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Brendon Geils

5 months

Introducing Athena, the industry's first Enterprise AI Data Analyst, from the team at Athena Intelligence. The team put together a short video showcasing Athena as an autonomous agent (skip to 8:00 to watch the entire workflow in under a minute).

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

5 months

Introducing Athena, the industry's first Enterprise AI Data Analyst, from the team at Athena Intelligence. The team put together a short video showcasing Athena as an autonomous agent (skip to 8:00 to see the entire workflow in 1 minute).

Enterprise AI Data Analyst | AI Agent | Athena Intelligence

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5 months

GPT-4 Omni Vision Demo on Athena Intelligence ... sign up for access here:

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3 months

We love @LangChainAI and would argue it's brought more AI applications into production than any other tool or framework. It might be easier to prototype something without a framework, but a framework allows a team that is running fast at a business problem to offload a large

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5 months

new merch drop ft @JuliusAI_ @0interestrates @badphilosopher

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Brendon Geils

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5 months

Thanks to everyone who shared our recent launch video! It had over 100k views across LinkedIn and Twitter. Most folks asked for a shorter form video to share --- here it is! Introducing Athena, the industry's first Enterprise AI Data Analyst, from the team at Athena

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@BrendonGeils

3 months

Controlling an interface with (mostly) your voice. Excited to release this feature set this week!

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@BrendonGeils

2 months

Engineering onsite in Prague! In the last two months we had the opportunity to build and deploy AI in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, NYC, SF, Prague and London next week! We’re hiring!

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@BrendonGeils

2 years

living in austin (a sales tech psuedo-capital) now has every pre-series A founder pivoting to “incorporate GPT”… i talk to the engineers at these startups and they have no idea what they should be building… the hammer looking for it’s nail.

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5 months

Athena Workbench: Easily share context with our AI Agent by dragging and dropping any assets into the workbench. We handle the context window, so you can add 100+ documents of any size across any LLM. Optimized for models from 8k up to 2M tokens.

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@BrendonGeils

4 months

A showcase of four Olympus interfaces in CoPilot Mode, with a toy example, saving and analyzing an OpenAI attendee list for an upcoming event. This video highlights the benefit of an ecosystem of copilot user interfaces. Depending on the work to be done, we can quickly pivot

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@BrendonGeils

3 months

17-page PDFs from a single prompt! Web research report and internal research reports! Try it out here:

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4 months

On sites in Belgium!

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@BrendonGeils

5 months

Athena Drive just got a major upgrade... Q&A across your assets now includes cited sources for pptx decks and documents when generating answers. We are also opening up access for folks to provide product feedback. All we ask is you repost one of our video demos and then DM me

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4 months

Highly recommend this team and product! It’s clear agents will browse the web on our behalf and those agents will do it Browserbase infra.

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4 months

Happy to share Browserbase with the world today. We help AI applications browse the web. And we just raised $6.5 million to do it. Now, we're opening signups to developers everywhere. I can't wait to see what you 🅱️uild.

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4 months

Athena mobile 🤘ft the newest app in the family Flows

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2 months

📊🎙🔊 Introducing Voice-driven Spreadsheets: Part 2 of our Voice-driven Olympus Workflows! 🚀 Manage your spreadsheets entirely with your voice using Athena Intelligence's tech. Navigate, input data, and execute commands seamlessly. Example use cases: Data Entry: - "Add

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

4 months

Browsing the web with an AI Copilot

Browse with Athena Intelligence

In this video, I provide a quick overview and training on how to use Browse. I demonstrate how to navigate to Browse using the search bar or the left-hand side menu. I also show the various quick...

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

2 years

chess is one of the few sports where it sounds ridiculous to only watch it and never play it. i consume 2-3 hours of chess per week but haven't played over a board in over a year now. also, the drama this week has been great #teammagnus #MagnusCarlsen #chessdrama

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

2 years

i’d love an impartial rating agency for saas software. the amount of sales jargon and vapor ware demos before you get presented with a 1 year minimum contract is criminal. i can’t imagine the amount of money that has been wasted on software that over promises and under delivers.

