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How Google’s Agent2Agent can boost AI productivity through inter-agent communication

Ben Dickson — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:29:57 +0000

Google's new A2A framework lets different AI agents chat and work together seamlessly, breaking down silos and improving productivity across platforms.

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Demystifying vibe coding: Hype, reality, and why you still need to code

Ben Dickson — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 14:16:42 +0000

There is a lot of hype surrounding "vibe coding." But there is a darker reality to letting AI write your entire code and ignoring fundamental software skills.

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What is Model Context Protocol (MCP)?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:57:55 +0000

Model Context Protocol (MCP) simplifies LLM integration with external tools, enhancing AI agents' functionality and flexibility in various applications.

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What to know about Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic’s new frontier language model

Ben Dickson — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:28:56 +0000

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is an LLM that combines both general-purpose and reasoning tasks into a single model to take on the likes of o3, Grok 3, and DeepSeek-R1.

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Everything you need to know about Grok-3

Ben Dickson — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:54:29 +0000

Grok-3 storms the AI scene, boasting superior capabilities and competitive benchmarks. Here's everything to know about this new LLM and LRM from xAI.

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Understanding LLM ensembles and mixture-of-agents (MoA)

Ben Dickson — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:10:21 +0000

LLM ensembles use the power of teamwork to improve the responses of models. Mixture-of-agents (MoA), a more advanced technique, takes ensembles to the next level.

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Demystifying DeepSeek-R1, the model that shocked the AI industry

Ben Dickson — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:01:23 +0000

There is a lot of hype and confusion around DeepSeek-R1. Here is what you need to know about how this reasoning model works and what makes it special.

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What to know about OpenAI o3-mini

Ben Dickson — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000

OpenAI's o3-mini is a game-changer—faster, cheaper, and smarter than o1, but it's also a bid to reclaim dominance amid DeepSeek's rising threat.

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What to know about the alternatives to OpenAI o1 and o3

Ben Dickson — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000

OpenAI o1 and o3 are very effective at math, coding, and reasoning tasks. But they are not the only models that can reason.

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What to know about open-source alternatives to GPT-4 Vision

Ben Dickson — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000

GPT-4 Vision is an impressive model that can create new user experiences. Fortunately, there are open-source alternatives. But they come with caveats.

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The complete guide to LLM compression

Ben Dickson — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Large language models (LLM) require huge memory and computational resources. LLM compression techniques make models more compact and executable on memory-constrained devices.

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A simple guide to gradient descent in machine learning

Ben Dickson — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Gradient descent is the main technique for training machine learning and deep learning models. Read all about it.

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The complete guide to LLM fine-tuning

Ben Dickson — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Everything to know about LLM fine-tuning, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT)

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What is low-rank adaptation (LoRA)?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 22 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is a technique that cuts the costs of fine-tuning large language models (LLM) to a fraction of its actual figure.

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What to know about augmented language models

Ben Dickson — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Large language models suffer from fundamental problems, such as failing at math and reasoning. Augmented language models address some of these problems.

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What you need to know about multimodal language models

Ben Dickson — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Multimodal language models bring together text, images, and other datatypes to solve some of the problems current artificial intelligence systems suffer from.

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What is reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF)?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is the technique that has made ChatGPT very impressive. But there is more to RLHF that large language models (LLM).

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What is the “forward-forward” algorithm, Geoffrey Hinton’s new AI technique?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000

In a new NeurIPS paper, Geoffrey Hinton introduced the “forward-forward algorithm,” a new learning algorithm for artificial neural networks inspired by the brain.

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What is boosting in machine learning?

Contributor — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000

By Mona Eslamijam This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. We train machine learning models to predict values such as the weather, stock prices, the class of an image, or the sentiment of a social media post. However, often, machine learning models […]

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Machine learning: What is the transformer architecture?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 02 May 2022 13:03:52 +0000

The transformer model has become one of the main highlights of advances in deep learning and deep neural networks.

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What is neural architecture search?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Neural architecture search NAS is a series of machine learning techniques that can help discover optimal neural networks for a given problem.

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What is a support vector machine (SVM)?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Support vector machine (SVM) is a type of machine learning algorithm that can be used for classification and regression tasks.

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What is data augmentation?

Ben Dickson — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Data augmentation improves machine learning performance by generating new training examples from existing data.

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What are graph neural networks (GNN)?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Graph neural networks (GNN) are a type of machine learning algorithm that can extract important information from graphs and make useful predictions.

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Demystifying deep reinforcement learning

Ben Dickson — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Deep reinforcement learning is one of the most interesting branches of AI, responsible for achievements such as mastering complex games, self-driving cars, and robotics.

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What is federated learning?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Federated learning is a technique that helps train machine learning models without sending sensitive user data to the cloud.

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An introduction to object detection with deep learning

Ben Dickson — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Learn how deep neural networks detect objects in images in this primer on object detection with deep learning.

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Machine learning: What is dimensionality reduction?

