Deep Thought

Intelligence - July 14, 2023

8 Struggles of Being a Highly Intelligent Person

Intelligent people are gifted at analyzing concepts and building upon them to form a better understanding of the world and those around them, how everything is connected, and why things are the way they are. A Highly Intelligent Person often has remarkably high IQs, academic achievements, and go on to become successful leaders and trailblazers in their fields. However, they are faced with certain problems and challenges that only they can relate to. Having said that, here are 8 struggles only highly intelligent people will understand.

Read more

AI, AI Models, ai tools - July 12, 2023

Microsoft’s Automatic Prompt Optimization Improves Prompts to Boost LLM Performance

The recent rise of powerful large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP). The performance of these generative models is largely dependent on users’ prompts, which are becoming increasingly detailed and complex. A Google Trends search reveals a hundredfold increase in popularity for the term “prompt engineering” over the last six months, and social media is teeming with novel prompting tips and templates. Is trial-and-error really the best approach, or could there be a more efficient way to develop effective prompts? In the new paper Automatic Prompt Optimization with “Gradient Descent” and Beam Search, a Microsoft...

Read more

AI, Deep Thought - July 03, 2023

How to teach AI to imitate human thought and action

Artificial intelligence systems can mimic some aspects of human intelligence with impressive results, including detecting objects, navigating environments, playing chess, or even generating text. But cloning human behavior has its limitations. Without backing actions with thought, AI systems can become brittle and make unpredictable mistakes when faced with novel situations. One recent project by scientists at the University of British Columbia and Vector Institute shows the benefits of getting AI systems to think like humans. They propose a technique called “Thought Cloning,” which trains the AI on thoughts and actions at the same time. Thought cloning can enable deep learning models to...

Read more

Synthetic Intelligence - July 03, 2023

How to get ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Get information ready for search, put key prerequisites in place, and assign licenses to prepare for the next transformation in how we work with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Copilot leverages large language models that interact with your organization's data using the Microsoft Graph to generate personalized experiences with related context, reducing the steps to find the information you need and generate content. By design, Copilot respects user-specific permissions to any content or information it retrieves, and only generates responses based on information that users explicitly have permission to access. Join Jeremy Chapman, Director of Microsoft 365, as he shares admin steps to get started, by: 1. Getting your organization's information ready for search - with Just Enough Access permissions in place. This is a best practice, whether you plan to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot or not. 2. Putting Microsoft 365 Copilot prerequisites in place. This includes the having the right Microsoft cloud apps and services running for each user with access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, and 3. Assigning Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing to users and groups to provide them access. And finally, with everything prepared and ready, it's important to have a plan in place to drive user adoption and optimize results by creating a center of excellence - as you would with other app and service - rollout to let people share easily share what's working best for them and find help from internal champions. ► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Introduction 01:48 - Step One: Get information ready to search 03:00 - Just Enough Access 03:34 - Tools to find info at risk for oversharing 04:54 - Step Two: Get prerequisites in place 06:00 - Step Three: Assign M365 Copilot licenses 07:20 - Establish a Center of Excellence 07:55 - Wrap up ► Link References: Prerequisites for Microsoft 365 Copilot and supported apps at https://aka.ms/M365CopilotPreReqs Hands-on support with Microsoft FastTrack services at https://fasttrack.microsoft.com ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. • Subscribe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftMechanicsSeries • Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/bg-p/MicrosoftMechanicsBlog • Watch or listen from anywhere, subscribe to our podcast: https://microsoftmechanics.libsyn.com/podcast ► Keep getting this insider knowledge, join us on social: • Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSFTMechanics • Share knowledge on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft-mechanics/ • Enjoy us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msftmechanics/ • Loosen up with us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@msftmechanics #Copilot #LLM #Microsoft365 #InfoSecurity

Read more

Synthetic Intelligence - June 28, 2023