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Build agentic retrieval on a Managed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with CDK

This post builds enterprise agentic retrieval on a Managed Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). To see why that’s worth building, it helps to start with where ordinary Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) breaks down. Most RAG systems start the same way: they embed the question, fetch the nearest chunks […]

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At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI

Legal scholar Martha Minow delivered this fall’s Compton Lecture at MIT on Thursday, examining the civic foundations of democracy — and describing how artificial intelligence is undermining it, but could be used to help reinforce traditional U.S. governance.  “It’s not a good time for democracy or constitutionalism,” said Minow, who is the 300th Anniversary University

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Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT

At the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) 75th Anniversary Symposium, speakers celebrated the school’s value and contributions, while exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming many aspects of teaching, research, and society. The symposium was held Sept. 24-25 in the Linde Music Building’s Thomas Tull Concert Hall. Scholars, students, staff, and alumni

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