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Essays on AI, voice, and language.
Longer pieces on how AI is changing the work of building products, teams, and businesses.
AI Agents are automation, grown up
Stop asking if agents work. Start asking what they should do.
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Matching Images to Book Quotes with AI
Moving beyond keyword matching.
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What’s in the EU’s AI Act
A ‘global first’ in regulating AI.
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AI Ethics Lessons from The Post Office Scandal
AI ethics can learn lessons from the past.
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Coaching and mentoring as a manager
Two approaches to helping your team grow.
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Small language models
When large language models are just too large.
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Making LLMs Work
Prompt Engineering, Instruction Tuning, RLHF & other ways to make LLMs work.
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What’s a parameter in an LLM?
How to think about a billion parameters.
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ML Job Roles
What roles are needed in an organisation building an ML product?
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The evolution of AI
How did we get to today?
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What are Large Language Models?
A look at LLMs and their popularity.
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Talk about impact, not effort
Sharing status at work.
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The evolution of conversational AI
Decades of progress in how machines hold a conversation.
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What does an ML manager do?
The multifaceted job of managing machine learning experts.
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What does a machine learning scientist do in industry?
Building models and much more.
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The model is the easy part
What’s really needed to build an ML product?
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Voice and language technology in call centres
An AI adoption case study.
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Storytelling and communication
Make your point by telling a story.
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The Colours of the Sky
Beyond blue, our sky takes on many spectacular hues.
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Where to find data for machine learning
High quality data is key for building useful machine learning models.
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Speech is more than spoken text
Words carry meaning, but there’s much more to spoken language.
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Visualising speech
Using Python libraries to visualise audio.
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Bias creeps into technology
We can’t avoid bringing our own perspective to the products we build.
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Describing AI
How the language we use about AI obscures what’s really going on.
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What is artificial intelligence?
An umbrella term covering many techniques.
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