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1 month ago | 
finextra.com | Erica Andersen |Neil Gentleman-Hobbs |SmartR AI
Thankfully, despite the Tech bros latest hype handle, 'Vibe coding'
isn't yet a widely recognized or standardized term in software development. It is a hip but informal or colloquial expression but a dangerous one that is a danger to our western coding resource. Lose the skills in any industry or country and you
lose the fundamentals and resilience to bounce or fight back
Chief chuckle brother VC Sam Altman's never fails to disappoint from a humor perspective, if not a financial one.
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1 month ago | 
finextra.com | Erica Andersen |Neil Gentleman-Hobbs
The
big grift now in AI is that 'it is not AI that will take your job but the person using AI'. Therefore the underworked consultants are offering - for a handsome fee - over elaborate AI training courses. Served with a word salad this is a variation on prompt
engineering mirage that has worn thinner than the emperors new clothes.
This is a callous form of FOMO (fear of missing out) to a middle class aware that is desperate to maintain their status as the western economies go south.
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2 months ago | 
finextra.com | Erica Andersen |Neil Gentleman-Hobbs |SmartR AI
The new buzzword in the AI hype machine is Agentic AI and CTO's and data professionals are right to be cautious!
The shift in terminology from "Small Language Models (SLMs)" to "Agentic AI" does seem like a bit of a marketing makeover. While there are some genuine advancements behind it, it's important to see through the hype. Here's a cut to
the chase and breakdown of what's going on:
What are SLMs? These are essentially more compact, focused versions of Large Language Models (LLMs).
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2 months ago | 
finextra.com | Erica Andersen |Neil Gentleman-Hobbs |SmartR AI
With all the hype over agentic AI and the cartel's bigger is better for business thinking, the disruptive power of Small Language models continues to go under the radar.
Small Language Models (SLMs) are poised to revolutionize the way businesses interact with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
finextra.com | Erica Andersen |Neil Gentleman-Hobbs |SmartR AI
Compliance and AI regulations (like DORA, the EU AI Act and GDPR) are increasingly being seen as holding
Europe back in AI uptake and innovation. Without getting into a can of worms that has a counter-argument that these regulations can actually
benefit Europe in the long run, let us look at how new legislation can shape AI in the banking sector.
DORA stands for the Digital Operational Resilience Act.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
finextra.com | Erica Andersen |Neil Gentleman-Hobbs |SmartR AI
As I am sure many of you are aware, there is a growing discussion around the plateauing of Large Language Models (LLMs), and how alternative approaches like Specialized Language Models (SLMs) could address these limitations. Given the huge amounts of venture
capital going into LLMs and chips at the tech cartel and, the internal investments at the big consultants and corporations, what’s left of actual free market capitalism needs to spend it’s money wisely.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
finextra.com | Erica Andersen |Neil Gentleman-Hobbs |SmartR AI
The rise of large language models (LLMs) and other AI systems has created an insatiable demand for data. While these models offer incredible potential, their hunger for data presents a significant challenge for enterprises striving to maintain data privacy.
We also need to see data privacy within the whole data is power context to guarantee a long-term rent seeking income. The control of our data and AI is finding itself in the hands of a small number of people within the big tech cartel.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
finextra.com | Neil Gentleman-Hobbs |SmartR AI
Despite the bigger is better AI hype, real techies, not tech bro's for show, are sticking to our instincts, because those LLM hallucinations are not going away are they? The pursuit of perfection is not going to come from a competition stifling Big Bucks
Big Tech cartel, but rather a collaboration of real people sharing ideas for good - which means being collaborative and genuinely innovative. Saving places, people, planet and purse strings.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
finextra.com | Neil Gentleman-Hobbs |SmartR AI
We need to start taking data privacy and data broking seriously because it would cut energy consumption if only companies adopted private SLMs rather than the huge open source LLMs offered by the big tech organizations. This would keep energy bills down
for all of us long suffering consumers who are just about to see another big increase in our bills this winter. It's simple supply and demand on a planet of finite resources.
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Aug 6, 2023 | 
linkedin.com | Neil Gentleman-Hobbs
The combination of Climate, Greed and the disgraceful stewardship of top level policy makers, will see a perfect storm gather with regards our food. This will accelerate the erosion of our traditional culture and values. We have to think locally and collaboratively as communities if we are to take any kind of ownership of the circles of self interest. Rome II ie the West is crumbling but we have the tech to ride it out for our planet and our children's sake. They are the stakeholders that matter.
