Here are some hot of the press results from a trial we have been running the last few weeks. We tested how accurately AI models responded to a broad set of 400 consumer queries on UK pensions. We tested our own UK Pensions Expert AI that we have been developing…

A quick opinion — A memo from Google on where they are losing out in AI This supposed leaked memo from the Google Brain AI team last week is very interesting for anyone trying to follow what may happen on the business and strategy side of AI. In a nutshell it’s saying that Google and OpenAI are rapidly being beaten by the Open Source community on…

Qdrant is one of the new generation of databases that allows content to be indexed by vectors — the vectors most often being created by large language model (LLM) AIs. These databases become powerful content stores for LLMs to use as a backend for content. There are a number of…

If you are a business leader wanting to get your organisation using AI, but your teams seem to be spinning their wheels considering many options. How do you help them pin down scope, and focus? Here are three questions that might help focus the discussion and match the business need…

I’ve ended up taking a quite unconventional path since the start of the pandemic. Some people think I am crazy and sometimes I wonder if I am too. So what have I been doing, and how do I feel about it three years on? Firstly, cover the basics Nothing much can happen in life…

I finally got my head around the user permissions using Docker on a Linux host. It’s actually quite simple. This is a quick summary that helps align permissions inside and outside of the container. Understanding how user permissions work inside and outside of the container matters when you are mounting…

The latest large language models such as GPT-3 are uncannily good in having a sensible conversation. But do they understand enough of the financial concepts they are talking about to provide financial guidance to the broader population? TL’DR — I ran some experiments using GPT-3 as a financial guidance AI…

A Python code snippet — I don’t know why there is no rounding function in the Python standard library that allows rounding to a certain number of significant figures. I come across the need to do this quite a lot. The attached little function does the job. Perhaps something that does this job should make…

There are many different notes on how to wake up remote machines from other machines over the network. This ‘Wake-on-LAN’ service sends a magic packet to the Ethernet adapter of the switched off machine and boots it up. However some instructions are complicated and convoluted. These notes record the simplest…