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4 months

@AthenaIntell before we hired @JacobColling and after...

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@BrendonGeils

8 months

I don't know who needs to see this, but here you go.

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

1 year

agent architectures on the up. excited by the progress here. testing causal tools at athena in this approach

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@BrendonGeils

1 year

Over the weekend, I dedicated a few hours to experimenting with the Auto GPT stack, and the results were simply thrilling. I integrated two tools - a BigQuery Connector and a DBT Connector - and tasked the agent with "derive useful metrics using DBT best practices". It did.

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@BrendonGeils

1 year

Can confirm! Great event, spectacular views and even better people.

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1 year

Yesterday’s tech party in NYC was a vibe.

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Brendon Geils

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2 years

shower thought today: founders and comedians aren't too dissimilar. we will try out material on our peers before prime time. story telling being at the heart of both.

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@BrendonGeils

5 months

Get in the nerds we’re headed to SF to build agents. NYC -> SF for the next few days… we bought one way flights… looking to smuggle full stack engineers in our luggage back to NY.

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

3 months

🚀 Join Our Team as a Platform Engineer in NYC! At Athena Intelligence, we're at the forefront of integrating AI into enterprise operations with our AI-native platform, Olympus, and our artificial employee, Athena. We're looking for Platform Engineers who are passionate about:

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9 months

simple saas is going to see a major 2024 wipeout. docs are more complex than the api capabilities and implementing these with an AI co-pilot is just as fast sometimes. the overhead of learning someone else’s mental models is not small

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5 months

@chiefaioffice @Prosus_Ventures weird they forgot Athena Intelligence 👀

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8 months

it’s a boeing too

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Brendon Geils

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2 months

@alliekmiller Releasing a series of videos around this tomorrow! We feel the same way. The bandwidth of speaking to a computer rather than typing is unmatched… as long as the diction is good, undo logic present, and non-destructive actions by default. Next hurdle is teaching users the pattern

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

2 years

since moving to austin, football is all the rage. thinking i should ease into it with a peewee team this month, junior high next and then if things go well high school by EOY #localfan

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@BrendonGeils

5 months

@mlejva +1 to this team and tech! Doubling down on a code first agentic world

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

5 months

You guessed it, another Athena Intelligence product release. Check out how we integrate a Sheets experience directly into the Olympus Platform with Athena quick commands.

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@BrendonGeils

1 year

High school throw back... when we were taught to recite "correlation doesn't equal causation" and then were taught correlation based stats techniques... I wonder why we never stopped to ask what the alternative causal methods were...

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4 months

@pk_iv LFG!

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@BrendonGeils

5 months

What are startups using for scheduling and orchestration for Zapier style tasks? e.g. user wants to have a report sent each morning. Ideally something lightweight and backed by Redis or Postgres (or better yet a managed service).

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

2 months

🚀 Athena Voice is now live! Here's how early adopters are using it: Search & Filter: Find any document in Drive (video, audio, ppt, docx) by speaking its name or keywords. Data to Sheets: Import data and prep templates for analysis, including pivot tables and charts. Jupyter

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

2 years

Flying from the Midwest to NYC: majority of the flight boards by group 8. From ATX to NYC: it’s full by roughly group 4. God forbid you fly SF to NYC you’re getting packed with the luggage after group 2.

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

1 year

Dynamic UI elements in action. Left is a typical LLM rendered response to a question... on the right we've trained the LLM to respond w/ custom UI elements that are rendered in real time. Are we calling this a JIT UI (Just-In-Time User Interface)?

