The first step to writing a good prompt is knowing what you want, so "start standardizing all types of outputs you require from AI".Don't ask the AI to make many decisions for you: "provide ... a detailed checklist, explain the purpose behind the task, ... clarify any doubts the AI might have".Provide "clear and well-…

prompts help LLMs understand "the question’s context and producing a response that meets the user’s expectations... prompts must be brief, understandable, and use open-ended questions. Prompt engineering includes testing and iterating various prompts ... to build effective prompts."Tips & Tricks:"What, Why, How, or Can You Expla…

A guide to the useful things one can do with LLMs.To write stuff: nothing comes "even close to GPT-4... access at Bing for free or ... subscription to ChatGPT... GPT-3.5 also good and much faster". Some tips: "Getting good writing out of ChatGPT takes some practice"Paste in your text and ask ChatGPT to improve it, suggest &q;…

"autonomous AI agents, currently referred to as AutoGPTs... automate multi-step projects that would otherwise require back-and-forth interactions with GPT-4... enable the chaining of thoughts to accomplish a specified objective and do so autonomously ... have internet access ... [can] read/write files... possess short-term and long-term memor…

"Here are the most important techniques you need for prompting:...Assign a role ... “You are an expert in X... You must always ask questions before you answer so you can better understand what the questioner is seeking"use CoT (Chain of Thought): give the LLM an example of your reasoning and then get it to repeat the reasoning - eg give …

"build a chatbot capable of extracting any kind of information from a set of documents ... your own Document Assistant from scratch, using GPT-3 and Langchain"Good explainer of using embeddings to get around token limits "using LangChain, which is an open-source library designed to simplify the utilization of LLMs with Chain of Thou…

"leverage ChatGPT to answer natural language questions on a variety of text repositories... [via a ]combination of embeddings, vector search, and prompt engineering...Embeddings are mathematical representations of words, phrases, or even entire documents as vectors ... sequences [with] similar meaning are “close together” in a high-dimensiona…

"“Document Search Chatbot” ... field common questions (FAQ’s) based on the content of several documents.... Azure Search to extract and rank key highlights from a set of text documents based on a user query. This user query and Azure Search results are then passed to OpenAI to be interpreted and formatted into a chat based response..."Wh…

A sneak peek at Miro's new AI features for ideation and innovation, including their "AI powered mindmap... mind map with AI assistance"."While ChatGPT can be a powerful tool for generating ideas... the linear nature of chat threads" clashes with ideation's nonlinear nature, & "the sheer volume of ideas genera…

How to set up BLOOM on your own cloud."BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model:free transformer-based language model created by 1000 researcherstrained on about 1,6 TB pre-processed multilingual text.biggest BLOOM model in parameters is 176B = ~GPT-3 scalesmaller models available: 7b, 3b, 1b7Needs 360 GB of RAM ,…

"how you can run state-of-the-art large language models on your local computer" using two models which are "comparable or even outperform GPT [but can] run on your local computer... released under a non-commercial license":"dalai library" - allows us to run LLaMA & Alpaca, provides an API"LLaMA: foundational …

A repost of one of my experiments with the massive.wiki team, where we "developed an approach ... which simultaneously enriches blogging by adding some of the best aspects of wikis, and allows wikis to better host something resembling blogs."

Jon Stokes thinks "people are talking about this chatbot in unhelpful ways... anthropomorphizing ... [and] not working with a practical, productive understanding of what the bot’s main parts are and how they fit together."So he wrote this explainer."At the heart of ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) that belongs to the family o…

"Most of us use ChatGPT wrong. We don’t include examples in our prompts. We ignore that we can control ChatGPT’s behavior with roles. We let ChatGPT guess stuff instead of providing it with some information... We need ... high-quality prompts ... [so here's] 4 techniques used in prompt engineering."There's even a video."Fe…

" a step-by-step guide for building a document Q&A chatbot in an efficient way with llama-index and GPT API... ask the bot in natural language about your own documents/data... [see it] retrieving info from the documents and generating a response [1]... customer support, synthesizing user research, your personal knowledge management"K…

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"ChatGPT API will allow developers to integrate ChatGPT into their own applications, products, or services". Not to be confused with ChatGPT Plus:"API has its own pricing... https://openai.com/pricing.ChatGPT Plus subscription covers usage on chat.openai.com only and costs $20/month."ChatGPT API prices:"Free trial users: 2…

How can a reasonably conservative corner of the European Commission adopt M365?

"You Are Not a Parrot and a chatbot is not a human" - an interview/profile of Emily M. Bender, the "computational linguist at the University of Washington ... [who] co-wrote the octopus paper... to illustrate what ... LLMs ... can and cannot do"The paper: "Climbing Towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Ag…

Wired's rules for using generative AI: "Not for images, yes for research, no for copyediting, maybe for idea generation". Meanwhile interactive book PromptCraft shows how to "get the most out of the creative man/machine communications... AI is like querying our collective intelligence".So how best to design an AI prompt?…

Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT, Bard and Sydney, which "take huge amounts of data, search for patterns in it and become increasingly proficient at generating statistically probable outputs — such as seemingly humanlike language and thought... hailed as the first glimmers on the horizon of artificial general intelligence ... surpassing human ... inte…

"the distributed/federated digital garden approach is the way to go for knowledge commoning... cribbing from ActivityPub's local, global, and 'those-you-follow' timelines... you could have local, 'those-you-follow', and global gardens... [with] some kind of liquid democracy", and interest-based groups, perhaps s…

"Microsoft imagines helping clients launch new chatbots or refine their existing ones", using a version of ChatGPT trained on post-2021 content. "The service should also provide citations to specific resources... give customers ways to upload their own data and refine the voice of their chatbots... replace Microsoft and OpenAI brand…

Good history of design thinking."IDEO’s way of working: a six-step methodology for innovation called design thinking... Key ... was its replicable aesthetic, represented by the Post-it note:... Not too precious, not too permanent... promises a fast-moving, cooperative, egalitarian process", but is also "disruptive, startup-flavored …

"a modern version of del.icio.us meets Roam... a searchable, interconnected repository of the most insightful content on the Internet" - and a pretty interesting example of convergent evolution vis a vis myhub.ai

from Alice Albrecht, who "runs re:collect, a startup building an AI-powered thought partner:... advances in AI and cheaper compute lower the bar for getting from a creative idea to a final output... though, we still need to provide the initial seed... and ... judge whether we’re heading in the right direction. We’re still the creative direct…

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ChatGPT-powered, the "‘My AI’ bot will ... initially only available for $3.99 a month Snapchat Plus subscribers.., eventually all... we’re going to talk to AI every day" - useful, if you're a messaging service.It's a "fast mobile-friendly version of ChatGPT inside Snapchat... trained to adhere to the company’s trust and sa…

While "Wolfram Alpha... seeks to distill scientific facts and perform calculations", ChatGPT and other similar AIs "build statistical models and string together sentences or pictures by calculating probabilities (of what the next word should be, for example). That has led to all kinds of mistakes ... Wolfram is not optimistic that t…

"What if we were to think of LLMs not as tools for answering questions, but as tools for asking us questions and inspiring our creativity? ... even simple tools can lead to interesting results when they clash with the contents of our minds"So he tries using ChatGPT as a muse. TL:DR; "ChatGPT asked me probing questions, suggested spe…