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Your docs are your infrastructure

November 26, 2024 Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti, who spent many years as a technical writer for Splunk and New Relic, joins Ben and Ryan for a conversation about the evolving role of documentation in software development. They explore how documentation can (and should) be integrated with code, the importance of quality control, and the hurdles to maintaining […]

Marc Benioff thinks we’ve reached the ‘upper limits’ of LLMs — the future, he says, is AI agents

Tech titan Marc Benioff says we’re near the “upper limits” of LLM use in AI advancement. In a podcast, the Salesforce CEO said the future of AI lies in agents that work autonomously. “‘Terminator’? Maybe we’ll be there one day,” Benioff said, referencing the 1984 film about a cyborg assassin. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, in […]

iOS 19 could debut a more conversational LLM Siri

A more talkative Siri might arrive as part of iOS 19 next year. Photo: Cult of Mac/Nadezhda Moryak Apple plans to further improve Siri with iOS 19 in 2025 by using advanced next-generation large language models (LLMs). Thanks to the new LLMs powering Siri, the voice assistant should become much more conversational. Siri could get […]

An Animated Walkthrough Of How Large Language Models Work

If you wonder how Large Language Models (LLMs) work and aren’t afraid of getting a bit technical, don’t miss [Brendan Bycroft]’s LLM Visualization. It is an interactively-animated step-by-step walk-through of a GPT large language model complete with animated and interactive 3D block diagram of everything going on under the hood. Check it out! nano-gpt has […]

OpenAI faces diminishing returns with latest AI model

OpenAI is facing diminishing returns with its latest AI model while navigating the pressures of recent investments. According to The Information, OpenAI’s next AI model – codenamed Orion – is delivering smaller performance gains compared to its predecessors. In employee testing, Orion reportedly achieved the performance level of GPT-4 after completing just 20% of its […]

A brief summary of language model finetuning

Fine-tuning techniques: The term “fine tuning” refers to further training a pretrained model. In the case of LLMs, this means that we take a pretrained foundation model and train it some more. But, there are so many different ways that this training can be done, which makes the concept of fine tuning incredibly vague. This […]