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I had a great time speaking about some of our recent AI projects at MorelandConnect and Graph RAG to a great audience at the first Cleveland AI meetup of the year at Cleveland State University Monday night! I will have a more detailed post coming soon about knowledge graphs in RAG, but in the meantime here is a link to my slides from my talk: https://lnkd.in/gQrcfEr7 There was also two great talks by Brendan Mulcahy speaking about AI bots in Fortnite and Kushagra Soni also speaking about Knowledge Graphs and GenAI solutions. Thanks to Ted Troxell and William Tatz for organizing such a great event and carrying Doug Meil's legacy of the Big Data Meetup. Events like this are why we have one of country's largest and most active AI Meetup Groups here in Cleveland! You can really tell the audience was engaged by the massive crowd that formed for questions after the talk, which was rewarding for me to connect with everyone! The attendance at this event and the growing AI community in Cleveland confirms what I already know - Cleveland and the Midwest are hungry for generative AI solutions. Whether you're looking to integrate AI into your existing systems, build custom software solutions, or just explore how technology can transform your business, reach out. I'd love to connect and discuss how MorelandConnect can help your business!

Nice educational session on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures by our very own Caden Kacmarynski

I know this is late, but I’ve been busy. :) It was a pleasure speaking at the COSE BIG Summit event about how Generative AI is transforming businesses today and what to expect from Artificial General Intelligence in the future. Thank you Megan Kim for the opportunity and Caroline Guscott for the shout out. Multiple people mentioned how excited they were to incorporate ideas they were learning back into their own businesses. I did have the opportunity to hear Tim Marshall talk about Marketing AI Starter Kit for the Small Biz and Amy Martin talk about Building a Technology Mindset and Tech Stack for the Future.?Fantastic presentations with actionable insights. Inspiring stories were also told by Mike and Bill Malley of Malley's Chocolates , Pat Conway of Great Lakes Brewing Company, Scott Mueller of Dealer Tire , Trina Bediako of New Horizons Baking Company and Maria Bennett of SPR Therapeutics, Inc. ?Great stories about innovation and culture powered by people that enabled them to grow. I enjoyed speaking about real world transformations happening across industries powered by AI.? Some of these examples included: In Software: Amazon migrated 30,000 product applications from Java 8 or 11 to Java 17 using AI tools. The results: Saved over 4,500 years of development work and $260 million in annual cost savings from performance improvements In Healthcare: Aidoc uses an AI-powered platform designed to analyze radiological images in real-time and flag urgent cases. Result: Improved detection rate for critical conditions by 96%, and hospitals reported a 60% reduction in turnaround time for life-threatening diagnoses Alphafold is a deep learning model for protein structure prediction, developed by research group at Google’s DeepMind. Result:?Projected to reduce the 12-15 year drug development time by half. In Manufacturing: Adidas has adopted generative AI in its "Speedfactory" initiative, where AI-powered robots automate the design and manufacturing of custom shoes Result: Adidas reduced product development time by 50% In Construction: Bentley uses digital twins technology for Construction firms. Result:?Construction firms using Bentley’s digital twins reported a 30% reduction in project delays by identifying potential bottlenecks and optimizing workflows In Retail: The North Face uses Generative AI to recommend products Result: 60% increase in engagement and a 75% higher likelihood of customers purchasing products recommended by the AI assistant compared to other methods. In Media: The Washington Post developed "Heliograf," a generative AI system used to write short news stories. Result: AI-driven content also helped increase audience engagement, resulting in a 500% increase in output for certain types of coverage, without expanding the newsroom staff. Exciting to think about what comes next as all the Frontier LLM companies work toward Artificial General Intelligence, which Generative AI is just a stepping stone on the path to.

In celebration of #OhioTechDay, MorelandConnect in collaboration with Case Western Reserve University Quantum Computing Club, Entrepreneurs Club and The App Innovators and Developers Club are organizing an AI Hackathon Oct 12-13th. The MorelandConnect sponsored AI Hackathon is a two-day intensive event designed to engage undergraduate students in cutting-edge AI research and entrepreneurship. This hackathon aims to bridge the gap between academic learning and real-world application of AI technologies, with a focus on conversational AI and prompt engineering. By partnering with student clubs at Case Western, we seek to foster innovation, teamwork, and problem-solving skills while providing students with hands-on experience in AI development and business application. Sign-up link and more details coming soon.