Over the last few months, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a popular technique for getting the most out of Large Language Models (LLMs) like Llama-2-70b-chat. In this post, we’ll explore the creation of an example RAG “app” which…
This might be a way bigger deal than it looks. Copilot Off Another year, another round of goofy tech updates nobody asked for announced at the annual CES conference — though Microsoft’s may take the cake. As The Verge reports,…
The ZDNET team scoured CES 2024 to find the most innovative new tech and the most exciting new products to share with our audience of professionals and tech enthusiasts. We have lots of lists summing up the best TVs, best…
It doesn’t take much imagination to describe what happens when a large corporation, over 16 long years, is allowed vindictively to prosecute 900 subpostmasters for theft, false accounting and fraud, when shortfalls at their branches were in fact due to…
State Space Models (SSMs) and Transformers have emerged as pivotal components in sequential modeling. The challenge lies in optimizing the scalability of SSMs, which have shown promising potential but are yet to surpass the dominance of Transformers. This research addresses…
Jeeves, please fetch me a glass of port. Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/ZDNET When you think of ChatGPT, what comes to mind? The latest tech fad? A get-rich-quick moneymaker for some and a lose-your-job-quick worrymaker for others? Perhaps you’ve even experienced…
“It wasn’t that easy to get good answers.” Pick and Choose Microsoft “cherry-picked” examples of its generative AI’s output after it would frequently “hallucinate” incorrect responses, Business Insider reports. The scoop comes from leaked audio of an internal presentation on…
Contemplating the correlation between scientific and technological advancements and human happiness reveals a stark reality, reminiscent of the revelation brought about by a photograph unveiling the moon’s surface, extinguishing millennia of humanity’s enchanting fantasies. In a parallel vein, today’s harsh…
Given the rise of Indic LLMs in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and Odia, it was only a matter of time that a Kannada language model came up, and it’s finally here. Meet Kannada Llama aka Kan-LLaMA, a 7 billion Llama 2…
Latent consistency models (LCMs) are based on Stable Diffusion, but they can generate images much faster, needing only 4 to 8 steps for a good image (compared to 25 to 50 steps). By running an LCM on your M1 or…
About 42% of enterprise-scale companies report having actively deployed artificial intelligence in their business and of those, 59% have accelerated their rollout or investments in the technology, according to IBM’s Global AI Adoption Index 2023. Enterprise-scale refers to companies with more…
Get up to speed on the current state of ray tracing in the NVIDIA RTX Branch of Unreal Engine and what’s coming next. Get up to speed on the current state of ray tracing in the NVIDIA RTX Branch of…