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Inspire Session on 'Client AI at Scale'

Notes on the Inspire session on „Client AI at Scale“: Minor quality improvements today, more energy efficient (screenshots #1, #3) Upcoming Intel Meteor Lake to include equivalent to Google TPU, Apple Bionic Engine: „VPU“ (screenshot #2) Some examples of Frameworks given, including DirectML (screenshot #4). Questions about local Llama 2,... Read more

Microsoft and Qualcomm's Announcement on LLaMA 2 Integration

How the Facebook LLaMA 2 announcement was presented and contextualized on the side of Microsoft at their Inspire event: it started with a lengthy love letter to OpenAI (screenshot #1) and transitioned to elaborating on their enduring engagement in Open Source (screenshot #2): We’re one of the largest contributors to Open Source and when it c... Read more

Bing Enterprise Chat & Code Generation

One of the other things that transpired at the Inspire keynote was Bing Enterprise Chat, which addresses data privacy concerns and requirements by businesses. “Not saved” in screenshot #3 means that prompts are not saved, which is different from chat.openai.com. Also, Visual Search in Bing Chat includes the generate-code-from-scribble that ... Read more

AI Getting Dumber or Behavior Change?

Reports about “AI getting dumber” are making international headlines in daily newspapers and professional outlets alike. I’m convinced that this is not what has happened. Rather, it’s a bugfix gone wrong. I liked to say that no matter how low-effort your inquiry is, GPT-4 will always come back with a good answer (🇩🇪 “Du kannst da unqualifiziert ... Read more

The Reality of Quivr and Other AI Projects

Quick reality check on Quivr, a tool to: Dump all your files and chat with it using your Generative AI Second Brain using LLMs (GPT 3.5/4, Private, Anthropic, VertexAI) & Embeddings There has been a seemingly endless stream of such projects over the last several months. The core concept is always the same, but the newest incarnations di... Read more