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Author(s): Rittika Jindal Originally published on Towards AI. Choosing between a script, RAG, a fixed workflow, and an AI agent using four requests to the same support team. Imagine you’re automating a billing-support inbox. Four customers send four different requests: Does this ttask actually need an Agent?The article explains that whether you need an LLM, RAG, a fixed workflow...

Last Updated on October 29, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Sheqon Originally published on Towards AI. Reading, Writing, Sharing, and Interacting with the World through Video A Video Is a Trace of a World TL; DR. We treat a video as a partial, lossy, time-ordered observation of a world that keeps evolving whether or not the camera sees it. Four operations connect the two — rea...

Last Updated on October 29, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Kasrasadatsharifi Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding the architectural decisions behind ConvNeXt, advantages and disadvantages over Vision Transformers and older CNNs. For years, CNN models dominated computer vision tasks such as classification, object detection, segmentaiton, etc. In 2020, with the int...

Last Updated on October 29, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Hayanan Originally published on Towards AI. Calling everything AI is a little like giving every variable in a program the type any. It saves us the trouble of being specific. It also hides the mistakes we most need to catch. I would be worried about a codebase in which every variable was declared as any. Cover image —...

Last Updated on October 29, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Senthil Originally published on Towards AI. How the LLM (and the World Around It) Changed Forever — 2022 to 2026 Before we talk about tokens, let’s set the stage — because 2022 feels less like four years ago and more like a different geological era. The geopolitics: In February 2022, Russia launched its full-scale inv...