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Hardening RAG System Against Hallucinations โ with Azure stack
This article was created as part of the Agentic Azure Insights community initiative Berg Digital contributes into. When building a RAG system, one must take into account risk of hallucinations. In this article I will share my experience identifying sources of hallucinations and provide proven hardening strategies that help to identify and mitigate risk of hallucinations in RAG application developed with Azure stack (OpenAI, AI Search, Document Intelligence as key components). Text aims two audiences: those who build their first RAG system, and also those who operate a RAG system that sometimes gives wrong answers. Read more
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Switzerland #1 for an AI talent density. But we don’t have the same digital innovation level in daily life as in Dubai
Switzerland #1 for an AI talent density, holding 110.5 AI researchers and inventors per 100,000 people, but we don’t have the same digital innovation level in daily life as in Dubai. Why so? We have an affluent population, high density, perfect infrastructure, high level of safety and freedoms โ yet lots of processes are still paper-and-mail based. ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ reached $242M, expanding at a 22% CAGR.๐ฆ๐ช The UAE AI market is almost 3x: $706M, expanding at 30% CAGR. Just few thoughts why: High Labor Costs๐จ๐ญ- High salaries for IT engineers force innovators to setup engineering hubs elsewhere, increasing time… Read more
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Does the Swiss way of AI regulation Win?
Yesterday I wrote about yet another requirement imposed by the EU AI Act (link below). However, we did not hear much about laws and regulations from Switzerland. This is because the country is taking a radically different route: targeted, technology-neutral, and lean. Instead of passing an overarching “Swiss AI Act,” Switzerland designs a framework that allows businesses to adapt as fast as technology evolves.Here are the must-know pillars of Swiss AI regulation: ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฐ๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป (๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ): it mandates explicit transparency for automated decision-making on individuals and prescribes strict data transfer protocols, for example when personal data leaves Switzerland… Read more
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Should Swiss AI-companies take an action because of the EU AI Act’s Transparency rules are officially live?
Should Swiss AI-companies react to the EU AI Act’s Transparency rules (officially live from 2 Aug)? Shortest answer โ YES, if your business serves any AI-generated content to customers, partners, employees or just random users from the EU.AI-generated job description? Mark it! AI-generated blog post? Mark it! AI-generated photo of people gathering in your office? Mark it! ๐ต Labeling costs you nothing, and mitigates the risk of getting a fine of up to โฌ15 million or 3% of total worldwide annual turnover for the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher. For SMEs and startups, authorities will scale the penalty… Read more
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Supercomputers: where Switzerland stands in the Global AI Race
As mentioned in the previous “nuclear” post, energy forms the foundation of technological sovereignty. The next pillar for it is the sovereign infrastructure. Let’s take a look at the global supercomputers landscape โ hardware that is absolutely necessary to train the next generation of AI models. Working 15+ years in Enterprise IT & Finance and having a degree in Physics, I could not miss these details: ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐น ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐ ๐๐ผ ๐จ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ. ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ, installed in Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, delivers ๐ฎ.๐ฎ ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ข๐ฃ๐ฆ of compute consuming 42kW of power. However, there are only 2 supercomputers in… Read more
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Is Nuclear energy the hidden foundation of Global/Swiss AI Sovereignty?
What is necessary to achieve AI Sovereignty? Some argue it is a state-trained LLM, others โ presence of local infrastructure. Having a degree in Physics, I believe AI is built on power: nuclear power. Here is the cold, hard math. Data centers demand constant power, driving reliance on energy companies. Society wants power to be clean. Gas, coal, wind or solar energy โ are either expensive, or challenging to produce 24x7x365, and just not enough for continuous supply of gigawatt-scale. Who understands? ๐ก ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ (๐ฏ๐ด!), ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ (๐ด) ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ (๐ณ) dominate the nuclear energy landscape, driving the vast majority of… Read more
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Top 50 Fintech blogs for PR. Part 1
Following my FinTech Growth Hacking Checklist letโs talk about social media channels, also I included here blogs, different open topic-related platforms. Read my 50 FinTech media resources which I used for international promotion for my client. Additionally all of them perfectly fit for any kind of advertisement & SEO of your fintech project. 1. MEDICI: #1 in Global FinTech Insights United States. Blog Since 2013, MEDICI has been the first independent source of data-driven content and research dedicated to covering FinTech innovation globally, published every day, now offering an archive of 5000+ articles and insights. Frequency 1 post/day Facebook fans 12.9K โ Twitter… Read more
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FinTech. Top 7 metrics to monitor. Product management
To eliminate possible problems with your product management and mitigate risks, it is important to understand which metrics indicate them, and which reflect complete story about your customers, your business and the market, understand a correlation between them and leverage it. Operating in a high competitive sector, FinTech companies gathering big data feeds should ask themselves: Furthermore, each metric tells you so much in isolation. To provide a proper FinTech analysis you have to map out the complex relationships between how your product or app is functioning, do your marketing efforts perform well and figure out how it all fits… Read more
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A/B testing. Best practices for FinTech
Following my Growth marketing checklist for FinTech, which was written some posts ago, letโs consider today a A/B or Split testing. Imagine, you want to move a certain call-to-action (CTA) button to the top of your homepage instead of keeping it in the sidebar and improve its click-through rate. To A/B test this hypothesis, you need to create another, alternative web page that reflected that CTA placement change. The starting design โ or the “control” โ is Version A. Version B is the “challenger.” Then, you test these two versions by showing each of them to a predetermined percentage of… Read more
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Influencer marketing regulation. 16 different markets
Letโs proceed with previous topic (all of them from the Growth hacking checklist for FinTech) and consider today a legal part of Influencer marketing. Well, for FinTech Influencer marketing work all rules below. Thus In the UK and the US appeared the rules. But common issue arises when there isnโt a monetary exchange or formal agreement between advertisers and influencers, but free products or โgiftingโ are offered in exchange for content. In the UK for instance if a brand has any level of input or editorial control over what an influencer posts โ this counts an advertisement and must comply… Read more