Tag Archives: AI

AI Reasoning and Planning

Until very recently, it was observed that LLMs had a very hard time with complex problems. Context was lost, memory of previous steps was distorted, and so forth. This led to unreliable results (hallucinations) and, consequently, to a lack of … Continue reading

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PEAS for Agent AI

A classic AI framework to define an agent’s task environment is PEAS. It stands for:

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The R in RAG

In my previous post we looked at saving to the vector store. In this short post we’ll look at retrieving that information. The simple search is a good starting point and depends on writing a good prompt, but we can … Continue reading

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RAG In Detail

In my previous post I walked through a RAG example but glossed over the details. In this post I’ll back up and walk through the program line by line. The key steps in RAG are

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RAG – A Quick Example

In the previous blog post, we imported a few Python modules and configured our AI key, using Colab. In this blog post we’ll use Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to extend an LLM that we’ll get from OpenAI. I’ll use a number … Continue reading

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Learning AI

Very excited to say that I have purchased 3-4 books in preparation for the Azure AI 900 certification from Microsoft. I will be creating another series here, distilling down what I learn, even while we keep the API series going. … Continue reading

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Azure Functions & Durable Functions

Creating the Project with CoPilot As part of the API tutorials we decided we needed a Database with two tables: Book and Author. Books will join Author and there can be as many authors as we want. Rather than writing … Continue reading

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