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AI leaders have a crucial chance to address risks now and strengthen governance practices before playing catch-up to regulations, notes Kjell Carlsson, Ph.D. of Domino Data Lab. In a recent VentureBeat article, he shares his perspective on California's AI bill veto and why proactive governance is key to the future of AI innovation. Learn more about this addressing this opportunity: https://gag.gl/4WCTkP #AI #AIGovernance #AIInnovation #DataScience

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April event (and call for speakers) if virtualized conversations and how they will be utilized, and shape, the future of comms (and customer experiences) moving forward is of interest. #genAI #voip #uc #cx

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We are announcing the availability of Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus on Amazon Bedrock, the most intelligent Claude 3 model, with best-in-market performance on highly complex tasks. It can navigate open-ended prompts and sight-unseen scenarios with remarkable fluency and human-like understanding, leading the frontier of general intelligence.

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Conscious leadership will take center stage at the upcoming AWS for Energy & Utilities conference next week (April 13-14). I am grateful to Jay Shah, Niloufar Molavi, Silvestre Rincon, Jason Schulweis, and Samhita Shah for discussing this timely topic with these leaders. Reflecting on a 48-year journey towards conscious leadership, marked by imperfections, growth, and self-discovery, my most unique learning comes from being in a hard hat and steeled-toed boots in the field. Embracing flaws and gifts is a personal path that empowers one to inspire and drive change authentically. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's leadership principle, "be right, a lot,” resonates deeply. Listening, learning, and evolving are key to being right more often. Challenging preconceptions and seeking diverse perspectives shape a conscious leader. Join me at the conference to explore how ALLY Energy is developing next-gen consciousness in the workplace and driving AI innovation with Amazon Web Services (AWS). I am grateful to bring together a network that shapes experiences and fosters humility. Let's embark on this transformative journey together. #consciousleadership #AWS #leadershipdevelopment Link to the conference: https://go.aws/4cecw75 Picture: Bakersfield, California, 2023

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Cohere's newest #foundationmodel, Rerank 3, purpose built to enhance #enterprisesearch and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. "A primary challenge when building semantic search and RAG systems is determining how to best chunk your data. Our Rerank 3 model now boasts a 4k context length allowing customers to pass in larger documents for ranking. " "Rerank 3 shows up to 2x lower latency compared to Rerank 2 for shorter document lengths and up to 3x improvements at long context lengths." #AI #EnterpriseAI https://lnkd.in/edyrQhCm

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Scale at ease, Lower cost & Future proof

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From worrying about moonlit ballot boxes in 1922 to today’s AI-driven disinformation, electoral integrity challenges have certainly evolved. As technology advances, so do the complexities of maintaining trust in our democratic processes. The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is implementing robust initiatives to safeguard elections, but we information consumers must stay informed and vigilant. After all, democracy thrives on trust—and a little moonlight doesn’t hurt either. #AI #deepfake #elections2024 #electioninterefence #misinformation #disinformation https://lnkd.in/gc5WRA8X

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Human-sounding #AI can plan, help book your travel. But can you trust it? Booz Allen Hamilton SVP Will Healy discusses Recreation.gov and working with the government to adopt secure and reliable AI to improve user experience. USA TODAY

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Ultra Lean Practices slash budgets and increase productivity by orders of magnitude. They are a tangible threat to bureaucrats and empire builders, who can only see a shrinking empire. They do not consider what additional opportunities the freed-up resources could be pursuing. Check out the first book and scratch the surface of what is possible in your organization. https://lnkd.in/euQkvetx Chapter 2 details 13 tangible business benefits that will catapult your organization into the present, make you more secure and productive, slashing your risks and spend. Beware! Your EMs will not like this, and your CSP will not be happy when you remove yourself as a cash cow. Stop Coding. And Start Leaning!

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This is a good statement of the limitations of RAG with respect to generative AI accuracy.

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We are honored to be working with our customers and helping drive true business value with AI Solutions. Take a look at the latest issue of CRN that showcases how WWT is Leading the way in AI and it is getting noticed by Customers & Partners! #WWT #AI

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Small Business Grant Opportunity! EDA invites organizations that support technology- and innovation-centric, high-growth companies (including but not limited to startups) as they develop, demonstrate, and deploy the next generation of critical and emerging technologies to apply for Build to Scale funding. The Build to Scale program aims to: • build public and private capacity for entrepreneurs and innovators to invent, improve, and bring to market new products and services in critical, emerging, and transformative sectors and industries; • accelerate the growth of regional economies that are focused on industries of the future; • empower communities to provide proof-of-concept and commercialization assistance to technology innovators and entrepreneurs; and • equitably and inclusively increase access to capital for technology-enabled entrepreneurs. Awards made under Build to Scale may only fund operational and programmatic costs related to developing and supporting regional innovation initiatives. Award funds may not be passed or transferred directly to beneficiaries (i.e., participant startup companies and individuals) served by the program being funded by award funds, but recipients may use award funds to facilitate access to equipment, facilities, expertise, or other resources critical to commercializing technologies via an objective, unbiased process. https://lnkd.in/eW32n8Sq

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Hi, I just wrote the following blog on the new vector capability in MariaDB, and where things are headed for AI and Vector Databases - https://lnkd.in/gaZpwtwz

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Check out Michael Coté's interview.

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A really practical guide to LLMs is now available! Learn what to do, what to avoid, from prompting to RAG, to fine-tuning, and evaluation. Definitively worth reading. https://lnkd.in/dCC6uKjs

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AI leaders have a crucial chance to address risks now and strengthen governance practices before playing catch-up to regulations, notes Kjell Carlsson, Ph.D. of Domino Data Lab. In a recent VentureBeat article, he shares his perspective on California's AI bill veto and why proactive governance is key to the future of AI innovation. Learn more about this addressing this opportunity: https://gag.gl/4WCTkP #AI #AIGovernance #AIInnovation #DataScience

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