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5 months

@kzSlider 🤝 thanks! we are bullish on highly interpretable agents, that seemlessly transition from headless to headful

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@BrendonGeils

10 months

@NWischoff 👋 C&B in the east village! be there 🙌

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@BrendonGeils

2 years

@amasad If you use Gmail, our team just built a Google Workspace Gmail Add-On that provides native integration out of the box so you can get it on mobile and desktop. Here is a short demo for you! We can also deploy inside company domains, shoot me a demo to try or learn more.

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

3 months

enterprise agi by the end of the year, full stop.

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

2 years

Great presentation from Professor Michael I. Jordan at @scale_AI Transform. He discussed decision making as the next frontier in AI/ML - noting counterfactuals and value of information workflows. Excited to be building this reality at Athena Intelligence!

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

2 years

transportability of data/models could be the unlocking of AI/ML for disparate usage. to date large models require “roughly” clean and semantically similar data… which operates in that distribution at inference. the future could be across domains and sparse to train and infer.

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

1 year

Co-Pilot for Data Science [AI Agent with Causal Inference Tools] Early access here:

Athena Co-Pilot for Enterprise Decision Making | Agent Workflow |...

https://www.athenaintelligence.ai/

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4 months

@chiefaioffice @MadronaVentures @jturow 👀 missing the OG @AthenaIntell

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@BrendonGeils

5 months

LLM CoPilot in Spreadsheet UI

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@BrendonGeils

2 years

incrementality (loosely related to attribution) is just a counterfactual of a past period where the the event was not taken ... i.e. the resultant state where no intervention took place

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1 year

@nathanbenaich Yes, by tying the hypotheses from GPT models to SCMs and then running an independence + refutation test. Similar to the wolfram <> chatgpt approach for scientific computing, but instead it’s backend is a validator. I have a prototype that mines high-dim + structured data 🤘🤖

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@BrendonGeils

4 months

@BenjaminDEKR AGI as a API endpoint is far from true AGI. So much left to connect that to the real world i.e. user interfaces and hardware. It reminds me of high IQ coworkers vs highly networked coworkers. The highly networked coworker is usually more valuable.

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@BrendonGeils

4 months

@adam_janis haven’t seen this workflow in our tool before, but maybe this is up your alley? DM me your email and I’ll send over access if you’re interested in trying yourself

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10 months

wow

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@BrendonGeils

5 months

@AsfiShaheen most of our usage comes from the former, but since we aren’t trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes to user interfaces, it’s not a huge leap from folks familiar with Google Workspace, Notion, Hex or ChatGPT

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1 year

@mitch_troy @trybasis @btv_vc @BoxGroup @AvidVc congrats!

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5 months

@saraduit @JacobColling 👀

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Brendon Geils

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11 months

Doctor’s orders

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

2 months

@manuuonly 4. load assets from the olympus workbench… this is native to our application, but you can load any olympus asset in the notebook to quickly start your work (excel, image, pdf, sql snippet, etc) and it writes the relevant logic to start working with that data type. these all

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

4 months

Euro prices 👌 lowest i’ve seen for flight wifi

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

11 months

OpenAI Developer Day! Absolutely electric energy.

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@BrendonGeils

3 months

Spreadsheets the way you want them to act…

AI Autofill in Athena Sheets

Athena Sheets now supports AI Autofill! Select any region, and Athena will fill in the blanks for you. Say goodbye to manual data entry and hello to increase...

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

3 months

@ashebytes preach

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@BrendonGeils

3 months

@JakeZegil what’s your recommended backend of choice?

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

1 year

ah, I remember experimental A/B testing... phew

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

1 year

@Memetic_Theory five star reply.. tips hat

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

2 years

ok hear me out: hiring pairs… you hire one seasoned vet and an equally as stellar early career prospect. Same role, equal say in decisions. Paired to bring out the best of industry knowledge and relationships with fresh eyes and typically more analytical and up with the trends.

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1 year

@princeghosh97 @kobyjconrad Here’s his FL concept, highly recommend.

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1 year

@jackmmcclelland ended up canceling whoop and levels for this exact reason

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1 year

@dwhitena Love to see it!

