Tag: TechInnovation

Your GenAI, Your Data: How Local Models Put You Back in Control

When discussing GenAI one concern that consistently comes up is a worry around using public models and what happens to my data – there are genuine concerns about data privacy and security when using public AI models.  Luckily there are solutions that address these concerns that have been around for quite a while – Ollama , and Open WebUI – tools that empower organisations to run AI models on their own infrastructure.

The Blueprint for GenAI Success: Why GenAI Architecture Frameworks and Design Patterns Matter

While mulling over what seemed to be a lack of GenAI frameworks and design patterns last week, this post from Debmalya Biswas dropped into my feed on A Comprehensive Guide to Agentic AI. This post and the accompanying slides are more than the title suggests – they are a great start on a set design patterns and reference architectures – something that we seem to be sorely missing.

There is value in that unstructured data.

For quite some time I have been concerned about the unrealised value in unstructured data – the myriad of Word documents and PDF’s that contain everything from organisational policies to processes and reports (we aren’t talking about video, images and audio in this article). This increasing amount of unstructured data and the ability to absorb it is one of the things that increases the time that new hires take to become effective or means that a policy (if not encapsulated within a system) does not get adhered to.

Elevating Software Development with AI Companions: My Game-Changing Experience with Codeium

I needed a small utility to search using the Google custom search API and then submit the results to ChatGPT’s API for summarising; I leveraged the power of the AI coding companion, Codeium for the first time (in VSCode and Python). This combination truly improved my development experience, making it a lot more efficient and enjoyable, auto-completing code, generating explanations and providing in code documentation. Digging a little deeper …

Deploying AI: What Somebody Seems to be Putting Together

After posting last weeks article (Deploying AI: What nobody seems to be putting together) where I suggested that we have fragmentation in approaches to AI deployment I saw a number of things come together. EY launched EY.ai (actually, back in Sept 2023), then a great post from Chris Howard at Gartner (Top of Mind – “Are 100% Accurate AI Language Models Even Useful?”) where Chris mentions ‘…as we hit the trough of disillusionment with generative AI…”.