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Disruptive Rocket Fuel:
The Horatius Cash Flow Optimizer (CFO) Improves the predictability of cash flow in your business with near real-time visibility into your sales, expenses, and cash
AI assisted, interactive forecasts enable business owners and finance teams to rapidly explore the cash implications of different sales and expense scenarios.
Why Horatius CFO?
Accounting software like QuickBooks tells you where you are and where you’ve been; businesses need to know where they’re going to ensure that they have the cash to get there.
Who is Horatius CFO For?
Business owners or finance teams who want to make more money.
Sells products and/or services
Uses QuickBooks
Contact cfo@horatiusgroup.com to start making more money.
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AI has the power to propel middle market companies to positions of market leadership faster, and with a deeper competitive moat, than any other technology. However, success requires that firms adopt and integrate automated, self-learning technology faster than larger firms who are creating custom software with expensive, full-time data scientists.
Large Language Models and Generative AI
Language models are revolutionizing the way we interact with computers and are becoming increasingly integral in various applications, from virtual assistants to chatbots to content generation. Among the most prominent advancements in recent years are large language models (LLMs), from vendors like OpenAI, IBM, Amazon, and Google.
However, it is crucial to recognize that the field of LLMs is dynamic and rapidly evolving. Therefore, evaluating multiple LLMs is of paramount importance to maximize value, ensure optimal performance, unbiased outputs, and to foster continued progress in natural language processing. Furthermore, unlike traditional software projects that evaluate a set of options once at the start of the project and then commit to one vendor, the most successful teams automate a process to evaluate alternative LLMs on a continuous basis.
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One primary reason to evaluate multiple LLMs is to encompass diverse perspectives and ensure fair representation. Language models are trained on vast amounts of data, which can inadvertently introduce biases. By assessing multiple models, we can identify discrepancies in their responses, catch potential biases, and work towards addressing them. Evaluating different LLMs allows us to gauge their ability to handle various topics, contexts, and cultural nuances, leading to more comprehensive and inclusive applications.
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Each LLM has unique strengths and limitations. Evaluating multiple models allows us to compare their performance, accuracy, and value across different tasks, domains, and datasets. By assessing their output quality, we can identify variations in language comprehension, reasoning abilities, generalization capabilities, and ability to customize the model with specific data without having to train a very expensive LLM model from scratch.
Comprehensive evaluation enables us to select the most suitable LLM for specific use cases, ensuring optimal results and user satisfaction.
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The continuous evaluation of multiple LLMs is essential for promoting ethical and responsible AI practices. By scrutinizing different models, we can gain insights into their ethical implications, identify potential risks, and mitigate any unintended consequences. Automating LLM evaluation facilitates ongoing research and development, ensuring that AI systems uphold fairness, transparency, and accountability, while also maximizing value for the business.
In the rapidly advancing field of LLMs, evaluating multiple models plays a vital role in accelerating time to value, minimizing cost of ownership, overcoming biases, and ensuring the responsible use of AI technology. By embracing diverse perspectives, assessing performance, enhancing robustness, and promoting ethical practices, we pave the way for creating sustainable competitive advantage with custom LLMs for businesses of all sizes across various industries.
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Teams should not expect to succeed with AI using the same knowledge, resources, and culture that made them successful with traditional software.
AI Diligence Services
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Successful investments in AI require deep technical due diligence that is different from what has historically been done with traditional software.
If the code is written and updated by humans, it’s regular software, nothing AI about it (Fake AI). Fake AI is expensive to scale and rarely generates a return worth the risk. Some AI includes machine written code but is still updated manually by expensive data science and software engineering teams. RealAI is self-learning, at machine speed, which dramatically reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO), enabling one data science team to implement and maintain many more use cases at the same cost, and thereby creating strong returns on investment.
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Data is the foundation of AI’s value potential. Understanding the scope of access to data is essential for assessing the value of a business that uses AI.
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High quality machine learning pipelines that perform data ingestion, data engineering, feature engineering, algorithm selection, algorithm configuration, and model validation are essential for creating AI systems with low cost of ownership.
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Deep analysis of the application code and how it integrates machine learning (ML) to create software that continues to improve without human intervention (Real AI) is essential to quantify AI maturity and the value of the opportunity.
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Robust automated test coverage and deployment automation is essential for complex, self-learning AI systems to deliver high returns-on-investment.