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By David Linthicum Lately, I’ve been covering the overengineering and overprovisioning of resources in support of AI, both in the cloud and not in the cloud. AI architects are putting high-powered processors, such as GPUs, on their AI platform shopping lists, not stopping to consider if they will return business value. I’ve found myself in more than a few heated disagreements with other IT architects about using these resources for AI. There seem to be two camps forming: First, the camp that believes AI will need all the processing and storage power that we can afford now. They beef up the sys...
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By Lynn Greiner As agents using artificial intelligence have wormed their way into the mainstream for everything from customer service to fixing software code, it’s increasingly important to determine which are the best for a given application, and the criteria to consider when selecting an agent besides its functionality. And that’s where benchmarking comes in. Benchmarks don’t reflect real-world applicationsHowever, a new research paper, AI Agents That Matter, points out that current agent evaluation and benchmarking processes contain a number of shortcomings that hinder their usefulness in ...
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By Matt Asay Well, that didn’t take long. After all the “this time it’s different” comments about artificial intelligence (We see you, John Chambers!), enterprises are coming to grips with reality. AI isn’t going to take your job. It’s not going to write your code. It’s not going to write all your marketing copy (not unless you’re prepared to hire back the humans to fix it). And, no, it’s nowhere near artificial general intelligence (AGI) and won’t be anytime soon. Possibly never. That’s right: We’ve entered AI’s trough of disillusionment, when we collectively stop believing the singularity is...
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By Simon Bisson One of the key components of Microsoft’s Copilot Runtime edge AI development platform for Windows is a new vector search technology, DiskANN (Disk Accelerated Nearest Neighbors). Building on a long-running Microsoft Research project, DiskANN is a way of building and managing vector indexes inside your applications. It uses a mix of in-memory and disk storage to map an in-memory quantized vector graph to a high-precision graph help on disk. What is DiskANN?Although it’s not an exact match, you can think of DiskANN as the vector index equivalent of tools like SQLite. Added to you...
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By Anirban Ghoshal AWS’ new theory on designing an automated RAG evaluation mechanism could not only ease the development of generative AI-based applications but also help enterprises reduce spending on compute infrastructure. RAG or retrieval augmented generation is one of several techniques used to address hallucinations, which are arbitrary or nonsensical responses generated by large language models (LLMs) when they grow in complexity. RAG grounds the LLM by feeding the model facts from an external knowledge source or repository to improve the response to a particular query. There are other...
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By Paul Krill Open-source vector database provider Qdrant has launched BM42, a vector-based hybrid search algorithm intended to provide more accurate and efficient retrieval for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. BM42 combines the best of traditional text-based search and vector-based search to lower the costs for RAG and AI applications, Qdrant said. Qdrant’s BM42 was announced July 2. Traditional keyword search engines, using algorithms such as BM25, have been around for more than 50 years and are not optimized for the precise retrieval needed in modern applications, accordin...
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By Gyana Swain AI research is hurtling forward, but our ability to assess its capabilities and potential risks appears to be lagging behind. To bridge this critical gap, and recognize the current limitations in third-party evaluation ecosystems, Anthropic has started an initiative to invest in the development of robust, safety-relevant benchmarks to assess advanced AI capabilities and risks. “A robust, third-party evaluation ecosystem is essential for assessing AI capabilities and risks, but the current evaluations landscape is limited,” Anthropic said in a blog post. “Developing high-quality,...
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By Ram Movva and Aviral Verma While their business and tech colleagues are busy experimenting and developing new applications, cybersecurity leaders are looking for ways to anticipate and counter new, AI-driven threats. It’s always been clear that AI impacts cybersecurity, but it’s a two-way street. Where AI is increasingly being used to predict and mitigate attacks, these applications are themselves vulnerable. The same automation, scale, and speed everyone’s excited about are also available to cybercriminals and threat actors. Although far from mainstream yet, malicious use of AI has been gr...
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By Matt Asay Your generative AI project is almost certainly going to fail. But take heart: You probably shouldn’t have been using AI to solve your business problem, anyway. This seems to be an accepted fact among the data science crowd, but that wisdom has been slow to reach enterprise executives. For example, data scientist Noah Lorang once suggested, “There is a very small subset of business problems that are best solved by machine learning; most of them just need good data and an understanding of what it means.” And yet 87% of companies surveyed by Bain & Company said they’re developing gen...
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By Doug Dineley The 2024 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards will recognize the best and most innovative products across 26 categories in software development, cloud computing, data analytics, and AI and machine learning. Nominations for the 2024 awards are now open. Products in the following categories are eligible to win: Winners will be selected by a panel of judges based on technology impact, business impact, and innovation. Nominations cost: To nominate a product, go to the 2024 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards submissions page. Winners will be announced in December. If you hav...
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