Brad Nikkel

AI Content Fellow

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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Listening to Forests with Machine Learning & Algorithms
AI & Engineering
Listening to Forests with Machine Learning & Algorithms
Brad Nikkel

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

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

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

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

Brad Nikkel

Oct 2, 2023

How Do Language Models Handle Obscure Words?
AI & Engineering
How Do Language Models Handle Obscure Words?
Brad Nikkel

Brad Nikkel

Sep 8, 2023

API-Bank: Benchmarking Language Models’ Tool Use
AI & Engineering
API-Bank: Benchmarking Language Models’ Tool Use
Brad Nikkel

Brad Nikkel

Aug 28, 2023

MMLU: Better Benchmarking for LLM Language Understanding
AI & Engineering
MMLU: Better Benchmarking for LLM Language Understanding
Brad Nikkel

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

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

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

Brad Nikkel

Aug 18, 2023

The ARC Benchmark: Evaluating LLMs' Reasoning Abilities
AI & Engineering
The ARC Benchmark: Evaluating LLMs' Reasoning Abilities
Brad Nikkel

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

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

Brad Nikkel

Jul 17, 2023

Can LLMs Grok the Human Mind?
AI & Engineering
Can LLMs Grok the Human Mind?
Brad Nikkel

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

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

Brad Nikkel

Feb 27, 2023

Beyond AI's Boom-Bust Cycle
AI & Engineering
Beyond AI's Boom-Bust Cycle
Brad Nikkel

Brad Nikkel

Feb 13, 2023

AI Still Feels Artificial. What Are We Missing?
AI & Engineering
AI Still Feels Artificial. What Are We Missing?
Brad Nikkel

Brad Nikkel

Jan 31, 2023

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