AI

  • Exploring Generative AI: Alex’s Talk at the Shropshire Digital Summit

    Exploring Generative AI: Alex's Talk at the Shropshire Digital Summit

    This week, Alex had the exciting opportunity to present at the Shropshire Digital Summit, held at Shrewsbury Football Club. With a full house of eager participants, Alex’s session focused on one of the most transformative topics in technology today: generative AI platforms. During the presentation, Alex provided an insightful overview of various generative AI tools, highlighting their growing capabilities and real-world applications. The…

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  • Hollie Speaks on AI Panel at Connections for Prosperity Conference

    Hollie Speaks on AI Panel at Connections for Prosperity Conference

      Hollie participated as an AI panellist at the Connections for Prosperity Conference (#CFP24), held on the 18th of September at Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham. The panel which Hollie hosted, which took place at 14:10, focused on the role artificial intelligence could play in the development and growth of the West Midlands. During the discussion, Hollie and fellow experts shared insights on how AI can drive regional innovation, boost…

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  • AI Applications in The Manufacturing Sector

    AI Applications in The Manufacturing Sector

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionising industries across the globe, and the manufacturing sector is no exception. By leveraging AI, manufacturers can enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve product quality. Let us explore some of the key applications of AI in manufacturing. Predictive maintenance One of the most significant applications of AI in manufacturing is predictive maintenance. By analysing data from sensors and machines,…

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  • FabFest: Why I Decided to be an Organiser

    FabFest: why I decided to be an organiser

    Hopefully, you have seen that Joe Billingham, and I have organised a one-day event in Birmingham called FabFest. It will be on the 3rd of October at Millenium Point in Birmingham and will feature a full day of exciting talks on Fabric and AI. It’s looking to be a great day and tickets are going fast so sign up here if you haven’t already. Why did we want to organise FabFest? Before Joe and I produced the idea to go ahead and organise…

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  • Unlocking the Power of AI in the Retail Sector

    Unlocking the Power of AI in the Retail Sector

    In today’s fast-paced retail environment, businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to stay ahead of the competition. One of the most transformative technologies in recent years has been Artificial Intelligence (AI). By leveraging AI, retailers can gain valuable insights into their operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive sales growth. In this blog, we’ll explore two key AI use cases in the retail sector: sales…

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  • Getting To Grips With Copilot Chatbots

    Chatbots are becoming an essential part of many businesses and organizations, as they can provide instant and personalized responses to customers and employees, reduce costs and workload, and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. However, creating a chatbot that can handle complex and natural conversations is not an easy task. It requires a lot of data, skills, and resources to design, develop, and deploy a chatbot that can meet the…

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  • Our Microsoft AI and ML Predictions for 2024

    As we step into 2024, Microsoft’s commitment to advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is evident through its diverse range of offerings. The tech giant continues to push the boundaries of innovation, providing businesses with powerful tools to transform data into intelligent insights. In this blog, we’ll explore Microsoft’s current AI and ML landscape and peek into the possibilities that will…

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  • AI – Will robot overlords take over the world

    Everyone assumes that AI is the Hollywood version with robot overlords taking over the world. In reality, AI is already here and we are using it in society. Phone apps such as Uber using an AI to figure out the closest car to your destination, Netflix suggesting films for you to watch based on your history, Amazon prompting ‘customers also bought’ options on checkout, digital assistants like Alexa and Siri all of which are helping to…

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  • What is Microsoft Fabric? (Power BI + Synapse + DW + DataLake + ML)

    What Is Microsoft Fabric

    At today’s Build conference, Microsoft announced Fabric. What is this? In simple terms, think of taking Synapse Analytics, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Data Factory, Spark Notebooks and Machine Learning, and bring them all together into Power BI. This is underpinned by Microsoft OneLake, a high performance scalable data lake storage layer, supporting all of the above. OneLake is, as the name implies, one data lake that can be used across…

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  • Part 4: Natural Language Processing – Bringing it all together!

    Here’s the final post in this blog series on natural language processing where we are going to bring everything together and web scrape Trust Pilot for review data, which we will then perform Natural Language Processing on and then display in a Power Bi dashboard. I’ll be talking exclusively practically in this demo, so for a refresher on the theory please refer back to my earlier blogposts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). To re-iterate the goal…

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