Your AI Chatbot Is Actually a Computer—And You’ve Been Programming It Wrong
Here's something that might rewire how you think about AI: that chatbot you've been treating like a know-it-all friend? It's actually a virtual machine. And every time you type a prompt, you're writing a program. I know, I know. It feels like having a conversation. The model responds in natural language, occasionally tells jokes, sometimes…
AI Can Write Cost Sheets in Minutes. Accurate Ones? That’s Harder.
The promise is clear: Feed an AI your project description, employee data, and supplier catalog, and it will generate a detailed cost sheet in minutes instead of weeks. No more spreadsheet archaeology. No more chasing down procurement for vendor quotes. In theory. Several research teams and startups are already building this future. Early results suggest…
LoRA Without Regret: A Practitioner’s Guide to Reliable Fine-Tuning
In the early days of adapter-based tuning, LoRA often felt like a charming hack—efficient, plausible, but with a nagging question: would performance always trail full fine-tuning? New research from Thinking Machines, led by John Schulman (co-founder of OpenAI and creator of the PPO algorithm), argues that the difference is not inevitable. Under the right regime,…
