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Building Confidential and Secure AI Solutions for Education, Engineering and Business

date: Dec. 31, 2024, 3:41 p.m.

It happened that after my last week’s article about Local AI Assistant I discussed AI opportunities with a friend. Christmas time is a good time for friends and family, and he brought up a question about using ChatGPT and the security of his data.

We all know about ChatGPT. OpenAI also provides some APIs that allow you to integrate chat functionality into your applications, for example as a chat-bot. But my friend saw two problems:

  • Training Costs: To be useful chat-bot should operate with business data (for example operation hours, prices, etc.), which means he need to train it. Everyone knows that training large language models (LLM or AI) costs a lot of money.
  • Data Security: He was willing to use his proprietary data for his own chat-bot but wasn’t comfortable with OpenAI, or any other company incorporating that know-how into their large language models. AI providers typically need more data to train their models, and he doesn’t want his data ending up in someone else’s product.

At that moment, I realized that despite AI’s popularity, people, who don’t work with AI technologies often not have enough information about how they can use it. That’s why, after answering his questions, I decided to publish my answers here.



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My note about how to print images

date: May 28, 2024, 9:58 a.m.
Tags: hobby my_notes
Recently, I found a very interesting article about how to calculate image sizes for printing: Best image size for printing. I hadn't seen this approach before and probably need to try it. It should be easy because they also provided an online calculator that makes it easy to calculate the optimal image size for various lens focal lengths, viewing distances, and sensor sizes. ...read more