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Demystifying Content Chunking In Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Knowledge Management
We encounter content chunks every day. Think of a recipe. A recipe contains content components like a title, a list of ingredients, cooking times, pictures of food, and instructions that contain individual steps. These are “chunks” that together compose a recipe. The process of chunking this...
5-Point RAG Strategy Guide to Prevent Hallucinations & Bad Answers This guide designed to help teams working on GenAI Initiatives gives you five actionable strategies for RAG pipelines that will improve answer quality and prevent hallucinations.
Natural Language Processing – A Deep Dive for IT Leaders and Data Scientists
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary field blending computer science, artificial intelligence, and linguistics, aimed at enabling computers to understand, interpret, and engage with human language in both written and spoken forms. NLP combines computational linguistics with...
The Future of Knowledge in Customer Service
We live in an on-demand world. Customers expect every product delivered to the doorstep, every service ordered online, and any information they seek immediately available at their fingertips. When customers have questions, they expect answers–on demand. As customer expectations have risen, so have...
Challenges and Considerations in Natural Language Processing
The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed significant advancements, yet it continues to face notable challenges and considerations. These obstacles not only highlight the complexity of human language but also underscore the need for careful and responsible development of NLP...
10 Tried and Tested Generative AI Prompts for Customer Service Agents
This article presents 10 Generative AI prompts tested and refined to improve customer service effectiveness excerpted from our eBook, 51 Tried and Tested Generative AI Prompts for Customer Service Agents. With Generative AI, agents can rapidly generate personalized, context-aware responses across...
Opening the Black Box: How to Create AI Transparency and Explainability to Build Trust
Can we really trust Artificial Intelligence? Let’s face it. AI has trust issues. AI is rapidly permeating our lives. But perhaps even more rapidly permeating, are fears about AI. Fears that are largely due to a lack of transparency as to how AI works. These concerns are evident in questions people...
AI Bias, What It Is and How to Fix It
What Is Bias in AI? In the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), bias is an anomaly that skews outcomes, often reflecting societal inequities. AI bias can originate from various sources, including the data used to train AI models, the design of algorithms themselves, and the way results are...
The IT Leader’s Guide to Preparing Structured and Unstructured Data for Generative AI
Businesses have long been increasingly inundated with an unprecedented volume of data. The challenge now is not just about storing ample data but managing, classifying, and transforming this structured and unstructured data into fuel for the engine of business. The critical role of data...
Generative AI and Data Preparation in an Integrated AI Strategy
Identifying how Generative AI and data preparation fits into your business case is a complex endeavor. If you are feeling overwhelmed trying to keep up with emerging AI technologies and applications — and it’s almost 100% likely that you are—you are not alone. Because “almost 100%” by definition...
Continuous Improvement and Machine Learning Ops (MLOps)
The effectiveness of AI implementations, such as generative AI, is intrinsically linked to the quality and structure of the underlying data. However, maintaining the relevance and quality of this data is not a one-time task. It requires a continuous improvement approach, where machine learning...
What Are Embeddings in Machine Learning?
In machine learning, embeddings are a technique used to represent complex, high-dimensional data like words, sentences, or even entire documents in a more manageable, lower-dimensional space. An analogy would be nice. Right. Think about Lego bricks. A lot of them. High-dimensional data is like the...