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Are you ready to take your retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications to the next level? We've got some game-changing news for you! 🚀 In the latest blog post, the team behind Azure Cognitive Search shares data to prove that hybrid retrieval + semantic ranking is the gold standard for improved relevance out-of-the-box. Whether you're developing Generative AI or general search applications, this approach is a game-changer! 📈 Check out the full blog post for in-depth insights and recommendations. Let's make your search smarter and more powerful! 💪 https://lnkd.in/g4sS77Qi Pablo Castro Dan Quirk Alec Berntson Liam Cavanagh Farzad Sunavala Ben Tezcan Jessica Hawk David Seda Olivia Shone Richard L. Tso Allison Sparrow Viviane M. Nguyen Shilpa DabkeJulianne Hart Malena Lopez-Sotelo

Join me for a 30min chat on Tuesday to discuss Visual Prompting. Text prompting has revolutionized NLP: Traditional AI: Label -> Train -> Predict Prompt based AI: Prompt -> Predict I’ll share early thoughts on taking these ideas from text to computer vision with Visual Prompting. Please RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/dBfufaT9

Yann LeCun and I have thought a lot about the proposed 6 month AI pause, and plan to chat about it on Friday - the questions it raises for AI and its impact on developers and companies. Please join Yann and me for the conversation! RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gx5mTbEE

Dear Connections, I have unfortunately been impacted by recent layoffs at #Microsoft. About 22+ incredible years at #Microsoft spanning different roles has been an amazing journey. Working alongside such amazing colleagues, I'm grateful for the unique and priceless experiences I've had. Obviously saddened at leaving, but I'm excited to explore new opportunities and see what the future holds. If you or anyone you know is looking for someone with my skills and experience, please reach out to me. Ideally my next move will be an Analytics or Database Engineer/Solution Architect role in the Analytics/Data space, guidelines and best practices, collecting business requirements, plan, build, test, implement and support business solutions built with Azure Analytics and Database services(Mordern DataWarehouse using Synapse, Databricks, ADLS, ADF, Purview, SQL Servers, Power BI, with required DevOps knowledge). Not to mention the general Azure platform expertise and exposure to a few other areas within Infra and App Dev. Thank you for being a part of my network and for your continued support.. #OpenToWork

The call for a 6 month moratorium on making AI progress beyond GPT-4 is a terrible idea. I'm seeing many new applications in education, healthcare, food, ... that'll help many people. Improving GPT-4 will help. Lets balance the huge value AI is creating vs. realistic risks. There is no realistic way to implement a moratorium and stop all teams from scaling up LLMs, unless governments step in. Having governments pause emerging technologies they don’t understand is anti-competitive, sets a terrible precedent, and is awful innovation policy. Responsible AI is important, and AI has risks. The popular press narrative that AI companies are running amok shipping unsafe code is not true. The vast majority (sadly, not all) of AI teams take responsible AI and safety seriously. Let's invest more in safety while we advance the technology, rather than stifle progress. A 6 month moratorium is not a practical proposal. To advance AI safety, regulations around transparency and auditing would be more practical and make a bigger difference.