A lot of background on the practicalities from one of the Sora private beta-testing teams: https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/actually-using-sora/ „Air Head still needed a large amount of editorial and human direction to produce this engaging and funny story film.“ This included using Adobe After Effects. N.B.: The article states that Sora is ... Read more 25 Apr 2024 - less than 1 minute read
Urchade Zaratiana has released GLiNER, an NER model created “that can identify any type of entity using a bidirectional transformer encoder”. One of the ToDos listed is „Allow longer context“, and a closer look reveals that: The Colab caps out at 384 tokens, and confirms DebertaV2 architecture. Interesting, but too restricted as of now. Read more 25 Apr 2024 - less than 1 minute read
How does one record a live stream in absence, perhaps using AWS EC2? A discussion on Reddit lead me to base everything on a g5.xlarge instance. Problems: ⚒️ On the Windows Server, there initially was no soundcard. Fixed by simply installing Virtual Audio Cable (VAC)? Fixed by running Microsoft Teams in an OBS Source of type “Browser”: this will... Read more 21 Apr 2024 - 2 minute read
Peter Gostev on LinkedIn remarks that Google has ‘hacked’ the LMSYS Chatbot Arena by having Gemini 1.5 format responses nicely - and concludes that results should now be taken with a grain of salt. I agree. Further, the models there seem to run at a temperature that causes the Llamas and also Mistral to hallucinate wildly sometimes but not alwa... Read more 17 Apr 2024 - 1 minute read
I have announced the trinity of my chat interfaces on LinkedIn, peppered with some background reading/watching material. This is kind-of in response to a Singapore taxi driver asking “How to get into AI” and me frantically filling his OneNote. How I wish there was a single, actually good starting point! (This still isn’t.) Note about the Amazon... Read more 13 Apr 2024 - 1 minute read