Author: Ted Troxell
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The Month AI Agents Stopped Being a Demo
Something shifted in the first two weeks of September, and it wasn’t a single announcement. It was the pattern. On September 9, OpenAI launched a Data agent inside ChatGPT Work, letting businesses connect their own data sources, ask questions in plain language, and get back interactive dashboards. Two days later, OpenAI put its managed Agents…
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DeepSeek R1: A Chinese Open-Source AI Model
DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model from a Chinese startup, is generating significant excitement within the AI community. Despite US export controls on advanced chips, DeepSeek leveraged existing resources and innovative engineering to create a model that rivals OpenAI’s ChatGPT in performance, but at a fraction of the cost. The company’s success highlights the potential for…
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AI Insights: Exploring Reasoning, Explanations, and Exploration
This podcast delves into the cutting-edge of Artificial Intelligence, focusing on three core areas: Reasoning Language Models (RLMs), Explainable AI (XAI), and exploration in Reinforcement Learning (RL). We will explore the capabilities and challenges of RLMs, examine new approaches to making AI decision-making more transparent using methods such as Shapley values, and investigate how agents…