Over the past month ro so we have seen a growing number of articles about AI market over hype and in particular, Microsoft which has pulled back from some plans to build new data centres and letters of intent relating to purchase of energy. The general feeling would appear to be that AI's energy consumption is already too high and delivering the promises will exasperate that further.
The EU AI Act is the world’s first comprehensive law governing AI, setting a precedent for how organizations across industries must handle AI responsibly. Among its many provisions, a crucial but often overlooked requirement is AI literacy—a mandate that ensures employees working with AI have the necessary skills and understanding to assess AI risks and opportunities effectively.
In today's fast-paced business landscape, AI adoption is emerging as a transformative strategy that mirrors the revolutionary approaches of the past. Much like the 1990s Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) and the 2000s Kanban and Lean methodologies, integrating AI into your operations is about optimizing processes, enhancing decision-making and securing a competitive edge. However, the journey to successful AI implementation is neither instantaneous nor magical.
The AI industry found itself at another potential inflection point with Elon Musk's expressed interest in acquiring OpenAI, the company he co-founded in 2015 before departing in 2018. This development is particularly noteworthy given the complex history between Musk and OpenAI, as well as the current state of the AI industry.
DeepSeek has made waves by delivering high-performing AI models with significantly lower resource requirements than industry giants like OpenAI and Anthropic. Here's how they've done it:
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, AI isn't just a tool for generating content - it can also help you fine-tune your prompts themselves for better results. By using AI to analyze and refine your queries, you will recieve clearer, more creative and targeted responses. If you're counting tokens, it will also save on usage costs.
So try asking your AI system of choice:
"Please optimise the following prompt and add placeholders for any additional information I might need to provide:
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Please write me a process to deploy nginx as a docker image to act as a reverse proxy for a web server
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Different AI systems will definitely yield varying results, so try posting this on a few. This helps in so many ways to organise your thoughts and information gathering, its a real time saver, especially when you run the resultant prompt!
We've almost stopped using search engines in favour of well written prompts. Integrating AI into your prompt-writing process is a smart way to save even more time fault finding and prompt refining...
Happy optimizing!
ps: Please pardon my manners when writing prompts, you really don't need to do that, but do read our other blog posts about prompt manners!
Since I first started using ChatGPT, my prompts have always been courteous "Please can you..." and "Thank you" at the end of the conversation. A friend commented the other day that this makes no difference whatsoever to the LLM and is really just wearing out my keyboard prematurely.
I take a different view... Just like humans don't take kindly to having orders barked at them, I think AI will start reacting differently to less polite prompts. I expect that as LLMs become increasingly sophisticated they will be able to pick up a positive or negative stance and their responses will start to vary accordingly.
Another aspect may be that it is good practise to be polite, and getting in the habit of just giving orders makes us into less tolerable people in daily life, so it's good to keep up those manners!
Anyway, Thank you for reading!
Hi, and welcome to the renewed Lanboss! Our previous clients will remember us for our networked systems monitoring, management and security tooling...
In renewing Lanboss, we're using our data science and anaylsis backgrounds to help organisations prepare datasets for LLM training and fine-tuning, alongside our user education and governance services - all to promote the safe use of AI in the workplace. We aim to release a number of products this year using AI as well as provisioning AI solutions for our clients.
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