Brad Nikkel

AI Content Fellow

Brad is a former Green Beret who recently studied symbolic systems at Stanford, concentrating in artificial intelligence. He enjoys meaningfully wandering (hiking) outdoors, exploring our planet, and checking out museums.

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What Developers Should Know About Model Selection, Adaptation, and Tuning for Enterprise Speech Data (Part 1)
Article·Oct 6, 2025
What Developers Should Know About Model Selection, Adaptation, and Tuning for Enterprise Speech Data (Part 1)
Evaluating Healthcare AI Agents: Building Trustworthy Machines
Article·Sep 12, 2025·AI Engineering & Research
Evaluating Healthcare AI Agents: Building Trustworthy Machines
AI Agents for Healthcare: What Works and What Obstacles May Come
Article·Sep 8, 2025·AI Engineering & Research
AI Agents for Healthcare: What Works and What Obstacles May Come
Healthcare’s Future: AI Agents in Action Throughout a Patient’s Journey
Article·Sep 4, 2025·AI Engineering & Research
Healthcare’s Future: AI Agents in Action Throughout a Patient’s Journey
How AI Agents Evolve Beyond Rule-Based Systems: Immediate Impacts
Article·Aug 26, 2025
How AI Agents Evolve Beyond Rule-Based Systems: Immediate Impacts
Beyond Simple Automation - What Exactly Are AI Agents in Healthcare?
Article·Aug 19, 2025·AI Engineering & Research
Beyond Simple Automation - What Exactly Are AI Agents in Healthcare?
The Dawn of AI Agents in Healthcare: Why Now?
Article·Aug 12, 2025·AI Engineering & Research
The Dawn of AI Agents in Healthcare: Why Now?
Deepgram vs OpenAI vs Google STT: Accuracy, Latency, & Price Compared
Article·Jun 26, 2025·AI Engineering & Research
Deepgram vs OpenAI vs Google STT: Accuracy, Latency, & Price Compared
Why Medical Transcription is Hard for Humans and Machines
Article·Nov 18, 2024·AI Trends & News
Why Medical Transcription is Hard for Humans and Machines
Liquid Neural Networks: Fluid, Flexible Neurons
Article·Jul 5, 2024·AI Engineering & Research
Liquid Neural Networks: Fluid, Flexible Neurons
Multimodal Graph-of-Thoughts: How Text, Images, and Graphs Lead to Better Reasoning
Article·Apr 25, 2024·AI Trends & News
Multimodal Graph-of-Thoughts: How Text, Images, and Graphs Lead to Better Reasoning
Environment-Aware TTS Just Sounds Better: The Key to Natural-Sounding AI
Article·Feb 26, 2024·AI Engineering & Research
Environment-Aware TTS Just Sounds Better: The Key to Natural-Sounding AI
Listening to Forests with Machine Learning & Algorithms
Article·Jan 26, 2024·AI Engineering & Research
Listening to Forests with Machine Learning & Algorithms
How the AI Business World Actually Works: A Startup’s War
Article·Dec 1, 2023·AI Trends & News
How the AI Business World Actually Works: A Startup’s War
RAG vs. Finetuning: Enhancing LLMs with new knowledge
Article·Oct 31, 2023·AI Trends & News
RAG vs. Finetuning: Enhancing LLMs with new knowledge
Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques: Tree-of-Thoughts Prompting
Article·Oct 12, 2023·AI Engineering & Research
Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques: Tree-of-Thoughts Prompting
Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Helping LLMs Learn by Example
Article·Oct 2, 2023·AI Engineering & Research
Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Helping LLMs Learn by Example
How Do Language Models Handle Obscure Words?
Article·Sep 8, 2023·AI Engineering & Research
How Do Language Models Handle Obscure Words?
API-Bank: Benchmarking Language Models’ Tool Use
Article·Aug 28, 2023·AI Engineering & Research
API-Bank: Benchmarking Language Models’ Tool Use
MMLU: Better Benchmarking for LLM Language Understanding
Article·Aug 22, 2023·AI Engineering & Research
MMLU: Better Benchmarking for LLM Language Understanding

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