Tag: Machine Learning

A few months ago I came across something that really caught my attention: the possibility of having my own “ChatGPT” running at home, without sending data anywhere, using only a Raspberry Pi 5. Sounds too good to be true, right?

Well, it turns out that with Ollama and a Pi 5 it’s perfectly possible to set up a local AI server that works surprisingly well. Let me tell you my experience and how you can do it too.

Amazon has taken an important step in the world of artificial intelligence with the launch of S3 Vectors, the first cloud storage service with native support for large-scale vectors. This innovation promises to reduce costs by up to 90% for uploading, storing, and querying vector data.

What are vectors and why do we care?

Vectors are numerical representations of unstructured data (text, images, audio, video) generated by embedding models. They are the foundation of generative AI applications that need to find similarities between data using distance metrics.

After many years working with systems of all kinds, I’ve seen how information retrieval has evolved from simple databases to today’s sophisticated systems. But what Baidu researchers have just proposed has particularly caught my attention, and I believe it marks a before and after in how we think about intelligent information retrieval.

The problem we all know (but don’t always admit)

If you’ve worked with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems, you know they work quite well for direct questions. But when you face queries that require multiple reasoning steps, comparing information from multiple sources, or handling contradictory data… that’s where it gets complicated. And a lot.

In these last few days, we’ve had many news items, articles, information in the development and technology world, these are the most relevant for me:

• Google announces a new Machine Learning service in the cloud

• NPM & left-pad: Have We Forgotten How To Program?: The Kik case - left-pad from NPM and the critical fall to “I’ll do this with a third-party module/plugin/package/class”

• The Kik case - left-pad from NPM and the fall in (official) or how the most insignificant dependencies can really leave us stranded.