Rowan Curran

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RAG Is All The Rage — And The Machine Is Getting More Complex

Rowan Curran July 23, 2024
Sophisticated enterprise knowledge applications require advanced RAG architectures. Use these three concepts to build smarter RAG apps.
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RAG Is All The Rage — Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Demystified

Rowan Curran July 23, 2024
Enterprises experimenting with generative AI (genAI) are prioritizing use cases that enable internal and external users to better retrieve information they need, be it data, how-to pages, corporate policies, or return policies. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is now the most common underlying approach for building this type of large language model (LLM)-based enterprise knowledge-retrieval application. What […]
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Announcing Our Inaugural AI Foundation Models For Language Forrester Wave™ — 21 Criteria To Consider, Beyond Benchmarks

Mike Gualtieri June 5, 2024
In our inaugural evaluation, The Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models For Language, Q2 2024, we break down large language model (LLM) model offering, strategy, and market presence across 21 criteria for 10 providers. Get a preview of the report including four things you should be looking for in a model here.
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Generative AI Will Not Fulfill Your Autonomous SOC Hopes (Or Even Your Demo Dreams)

Allie Mellen April 22, 2024
It’s easy to trust generative AI implementations because of how human they feel. But when it comes to security, there are still some fundamental challenges to overcome with genAI. Learn more about those challenges in this post.
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Build Your GenAI Strategy On A Rock-Solid Foundation (Model)

Rowan Curran April 16, 2024
The market for AI foundation models is still in its infancy. While enterprises still rely mostly on pretrained large language models for AI needs, the market is evolving and changing quickly. Tech leaders must understand how to navigate it.
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It Ain’t Just AI: What We Saw At Google Cloud Next

Lee Sustar April 16, 2024
Google recently held its Google Cloud Next conference four months early to unveil new AI offerings and upstage its rivals. Get a detailed review of all of the announcements at the event in this post.
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GenAI For Tech Leaders: Q&A

Rowan Curran February 21, 2024
Recently, I had the honor of presenting Forrester’s predictions for 2024 to over a thousand tech and business leaders. There were, unsurprisingly, a ton of questions about generative AI. I’d like to answer some of the more technical questions that we received.
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Tap Into The Potential Of Synthetic Data For AIOps

Carlos Casanova January 19, 2024
Learn how leveraging synthetic data can help with the critical time to realize AIOps value, such as autoremediation capabilities and enhanced decision-making.
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Orbiting Back On A Year Of Generative AI As We Slingshot Ourselves Into The Future

Rowan Curran November 29, 2023
A year after the release of ChatGPT, we take a look back at where it all started, where things stand today, and where we can expect generative AI to go in 2024 and beyond.
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Google I/O 2023: As Far As The AI Can See

Rowan Curran May 18, 2023
AI was center stage at Google I/O 2023 and much of it was generative AI (GenAI). Get a detailed analysis of the event including why enterprises need to focus on the launch of PaLM 2 and Vertex AI.
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The White House Puts Its Money Where Its Generative AI Is — Enterprises Need To Act Now

Michele Goetz May 9, 2023
As regulators, courts, and even the White House scrutinize generative AI ethics, learn five things your AI governance programs should be addressing today.
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Can Synthetic Data Help Deliver On The Promise Of AIOps?

Carlos Casanova May 9, 2023
Tools leveraging ML models in dynamic environments must be continuously fed new data in order to adapt to changing conditions and goals. They need to learn as much as possible about their new environments before being fully able and safe to provide service and ultimately deliver value. Synthetic data can help address these and other AI/ML challenges.
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Knowledge Management, I’d Like To Introduce My New Friend, Generative AI

Julie Mohr May 2, 2023
The promise of AI in knowledge management has lingered on the fringes for years — the application of AI was just outside of possible and not quite ready for prime time. And then into the room walked our new friend, generative AI. It has turned the knowledge management world upside down.
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Are LLMs Poised To Be A Great Business Intelligence Equalizer? Not Yet.

Boris Evelson April 20, 2023
Despite all the talk about generative AI, one largely ignored area where generative AI will have a disruptive impact is enterprise analytics, specifically business intelligence. Learn six areas where vendor capabilities are emerging.
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Let’s Chat About ChatGPT And CX

Colleen Fazio April 11, 2023
Explore these emerging use cases where generative AI might help — but not replace — customer experience professionals.
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Q&A: Two Core Questions To Understanding ChatGPT

Guannan Lu March 10, 2023
There may be a revolution coming on the heels of generative AI — but tech leaders should maintain a realistic perspective and understand its potential and limitations.
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ChatGPT: Cybersecurity Ramifications Beyond Malware

Jeff Pollard January 26, 2023
Plenty of people had fun with ChatGPT when it released, but I’m not sure any industry had more fun than cybersecurity. When first released, it turned out that ChatGPT could write code, convert code from one programming language to another, and write malware. Sure, the coherent nonsense problem persisted, but overall, it produced solid stuff. […]
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Beware Of “Coherent Nonsense” When Implementing Generative AI

Rowan Curran December 8, 2022
Generative AI can make doing a lot of things easier, including the wrong things. Learn the risks of AI-generated content and how to avoid them.
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Predictions 2023: AI Will Become An Indispensable, Trusted Enterprise Coworker

Rowan Curran October 27, 2022

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Presentations Are About To Get Swamped In AI-Generated Images

Rowan Curran September 23, 2022
Tools such as DALL-E Mini and Stable Diffusion are proving immensely useful for generating visual content. But there are some limitations.
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