AI Literacy: A New Legal Requirement Under the EU AI Act – Are You Ready?

The EU AI Act is the world’s first comprehensive law governing AI, setting a precedent for how organizations across industries must handle AI responsibly.  Among its many provisions, a crucial but often overlooked requirement is AI literacy—a mandate that ensures employees working with AI have the necessary skills and understanding to assess AI risks and opportunities effectively.

From BPR to AI: Embracing a Pragmatic Journey of Transformation

In today's fast-paced business landscape, AI adoption is emerging as a transformative strategy that mirrors the revolutionary approaches of the past. Much like the 1990s Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) and the 2000s Kanban and Lean methodologies, integrating AI into your operations is about optimizing processes, enhancing decision-making and securing a competitive edge.  However, the journey to successful AI implementation is neither instantaneous nor magical.

Learning from the Past: A Legacy of Transformation

Elon Musk and OpenAI: Analyzing a Potential Reunion's Impact on AI

The AI industry found itself at another potential inflection point with Elon Musk's expressed interest in acquiring OpenAI, the company he co-founded in 2015 before departing in 2018.  This development is particularly noteworthy given the complex history between Musk and OpenAI, as well as the current state of the AI industry.

DeepSeek's Efficient AI Breakthrough

DeepSeek has made waves by delivering high-performing AI models with significantly lower resource requirements than industry giants like OpenAI and Anthropic.  Here's how they've done it:

Resource Efficiency at Its Best

• Innovative Architecture: Using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) and FP8 precision, DeepSeek optimizes hardware use, making training more efficient

Optimizing Your AI Prompts using AI

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, AI isn't just a tool for generating content - it can also help you fine-tune your prompts themselves for better results.  By using AI to analyze and refine your queries, you will recieve clearer, more creative and targeted responses.  If you're counting tokens, it will also save on usage costs.

So try asking your AI system of choice:

"Please optimise the following prompt and add placeholders for any additional information I might need to provide:  

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Please write me a process to deploy nginx as a docker image to act as a reverse proxy for a web server

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Different AI systems will definitely yield varying results, so try posting this on a few.  This helps in so many ways to organise your thoughts and information gathering, its a real time saver, especially when you run the resultant prompt!  

We've almost stopped using search engines in favour of well written prompts.  Integrating AI into your prompt-writing process is a smart way to save even more time fault finding and prompt refining...

Happy optimizing!

ps: Please pardon my manners when writing prompts, you really don't need to do that, but do read our other blog posts about prompt manners!