"we used AI to make a video without writing a script or picking up a camera, but that looks as though it was filmed...:[asked] ChatGPT... Write a script in the style of a YouTube video about how to make an apple pie. The video should be under 60 seconds long. The script should feel friendly in nature...Generate your avatar video with Synthesi…

The following short summary was generated by Harpa:🆕 Dall-E3 is OpenAI's latest AI image generator, with improved quality and safety features.🤖 It competes with MidJourney AI.💰 Users can sell images created with Dall-E3.⚠️ Ethical concerns surround its use.🌟 Dall-E3 impresses in early previews, enhancing ChatGPT's power.---The original H…

Asks: could LLMs be used to "create tools that sift and summarize scientific evidence for policymaking... [for] knowledge brokers providing presidents, prime ministers, civil servants and politicians with up-to-date information on how science and technology intersects with societal issues... [who must] nimbly navigate ... millions of scientif…

How to use LLMs to solve "really hard problems"? The "AIdeas Collider" approach, piloted by Head of Innovation Design at MIT's Collective Intelligence Design Lab.

"now you can control how ChatGPT responds in every chat by using custom instructions" - this quick runthrough of what they are, how to enable them, and some examples only scratches the surface.When using custom instructions you answer two questions:tell ChatGPT more about youtell ChatGPT how you want it to respondThe two answers should p…

"how can you use ChatGPT to generate ideas and brainstorm within Obsidian?", which is currently my note-taking tool of choice. First, some generic advice for prompting:"be specific about the outcome that you want to achieve... providing a prompt that contains more descriptive language ...give preceding prompts ... [specify the] resp…

As wired puts it: "All sorts of apps have been strapping on AI functionality... any of it useful?"For example, email apps "like Spark and Canary are prominently bragging about their built-in AI functionality... write replies for you... generate an entire email ... summarize a long email ... or even a thread."While it sounds goo…

To avoid "robotic, cliche AI text that sounds fake" and get "AI-generated content to emulate your unique writing style", you have to feed the AI a sample of your writing. A good prompt:"Based on the tone and writing style in the seed text, create a style guide for a blog or publication that captures the essence of the seed…

One of my favourite writers in this area on AGI risks. "It is the rise of artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., that worries the experts... Yet a nascent A.G.I. lobby of academics, investors and entrepreneurs counter that, once made safe, A.G.I. would be a boon to civilization... beholden to an ideology that views this new technology as…

Borrowing heavily from an article "about social media platform saturation inspired by the craze to sign up on Threads (only to sign out a week later).", Alberto Romero does the same for generative AI to explain "why it isn’t worth getting generative AI fatigue.After providing a potted timeline of the release of the major LLMs for th…

Online chatbots are supposed to have "guardrails ... to prevent their systems from generating hate speech, disinformation and other toxic material. Now there is a way to easily poke holes in those safety systems... and use any of the leading chatbots to generate nearly unlimited amounts of harmful information... [using] a method gleaned from …

A (rather MS-worshipful) introduction to "Code Interpreter... game-changing plugin inside GPT-4 that simplifies data handling and analysis by using plain English ... anyone — regardless of their technical skills — can access and interpret complex information in seconds.""Several" use cases are presented, but all are in fact dat…

Summarises a recent Meta paper on Llama 2, "a continuation of the LLaMA... Big picture, this is a big step for the LLM ecosystem when research sharing is at an all-time low and regulatory capture at an all-time high" - so Meta continues its improbable position as good guy in the OS movement (at least when it comes to AI, but also possibl…

An interview with Demis Hassabis, head of Google DeepMind & architect behind AlphaFold.

"Specification gaming: a behaviour that satisfies the literal specification of an objective without achieving the intended outcome"

"ChatGPT only looks at the past... [it's response] based on an “average” of everything already said on the issue. It’s pure reversion to the mean"

Explores the risks posed by AI in seven areas:Who will take responsibility if an AI military system goes “rogue” with devastating results? ...AI could eventually replace a quarter of the full-time jobs in the United States and Europe. Computer programmers, marketing researchers, media workers and teachers ...Privacy: The surveillance potential of …

Fantastic essay by Sara Walker, an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist, reframing AI into deep historical and evolutionary contexts.Starts by pointing out that "we are embedded in a living world, yet we do not even recognize all the life on our own Earth. For most of human history, we were unaware of the legions of bacteria living and dy…

Fantastic essay by Sara Walker, an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist, reframing AI into deep historical and evolutionary contexts.Starts by pointing out that "we are embedded in a living world, yet we do not even recognize all the life on our own Earth. For most of human history, we were unaware of the legions of bacteria living and dy…

Google's new experimental product, Project Tailwind, is based on a "source-grounded AI ... allows you to define a set of documents as trusted sources ... a kind of ground truth ... craft a ... LLM that is not an all-knowing oracle or your new virtual buddy, but something closer to an efficient research assistant...This is exactly why I c…

Etan Mollick with "A pragmatic approach to thinking about AI", taking issue with the idea that "since AI is made of software, it should be treated like other software. But AI is terrible software... We want our software to yield the same outcomes every time", which LLMs clearly don't.He makes a couple of other arguments (w…

Etan Mollick with "A pragmatic approach to thinking about AI", taking issue with the idea that "since AI is made of software, it should be treated like other software. But AI is terrible software... We want our software to yield the same outcomes every time", which LLMs clearly don't.He makes a couple of other arguments (w…

Staying aware of the opportunities as they arise is a key element to being a commercially successful thought leader.

"an initial analysis of a growing movement ... to make key machine learning tools and technologies open and shared. “Open Artificial Intelligence”...BLOOM is a large language model released under RAIL – a new copyright license that combines an Open Access approach to licensing with behavioral restrictions aimed to enforce a vision of responsi…

"AI-generated advice represents a huge shift"convenience: whereas a google search inundates you with results mixed with spam, splog and ads, "ChatGPT streamline this process... people choose convenience over almost anything else... [cf]Fogg’s behavior model: Behavior = Motivation × Ability × Prompt". With AI, it's finally …

"AI-generated advice represents a huge shift"convenience: whereas a google search inundates you with results mixed with spam, splog and ads, "ChatGPT streamline this process... people choose convenience over almost anything else... [cf]Fogg’s behavior model: Behavior = Motivation × Ability × Prompt". With AI, it's finally …

"Code Interpreter mode ... [allows] ChatGPT ... generate Python code and execute it in a restricted sandbox" - no network access, can access pre-approved libraries.

ChatGPT can be "a highly capable writing partner that never sleeps ... [if you] treat it like an editor, a proofreader, and a disgruntled reader... make it an enemy of my text and let it attack it as vigorously as possible."personal devil's advocate: ask it "to list the top three arguments that someone opposed to my thinking wo…

a collection of prompt examples to be used with ChatGPT

While my focus at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre has been on their Knowledge4Policy platform (K4P), I've recently been pulled in to help design their internal communications, community, collaboration & knowledge management strategy as they grapple with migrating from Jive to M365.