d been

GitHub’s AI-Powered Coding Chatbot Is Now Available For Individuals

 Originally published in The Verge, Sept 20, 2023. Microsoft-owned GitHub is rolling out its AI-powered coding chatbot to more people. The company launched its Copilot Chat tool in public beta for business users in July, and on Wednesday,...

Medusa: Simple Framework for Accelerating LLM Generation with Multiple Decoding Heads

 Originally published in together.ai, Sept 11, 2023. Large Language Models (LLMs) have changed the world. However, generating text with them can be slow and expensive. While methods like speculative decoding have been proposed to accelerate the generation...

Machines of Loving Understanding

 Originally published in Pete Warden’s Blog, Nov 11, 2022. I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal...

Can LLMs Learn From a Single Example?

 Originally published in Fast.AI, Sept 4, 2023. We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example....

Microsoft Says It Will Take the Heat if Copilot AI Commercial Users Get Sued

 Originally published in The Verge, Sept 7, 2023.  Microsoft is telling customers it will assume legal responsibility if they get sued for copyright infringement while using the company’s AI Copilot services. In a blog post about an...

Meta Launches Own AI Code-Writing Tool: Code Llama

 Originally posted in The Verge, Aug 24, 2023. Meta said Code Llama will make it easier to finish code. Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate...

Introducing AudioCraft: A Generative AI Tool For Audio and Music

 Originally published in Meta, Aug 2, 2023. Imagine a professional musician being able to explore new compositions without having to play a single note on an instrument. Or a small business owner adding a soundtrack to their...

Leveraging Transformers to Improve Product Retrieval Results

 Originally published in Amazon Science, Aug 3, 2023. Assessing the absolute utility of query results, rather than just their relative utility, improves learning-to-rank models. When a customer clicks on an item in a list of product-search results,...

What Self-Driving Cars Tell Us About AI Risks

 Originally published in IEEE Spectrum, July 30, 2023.  Five conclusions from an automation expert fresh off a stint with the U.S. highway safety agency. In 2016, just weeks before the Autopilot in his Tesla drove Joshua Brown to...

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