From Ethan Mollick’s LinkedIn post about AI-generated sound effects to the recent Heise iX article on AI in UI design, it’s clear that AI is making inroads into every aspect of digital creation. But as with any new technology, it’s crucial to approach these developments with a critical eye. The Heise iX article, for instance, shows that while C... Read more 31 May 2024 - 1 minute read
People on Social Media are excited about a new model on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena: gpt2-chatbot. Some theorize that it may be GPT-2. I have fingerprinted the Tokenizer, and no: not GPT-2, but consistent with OpenAI cl100k (used for GPT 3.5 onwards). Peculiar gaps in world knowledge (both niche and common knowledge) were the same as in the other GP... Read more 29 May 2024 - less than 1 minute read
Inspired by some recent discussion about website optimization, I have posed a query for factual background information to Bing Copilot - which I have recently come to like. In my tests, this pulled background information from a relevant Confluence and Service Desk, but mixed up two products by the same company - while I was actually looking for ... Read more 26 May 2024 - 1 minute read
A recent paper titled “ClashEval: Quantifying the tug-of-war between an LLM’s internal prior and external evidence” (arXiv:2404.10198) reveals that measures implemented to combat misinformation might inadvertently hinder the effectiveness of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems in certain industry applications. The researchers introduce... Read more 20 May 2024 - less than 1 minute read
Ethan Mollick recently shared some intriguing data about AI spending patterns. The numbers, sourced from a Ramp report, seem to paint a rosy picture for OpenAI. But it’s worth digging a bit deeper. According to the report, OpenAI is experiencing impressive retention and growth numbers. A whopping 82% of companies that spent on OpenAI a year ago... Read more 17 May 2024 - 1 minute read