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Building an AI Knowledge Base That Actually Works

Labs Learning - April 2026 This is Part 2 of a two-part series on building AI knowledge bases. Read Part 1: Your AI Knowledge Base Is Only as Good as What You Feed It In the last post, I talked about the data quality problem: how 87% of my AI knowledge base turned out to […]

Your AI Knowledge Base Is Only as Good as What You Feed It

Labs Learning - April 2026 This is Part 1 of a two-part series on building AI knowledge bases. Read Part 2: Building an AI Knowledge Base That Actually Works There's a type of AI system that's becoming increasingly popular in businesses of all sizes. It's called RAG - retrieval-augmented generation - and the basic idea […]

Building a Live Speech to Text AI

One thing you may not know about me is that when I run workshops or live demos for organisations, I always give the organiser explicit permission - twice - to interrupt me. Here's why: I have ADHD. I have it...

What the Hell Is "Data"?

One thing that really frustrates me about AI consultants - and software engineers - is when they say things like: "You need to know your data" "You need to have clean data" "You need to know where your data...

AI Will Quietly Keep Getting Better

Boring AI research breakthroughs will change your work (but won't make headlines) I've been reading AI research papers for months. Most cover incremental improvements that won't matter for ages. But when I...

RAG is the "killer app" of AI

RAG is the "killer app" of AI. Or, at least, it's the killer app of AI for 2024 AI Agents will be the killer app of AI in 2025 and beyond. Watch this space... Back to RAG - it's not a specific app. It's a...

Types of AI Explained: A Map for Business Leaders

Beyond ChatGPT and Large Language Models With all the buzz around ChatGPT and other large language models, it's easy to think AI is just about these impressive chatbots. But AI is much more than that. While...

Frontier v Small Models

Understanding AI Models: Frontier vs. Small Models AI is redefining how we work, live, and socialise. But when it comes to choosing the right AI model for your projects, it can be confusing. Do you need the...

How Many Sisters Does Sally Have?

Improving AI Reasoning with Simple Instructions: A Comparative Study This is a simple demo to show the reasoning capabilities - or lack thereof - of current language models. You can see how the "frontier"...

Take a Deep Breath?

Boosting AI Accuracy with a Simple Prompt: "Take a Deep Breath" Telling an AI to "take a deep breath" sounds unconventional, doesn't it? But this simple instruction can significantly enhance AI performance....

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