With «A practical guide to building agents» OpenAI provides us with an interesting weekend lecture. Let me focus on just one aspect: Guardrails. Their paper shows a fairly simple architecture of agents working together, but their approach to controlling risk is quite sophisticated. While they propose a single agent that validates output (preventing output that could damage the integrity of your...
Swiss AI sovereignty – market opportunity or really complicated?
The AI systems we are about to deploy are not only produced in the US or China, but in most cases also using a cloud scenario where the second endpoint is neither in Switzerland nor under our control. Since hosting models locally with tools like Ollama, GPT4All or OpenLLM locally is an quite an easy fix, let’s talk about the elephant in the room: Building and tuning models under your control. To...
The end of SEO and SEA as we know
Most companies have their playbook with a successful mix of owned, earned and paid media. You can safely dispose of it, because – as the traffic tells us – your prospects are changing the way they search. People start their online journey using an AI tool Google is pushing AI answers The new kids on the block We all know the beauty of generative AI and it’s ability to answer questions in plain...
Der Online-Shop sieht keinen Kunden mehr: AI-Shopping
An einer Tagung des Handelsverband spreche ich zu: AI Shopping – the Age of Agents. Online-Shops sehen keine Kunden mehr, können diese nicht beraten und steuern keinen Check-out. Die harmlose Version davon ist die Fähigkeit von KI-Agenten — beispielsweise OpenAI Operator — in meinem Auftrag einzukaufen. Knackiger ist aber Perplexity’s «Buy with Pro», der nicht mal ein Agent...