Nils Durner's Blog Ahas, Breadcrumbs, Coding Epiphanies

OpenAI Dev Day: Practical Notes

Following up on the OpenAI Dev Day, here a few practical notes: Some terms used in the keynote are different from what developers see: “GPTs” vs. “Assistant” (or are there differences?), “GPT-4 Turbo” vs. “gpt-4-1106-preview”. Playground remains buggy, it feels like a rushed released. I continue to be unable to create an Assistant that wou... Read more

Adobe Firefly: A Case Study

Quick case study of Adobe Firefly (“creative generative AI models with an initial focus on image and text effect generation”): With picture #1 below, I wanted to emphasize on the model in the center, thus clean up the distractions on the left side, and also move the laptop on the right upwards. The “Inpainting” function in Affinity Photo.app wo... Read more

Amazon Bedrock Chat (Nils' Version)

I have rigged up a quick web application for easier experimentation with the Claude-2 Foundation Model. Major features (see screenshot): (Text) File upload Formatted output (Markdown) Copy-to-clipboard saving of access credentials (in the browser’s local store) Notably... Read more

Large Language Models as General Pattern Machines

Maybe Saturday Shenanigans, maybe not: “Large Language Models as General Pattern Machines”: Large language models (LLMs) are trained to absorb the myriad of patterns that are woven into the structure of language. […] A key observation of our work—and perhaps contrary to the predominant intuition—is that an LLM’s ability to represent, manipul... Read more

Updates on Document-Processing

Updates on Document-Processing: long context models Claude-2 100K and GPT-4-32K have landed on my desk. Huge thanks 🙏🏻 to the benefactors! My first use-case: convert a project overview I had foolishly written in Word to plain text Markdown, to grace my Bitbucket source code repository. I saved the Word document to the “Word XML document (*.... Read more