1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (918+ words) Now that major computer manufacturers are pushing “AI PCs” and often charging a premium for them, should businesses shell out the extra cash to buy them? On PC manufacturers’ websites, you’ll find no shortage of marketing literature claiming that AI-specific…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (508+ words) So much of the discussion around AI is centered around scale and power. Many assume that running AI requires massive amounts of compute power, storage, GPUs, and memory. But this simply isn’t true. Today, there are local large language models…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (635+ words) Nobody warned you that “we’re adding AI capabilities” would translate into a cloud invoice that reads like a mortgage payment. GPU compute is now the single largest uncontrolled line itemOpens a new window on cloud bills for teams running AI…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (778+ words) If you’re an elder-millennial / Xennial like me, you probably remember the iconic “Don’t Copy That Floppy”Opens a new window anti-piracy media campaign, put out by the Software Publisher’s Association in 1992. This earworm of a rap video was shown widely…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (786+ words) If you’re an elder-millennial / Xennial like me, you probably remember the iconic “Don’t Copy That Floppy”Opens a new window anti-piracy media campaign, put out by the Software Publisher’s Association in 1992. This earworm of a rap video was shown widely…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (718+ words) The internet represents critical infrastructure that facilitates communication, drives productivity, and enables commerce, which is of vital importance to nearly every organization on the planet and we have the numbers to prove it. Today, nearly everybody and every organization is…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (475+ words) We all know that when you flip a fair (unbiased) coin, the probability of “heads” (or “tails”) is 50%, or 0.50. Sometimes, we forget that this means the probability of flipping, say, six heads (or tails) in a row is: (0.50) x (0.50) x…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (558+ words) RAG talk is prevalent, yet simply stating “we used RAG” fails to provide much information about its effectiveness in a production environment. A more effective approach is to examine how you align retrieval patterns with the specific problem at hand:…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (895+ words) IT hiring and workforce experts lending their insights to this article are Sam Bertroud, VP of talent solutions at HackajobOpens a new window, Kanani Breckenridge, CEO at Kismet SearchOpens a new window, Nicole Notar, CEO at VindicaraOpens a new window,…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (993+ words) In many cases, you can build an AI pilot fairly quickly without much elbow grease. But getting it into production, where it has to run on real data and survive contact with people who missed the demo, takes months if…...