Ben Dickson — Thu, 13 May 2021 12:50:28 +0000

Dimensionality reduction slashes the costs of machine learning and sometimes makes it possible to solve complicated problems with simpler models.

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Machine learning: What are membership inference attacks?

Ben Dickson — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Membership inference attacks can detect examples used to train machine learning models even after those examples have been discarded.

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What is semi-supervised machine learning?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:17:39 +0000

Semi-supervised learning helps you solve classification problems when you don't have labeled data to train your machine learning model.

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What is ensemble learning?

Ben Dickson — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:28:03 +0000

Ensemble learning is a popular machine learning technique that combines several models to improve overall accuracy of AI algorithms.

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What is machine learning data poisoning?

Ben Dickson — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 13:00:10 +0000

Data poisoning attack target the training of machine learning algorithms and cause them to behave maliciously during inference.

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What are deepfakes?

Ben Dickson — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 13:00:30 +0000

Deepfakes use deep learning algorithm to swap parts of image. They have given rise to a new generation of AI-doctored videos.

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Key differences between machine learning and automation

Contributor — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 13:00:23 +0000

By Vanessa Kearney Any business looking to streamline its processes and move to more efficient models will encounter automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence along the way. Although in 2020 we’re a far cry from sentient machinery taking over, these buzzwords are currently hot property across every industry, from manufacturing to services. So it’s essential […]

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What is one-shot learning?

Ben Dickson — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 13:00:19 +0000

One-shot learning allows deep learning algorithms to measure the similarity and difference between two images.

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What is adversarial machine learning?

Ben Dickson — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:00:52 +0000

Adversarial examples are slight manipulations that cause machine learning algorithms to misclassify images while going unnoticed to the human eye.

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What are recurrent neural networks (RNN)?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 13:00:40 +0000

Recurrent neural networks enable computers to process text, videos, time series, and other sequential data.

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What is artificial general intelligence (general AI/AGI)?

Ben Dickson — Wed, 13 May 2020 13:00:45 +0000

The quest for creating thinking machines has split artificial intelligence into two fields: Narrow AI, what we have, and general AI, what we wish to achieve

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Are you using AI terminology correctly?

Contributor — Wed, 06 May 2020 13:00:56 +0000

By Rana Gujral Artificial intelligence as a discipline consists of hundreds of individual technologies, concepts, and applications. These terms have become increasingly important as STEM education expands and there is a boom in practical household and consumer-facing applications for the technology. Despite that, there is a lack of consistency in how many AI concepts are […]

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What is browser fingerprinting?

Contributor — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:38:09 +0000

By Gabor Takacs Web tracking is the practice by which websites and third-party companies collect information about users’ online activity. The basis of tracking is the accurate identification of users – you are detected and identified even when you’re just passing through a random website that you are not signed in to. The conventional solution […]

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What is artificial narrow intelligence (Narrow AI)?

Ben Dickson — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:06:40 +0000

Narrow AI technologies are very good at solving specific problems, but they fall short of fulfilling the requirements for human-level AI.

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A brief history of search engine optimization (SEO)

Contributor — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:00:38 +0000

By Katie Kuchta How long since you let your fingers go walking through the Yellow Pages? Or cracked open an encyclopedia? Or called the library looking for help with homework? If you’re like most of the online world, your answer is “a long time”—or “never.” Search engines have made those activities as outmoded as buggy […]

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What is the difference between supervised and unsupervised machine learning?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:00:49 +0000

The two main types of machine learning categories are supervised and unsupervised learning. In this post, we examine their key features and differences.

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What are convolutional neural networks (CNN)?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:41:58 +0000

Convolutional neural networks (CNN), or ConvNets, have become the cornerstone of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years. Their capabilities and limits are an interesting study of where AI stands today.

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What is symbolic artificial intelligence?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:00:25 +0000

Everything you need to know about symbolic artificial intelligence, the branch of AI that dominated for five decades.

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What is neuromorphic computing?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:00:51 +0000

To create better artificial intelligence hardware, researchers have been drawing inspiration from the brain. The result is neuromorphic chips, which have grown in popularity in the past years.

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What is the AI brain drain?

Ben Dickson — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:00:11 +0000

Huge salaries and bonuses at tech firms are luring AI scientists away from universities. How will this artificial intelligence brain drain affect the AI industry?

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What are artificial neural networks (ANN)?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:00:36 +0000

Everything you need to know about artificial neural networks (ANN), the state-of-the-art of artificial intelligence that help computers solve tasks that are impossible with classic AI approaches.

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What are enterprise applications and how they will impact businesses in 2019

Contributor — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 13:00:19 +0000

This beginner’s guide to enterprise applications will tell you what they are, why they’re beneficial, and how businesses can use them in 2019.

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What is emotion AI?

Contributor — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 13:00:06 +0000

As artificial intelligence becomes more ubiquitous in consumer applications, it must better understand human emotions. That’s where emotion AI comes in.

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