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BLOOM 176B — how to run a real LARGE language model in your own cloud?
medium.com

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 ,…

09/04/2023
LLaMA & Alpaca: “ChatGPT” On Your Local Computer 🤯 | Tutorial
medium.com

"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: foundationa…

08/04/2023
ChatGPT Explained: A Normie's Guide To How It Works
www.jonstokes.com

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…

30/03/2023
You’re Using ChatGPT Wrong! Here’s How to Be Ahead of 99% of ChatGPT Users
artificialcorner.com

"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…

28/03/2023
A step-by-step guide to building a chatbot based on your own documents with GPT
bootcamp.uxdesign.cc

" 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…

ChatGPT API FAQ
help.openai.com

"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…

23/03/2023
ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender
nymag.com

"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…

Opinion | Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com

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…

10/03/2023
Microsoft will offer ChatGPT tech for companies to customize: source
www.cnbc.com

"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…

09/03/2023
Snapchat releases ‘My AI’ chatbot powered by ChatGPT
www.theverge.com

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…

02/03/2023
Stephen Wolfram sees peril, and promise, in ChatGPT
www.bostonglobe.com

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…

ChatGPT as muse, not oracle
www.geoffreylitt.com

"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…

01/03/2023
Bing Is a Liar—and It’s Ready to Call the Cops
www.motherjones.com

When James West "joined a small wave of users granted early access" to the new Bing (I'll call and tag it "BingGPT"), powered by the same LLM behind ChatGPT, which is "a great party trick ... powerful work tool, capable of jumpstarting creativity, automating mundane tasks", he soon "noticed strange inconsist…

Journalism is Lossy Compression. In The New Yorker, Ted Chiang ...
medium.com

Jeff Jarvis is not a fan of Ted Chiang's piece on CgatGPT, although he does admit TC (one of my favourite authors) "makes a clever comparison between lossy compression... and large-language models, which learn from and spit back but do not record the entire web". Indeed, he takes the metaphor further: "what is journalism itself…

14/02/2023
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
www.newyorker.com

Interesting, illuminating (but contested) metaphor for thinking about LLMs from one of my favourite authors, Ted Chiang:"Think of ChatGPT as a blurry jpeg of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information... but, if you’re looking for an exact sequence of bits, you won’t find it; all you will ever get is an approximation... nonse…

I Built an AI Chatbot Based On My Favorite Podcast
every.to

This piece captures and then explores exactly what I've always thought about the future direction of myhub.ai: imagine what would happen if you had your own personal AI assistant operating across your content - your public posts, private library (including content shared from friends, stuff in your reading queue, etc.) and the wider web, emph…

I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language - by Dylan Black
maximumeffort.substack.com

"Ipop gloop glog bluba droma floom gloope splog slopa" - This sentence means "The happy slime sees the earth under the sky while eating the slime's food" in Glorp. Here's the breakdown of the sentence:ChatGPT and I invent a fictional language spoken by slime-people... It understands subordinate clauses ... so understa…

17/12/2022
Everyone's having a field day with ChatGPT – but nobody knows how it actually works
theconversation.com

Is ChatGPT creator OpenAI "a potential Google slayer. Why look up something on a search engine when ChatGPT can write a whole paragraph explaining the answer?" It's very capable, but "struggles to distinguish between truth and falsehood... often a persuasive liar... a bit like autocomplete on your phone... trained on pretty muc…

ChatGPT Creates a Working WordPress Plugin – On the First Try
wptavern.com

"WordPress developer Johnathon Williams ... demonstrated that, with a little bit of expert guidance, ChatGPT can drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to extend WordPress... the plugin [written by GPT] ... worked on the first try... the best results from asking ChatGPI to generate entire functions versus specific filters or actions..…

14/12/2022
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Bot Recreates Racial Profiling
theintercept.com

Another piece pointing out that ChatGPT, while "easily the most impressive text-generating demo to date... trained through a mix of crunching billions of text documents and human coaching", should not be trusted."a generative AI is what it eats", and ChatGPT ate countless biases in the content it processed. "No one should …

14/12/2022
ChatGPT, Galactica, and the Progress Trap
www.wired.com

The claims re: ChatGPT by "fascinated evangelists... [that they] contain “humanity’s scientific knowledge,” are approaching artificial general intelligence ... even consciousness", are simply "a distraction from the actual harm perpetuated by these systems. People get hurt from the very practical ways such models fall short in deplo…

14/12/2022
Combining GPT3 and Web Search — Perplexity.ai and lexi.ai
blog.ouseful.info

"ChatGPT is not overly reliable... surprising how often ... right, but they can also be plausible and wrong a lot of the time, and downright obviously wrong some of the time... responding with errors of fact, ... responses that may only be true for certain (biased) contexts... wary of providing evidence or citations ... [but] happy to make up…

The Mechanical Professor
oneusefulthing.substack.com

ChatGPT... is going to change our world much sooner than we expect, and much more drastically

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