Wessel Janse van Rensburg Wessel Janse van Rensburg

An AI that knows you and your business

It matters that AI has easily updatable memory. Without dynamic memory, AI cannot act sequentially on a plan or get to know you or your business. Up to now, one method to address this, besides expensive one-off fine-tuning, is the so-called Retrieval Augmented Generation or RAG.

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Wessel Janse van Rensburg Wessel Janse van Rensburg

The political economy of AI

Size matters in AI. The importance of scale and its cost has implications as to who will benefit most from AI, and it will be felt from geopolitics to competitiveness to the structure of our economies.

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Wessel Janse van Rensburg Wessel Janse van Rensburg

Our current AI acceleration started in 2012

Pinpointing the exact moment when the machine learning revolution began is challenging, as advancements have been steadily unfolding for several decades. However, if one has to choose a year, the year 2012 would be it. That year was indeed a significant milestone in the field of deep learning, a subfield of machine learning.

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