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Brendon Geils

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2 years

@jerryjliu0 @gpt_index we’d love a feature! we use y’all to provide businesses with the capability to leverage internal docs (Products/Service Offerings, FAQs, etc) for their email workflow

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

5 months

@knarfeel_ depending on the user and task we have a few methods that are working nicely. 1. leverage a semantic model (we use Cube) so the agent doesn’t think about tables 2. rag query snippets (both sql and python) that are vetted by the customer…. we can also generate these on initial

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

2 years

@mattshumer_ slightly adjacent but we’re doing some interesting work at Athena Intelligence - bridging causal AI and generative AI

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1 year

@Memetic_Theory relationships w/ AI are becoming more stable than relationships amongst humans... oof

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

2 years

Causal modeling is not longer an approach in my mind but the approach… at least for any system which includes a decision/action.

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1 year

not listening to all-in pod until thursday… raw dogging life… how am i suppose to form my opinions!

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5 months

@JacobColling 🤝🤝🤝

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9 months

@andruyeung Athena 👀

Athena Intelligence | AI-native analytics platform and artificial employee

Athena, the first artificial data analyst, copilot and take over laborious tasks, so analysts can focus on the strategic work.

www.athenaintelligence.ai

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1 year

Hey 👋 VCs we are are raising!

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2 months

@manuuonly you definitely need both imo for maximum throughput. i’ll record a few real world example workflows we do today…. 1. split this cell up… this never misses which is nice and helps when you want to debug a segment of code 2. convert these cells into a function… once you have

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1 year

@jsngr @figma 👋👋👋

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2 years

operational questions are causal questions. predictions are low value unless paired with causal reasoning (justification) and optimal recourse.

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4 months

@aldrinjenson @aquavoice_ very impressive! open source? 👀

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1 year

@hi_im_dev_ I’d start with reading Judea Pearl’s The Book of Why. Or check out his talks on YouTube.

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3 months

Ask Jeeves… Ask Athena 👀

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4 months

@ThawabHAlsubaie yes it can. under the hood it’s a playwright instance. that’s a traffic idea btw, hadn’t thought of that either.

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Brendon Geils

@BrendonGeils

5 months

Confirmed for Vercel Ship this Thursday! Come say hi if you're attending!

Vercel Ship

Join us on May 23rd to get a first look at new tools and powerful features centered on scale, reliability, and speed.

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5 months

@pmarca @bhorowitz @a16z — this probably scratches the itch you called out in your latest podcast — moving from copilots to agents. this is made possible by seamless headless to headful mode…

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1 year

@hi_im_dev_ search problem. Now let’s switch to “attribution” or “why” as a concept instead of “search.” Today we use direct attribution matching, X happened and measurably caused Y. The latest structural causal modeling approaches allow for fuzzy attribution.

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The more I use GPTs, both language and more so multi-modals, the more it feels like a context insertion problem, at least for the next year. Close second is better guidance. This might be better prompts via text or more likely intelligent UI guidance.

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2 years

@shaig @NWischoff @brexHQ Grade A tweet 👨‍🍳 👌

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1 year

@0interestrates we just released a version 1 of this

Generative AI Dashboards from Athena Intelligence

Using LLMs and a structured data stores to generate a dashboard.

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4 months

@tldraw @erbanku here for it!!

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2 years

@Memetic_Theory it’s equivalent to SQL eng. LLM is a db which you need to query intelligently

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2 years

More and more convinced Berkeley professor, Michael I. Jordan, hit it on the head when he described ML as insane pattern matching. Noting our next frontier is decision making which requires causal inference.

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5 months

@AsfiShaheen and thank you!

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3 months

@leonho @gumloop_ai @dify_ai 👀

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1 year

95% of my GPT use cases now are perception and reasoning, not generating text. Some exciting updates next week about using GPTs for knowledge discovery workflows!

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2 years

@MoFromYYZ workout, family dinner, miami. in no particular order

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