A Whale of a Tale: The Size-Matters Misconception For Generative AI
In this new age of generative AI, everyone has made a major assumption for which a pressing question has emerged. You can see this manifesting in certain nerdy corners of social media. This screenshot of Reddit and Twitter posts shows the rising curiosity about the effectiveness of small, open-source models versus their large, proprietary counterparts. […]
Can Tiny Titans Take On The Giants in Generative AI? How Small Language Models Are Matching Up to Large Language Models.
With the rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs), the world has begun to rely on the APIs of managed AI models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4. Its cutting-edge capabilities and developer-friendly interface have gained a large fan base not only in academia but also in the industry-wide as well. As every rose has its thorn, […]
What’s In Store For The Next Generation Of AI? The Jaseci Perspective
Behind every great application, game, and digital experience are the endless lines of code produced in one of the popular programming languages. You know, the Pythons, JavaScripts, Javas—the list goes on. And the more you work with these popular programming languages, the quicker you discover the true meaning of compromise. That’s not to say these […]
What Is Conversational AI? ZeroShot Bot CEO Jason Mars Explains
Entrepreneur Jason Mars calls conversation our “first technology.” Before humans invented the wheel, crafted a spear or tamed fire, we mastered the superpower of talking to one another. That makes conversation an incredibly important tool. But if you’ve dealt with the automated chatbots deployed by the customer service arms of just about any big organization […]
The Future Of Artificial Intelligence In Guyana
Welcome To the Future Nov, 2022 v75 Inc. a local technology company has teamed up with Professor Jason Mars, creator of Jaseci – a leading artificial intelligence programme – to create Guyana’s own Silicon Valley. Once established, Guyana’s talented young minds will be able to build their own AI products to be marketed and […]
V75’s Jaseci Apprenticeship Program
Awesome Outputs from the Jaseci AI Apprenticeship Program Oct, 2022 The Jaseci AI Paid Apprenticeship program, executed by V75 Inc. in collaboration with Nexus Hub Inc and funded by IDB Lab was recently concluded. The paid apprenticeship program saw some of the most impressive AI products being demoed by the nine apprentices who qualified […]
A Jaseci Outreach Story
“In one of our previous publications we covered V75 Inc.’s adoption of Jaseci though a bootcamp organized by the company. V75 Inc. is one of Guyana’s prominent technology firms which specializes in conversational AI and enterprise solutions. Since then, their developers have continued on the journey of building with the platform. We consider this one […]
Jaseci Labs collaborates with Government of Guyana on mass AI upskilling programme
The Jaseci Spark AI Programme which aims to introduce students to Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology was launched today at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD). The programme is a product of the collaboration between the Ministry of Education and the LEAD Mindset, JASECI Labs and BCS Technology. Students from more than 10 secondary […]
Tech firm that delivered AI for US Bank and Barclays organizes a Jaseci Hackathon
One of Guyana’s prominent technology firms which specializes in conversational AI and enterprise systems development, V75 Inc organized a two-day boot camp to get their technical team ramped up on a relatively new but powerful technology stack called Jaseci (find out more at https://jaseci.org ). Jaseci is an open source AI ecosystem bringing with it […]
Setting Up Jaseci On Apple M1 Macs (ARM Processors)
Core Jaseci and its built-in libraries run great on an M1 mac, with Rosetta enabled. However, using packages such as use_qa can result in errors such as Illegal instruction: 4, followed by python crashing and a VERY LONG list of errors, most of which you cannot make sense of… The Short (and Sweet) Way… Use […]
Inter-American Development Bank funded Jaseci AI apprenticeship program – July 1, 2022
Select participants from the Jaseci AI / Spark program, which saw nearly two hundred Guyanese youth upskilled in leadership and AI tracks, gained the opportunity to further their foundational AI training through the Jaseci AI apprenticeship program. This program was funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Lab under project GY-T1162 – Developing Guyana’s ICT […]