Brad Nikkel

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Brad is a former Green Beret who recently studied symbolic systems at Stanford, concentrating in artificial intelligence. He enjoys meaningfully wandering (hiking) outdoors, exploring our planet, and checking out museums.

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Multimodal Graph-of-Thoughts: How Text, Images, and Graphs Lead to Better Reasoning

AI & Engineering

Multimodal Graph-of-Thoughts: How Text, Images, and Graphs Lead to Better Reasoning

Brad Nikkel

Apr 25, 2024

Environment-Aware TTS Just Sounds Better: The Key to Natural-Sounding AI

AI & Engineering

Environment-Aware TTS Just Sounds Better: The Key to Natural-Sounding AI

Brad Nikkel

Feb 26, 2024

Listening to Forests with Machine Learning & Algorithms

AI & Engineering

Listening to Forests with Machine Learning & Algorithms

Brad Nikkel

Jan 26, 2024

How the AI Business World Actually Works: A Startup’s War

AI & Engineering

How the AI Business World Actually Works: A Startup’s War

Brad Nikkel

Dec 1, 2023

RAG vs. Finetuning: Enhancing LLMs with new knowledge

AI & Engineering

RAG vs. Finetuning: Enhancing LLMs with new knowledge

Brad Nikkel

Oct 31, 2023

Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques: Tree-of-Thoughts Prompting

AI & Engineering

Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques: Tree-of-Thoughts Prompting

Brad Nikkel

Oct 12, 2023

Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Helping LLMs Learn by Example

AI & Engineering

Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Helping LLMs Learn by Example

Brad Nikkel

Oct 2, 2023

How Do Language Models Handle Obscure Words?

AI & Engineering

How Do Language Models Handle Obscure Words?

Brad Nikkel

Sep 8, 2023

API-Bank: Benchmarking Language Models’ Tool Use

AI & Engineering

API-Bank: Benchmarking Language Models’ Tool Use

Brad Nikkel

Aug 28, 2023

MMLU: Better Benchmarking for LLM Language Understanding

AI & Engineering

MMLU: Better Benchmarking for LLM Language Understanding

Brad Nikkel

Aug 22, 2023

Parsing Fact From Fiction: Benchmarking LLM Accuracy With TruthfulQA

AI & Engineering

Parsing Fact From Fiction: Benchmarking LLM Accuracy With TruthfulQA

Brad Nikkel

Aug 22, 2023

HellaSwag: Understanding the LLM Benchmark for Commonsense Reasoning

AI & Engineering

HellaSwag: Understanding the LLM Benchmark for Commonsense Reasoning

Brad Nikkel

Aug 21, 2023

Human vs. Machine: A Comparative Study on Creativity in the Age of AI

AI & Engineering

Human vs. Machine: A Comparative Study on Creativity in the Age of AI

Brad Nikkel

Aug 18, 2023

The ARC Benchmark: Evaluating LLMs' Reasoning Abilities

AI & Engineering

The ARC Benchmark: Evaluating LLMs' Reasoning Abilities

Brad Nikkel

Aug 15, 2023

LLM Agents: When Large Language Models Do Stuff For You

AI & Engineering

LLM Agents: When Large Language Models Do Stuff For You

Brad Nikkel

Aug 8, 2023

Top 5 Youtubers That Will Teach You LangChain

AI & Engineering

Top 5 Youtubers That Will Teach You LangChain

Brad Nikkel

Jul 17, 2023

Can LLMs Grok the Human Mind?

AI & Engineering

Can LLMs Grok the Human Mind?

Brad Nikkel

Jun 26, 2023

How Adversarial Examples Build Resilient Machine Learning Models

AI & Engineering

How Adversarial Examples Build Resilient Machine Learning Models

Brad Nikkel

Mar 30, 2023

From Clicks to Code: Using Deep Learning and Bioacoustics to Study Orca Whales

AI & Engineering

From Clicks to Code: Using Deep Learning and Bioacoustics to Study Orca Whales

Brad Nikkel

Feb 27, 2023

Beyond AI's Boom-Bust Cycle

AI & Engineering

Beyond AI's Boom-Bust Cycle

Brad Nikkel

Feb 13, 2023

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