RAG continues to rise

04/10/24 • 48 min

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Daniel & Chris delight in conversation with “the funniest guy in AI”, Demetrios Brinkmann. Together they explore the results of the MLOps Community’s latest survey. They also preview the upcoming AI Quality Conference.

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Practical AI - RAG continues to rise

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Transcript for Practical AI #264 Daniel Whitenack:

Welcome to another episode of the Practical AI podcast. This is Daniel Whitenack. I am founder and CEO at Prediction Guard. I'm joined as always by my co-host, Chris Benson, who is a principal AI research engineer at Lockheed Martin. How are you doing, Chris?

Chris Benson:

Doing good Daniel. How's it going today, man?

Daniel Whitenack:

It's going great. I just landed in Boston, and you wer