Apple Intelligence & Advanced RAG

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science

Daniel & Chris engage in an impromptu discussion of the state of AI in the enterprise. Then they dive into the recent Apple Intelligence announcement to explore its implications. Finally, Daniel leads a deep dive into a new topic - Advanced RAG - covering everything you need to know to be practical & productive.

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Featuring:

• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Apple Intelligence
• Introducing Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that puts powerful generative models at the core of iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• The top AI features Apple announced at WWDC 2024
• Hybrid Search: Combining BM25 and Semantic Search for Better Results with Langchain
• Advanced RAG: Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval with HyDE

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Chapters

1. Welcome to Practical AI (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Neo4j (00:00:44)

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3. Staying fully connected (00:02:06)

4. Our past predictions (00:02:54)

5. Reality of adopting AI (00:03:59)

6. Shifting roles (00:06:14)

7. Realizing usability (00:09:12)

8. Full stack AI development (00:11:39)

9. Sponsor: Plumb (00:13:27)

https://useplumb.com/

10. Apple Intellegence (00:15:06)

11. Closed model concerns (00:20:01)

12. Balancing privacy & performance (00:24:09)

13. Sponsor: Backblaze (00:29:09)

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/personal/landing/podcast/practicalai

14. RAG pipelines (00:31:14)

15. How to improve your RAG (00:36:14)

16. Hybrid search (00:40:00)

17. Re-ranking (00:41:44)

18. It's been fun! (00:43:57)

19. Outro (00:44:19)