Here’s a link to a good 10000 foot overview of AI, courtesy of IBM:

What is AI?

The goal of my Artificial Intelligence “work,” such as it is, will be around discerning what AI related tools are out there, what works for *me* and what might work for *you* (whoever might read this page).  As a seasoned IT executive I want AI tools that will help me be productive, build my skills, and not destroy the planet through some dystopian SkyNet.  I don’t want my AI tools to do my work for me, I want my AI tools to help me do my work.

Less effort will be spent on image and video related AI features and programs.

What is out there and of interest to me – let’s begin with major players  / frontier models:

Google – Gemini

OpenAI – ChatGPT

Microsoft – CoPilot (uses ChatGPT)

Anthropic – Claude

X (Twitter) – Grok

Mistral

Perplexity

Open Source:

Meta – Llama

Kimi

Qwen

Deepseek

Tech to track:

Model Context Protocol from Anthrop\c Claude:

https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol

“Today, we’re open-sourcing the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, including content repositories, business tools, and development environments. Its aim is to help frontier models produce better, more relevant responses.”

Terminology

• AI Benchmarks – “Aider Polyglot benchmark“

Aider’s polyglot benchmark tests LLMs on 225 challenging Exercism coding exercises across C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Rust. Aider polyglot coding …

• AI Hallucination – courtesy of eWeek dated 8-23-2024  https://www.eweek.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-hallucinations/

This is a good overview of AI Hallucinations, different types of AI pitfalls, and so on.

• AI Slop, or Slop

“AI slop”, often simply “slop”, is a term for low-quality media, including writing and images, made using generative artificial intelligence technology, characterized by an inherent lack of effort, being generated at an overwhelming volume. Coined in the 2020s, the term has a pejorative connotation similar to “spam”.

Source: Wikipedia