AI/ML

A few weeks ago Anthropic [announced they had extracted millions of understandable features](https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/21/scaling-monosemanticity-extracting-interpretable-features-from-c/) from their Claude 3 Sonnet model. Today OpenAI are announcing a similar result against GPT-4: We …

A diagram I found online about distinguishing facts and value judgments. Seems easy enough! For more than a decade the dominant training methodology in...

Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI girlfriends.

Breaking down the Big Tech AI landscape through the lens of integration and modularization

A path to continued model improvement.

Use python to summarize and query from lots of documents like you're the US president - thiswillbeyourgithub/DocToolsLLM

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Posted on Friday 31 May 2024. 2,764 words, 27 links. By Matt Webb.

The real threat with super intelligence is falling prey to the hype

This report looks at how people use generative AI, and what they think about its application in journalism and other areas of work and life across six countries.

Anthropic is the smallest, youngest, and least well-financed of all the “frontier” AI labs. It’s also nurturing a reputation as the safest.

I’m beginning to suspect that one of the most common misconceptions about LLMs such as ChatGPT involves how “training” works. A common complaint I see about these tools is that …

How to destroy your greatest asset with AI.

Helen Toner shared explosive details about Sam Altman's ousting as OpenAI CEO in November, accusing him of lying to the board.

Exa API - connect your AI to the Internet

University of Chicago researchers demonstrate GPT-4's remarkable ability to predict corporate earnings, outperforming human analysts and transforming the future of financial statement analysis.

We tested OpenAI’s ChatGPT against Microsoft’s Copilot and Google’s Gemini, along with Perplexity and Anthropic’s Claude. Here’s how they ranked.

Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine. It is an Open source alternative to Perplexity AI - ItzCrazyKns/Perplexica

Interact with your SQL database, Natural Language to SQL using LLMs - Dataherald/dataherald

I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot repeat history exactly. However, I can rhyme with it.

MacWhisper has been updated to version 8 with some new features, including a video player. Multiple apps use the Whisper model to perform transcription. I bought a license for MacWhisper early, and I’ve been using it a lot ever since. One example: We use a Notion database to manage all the MacSparky content (this blog, the... Continue reading →

I was taken aback by a recent CNBC article entitled “ Generative AI will be designing new drugs all on its own in the near future ”.  I shou...

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What goes on in artificial neural networks work is largely a mystery, even to their creators. But researchers from Anthropic have caught a glimpse.

Randomness, rules and natural systems. Some non-restrictive definitions and an exploration of the form.

Company insiders explain why safety-conscious employees are leaving.

LLMs hallucinate—generate incorrect, misleading, or nonsensical information. Some, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, consider AI hallucinations creativity, and others believe hallucinations might be helpful in making new scientific discoveries. However, they aren’t a feature but a bug in most cases where providing a correct response is important.

Learn how to harness the power of ChatGPT and use advanced brainstorming techniques to think up new ideas or solutions to existing

The hype is so loud we can’t appreciate the magic