Understanding AI — Large Language Models
A plain-English guide to large language models: what they are, who makes them, and the terminology you actually need to know as a business operator.
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The $174K Nobody’s Looking For: How Manual Processes Are Quietly Eating Your Payroll
Your 40-person firm is burning $174K a year on manual processes nobody tracks. Here's the math, why nobody does it, and what a realistic recovery...
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Why Process Beats Raw Capability: What Andrew Ng’s Agentic Workflows Mean for Your Operations
GPT-3.5 in an agentic loop scored 95.1% on coding benchmarks. GPT-4 zero-shot scored 67%. The cheaper model with a better process won. Here's what that...
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What the BCG AI Study Actually Means for a Services Firm
758 consultants. 25% faster. 40% higher quality. 43% boost for the weakest performers. Everyone focused on the productivity headline. An operator sees something different in...
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The SaaS Tax: How Enterprise Software Became Your Most Expensive Employee
SaaS prices went up 11.4% last year. Your revenue almost certainly did not keep pace. And the vendors raising those prices are calling it “growth.”...
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