Nils Durner's Blog Ahas, Breadcrumbs, Coding Epiphanies

GPT-4 based filter for RSS feeds

I have published my content filtering/scoring system for RSS feeds on Github: FilterRSS. Of general interest may be how GPT-4 can be used to self-instruct, to build the actual filters from a few examples: FilterRSS#system-prompt - or at least give you some ideas for starters. My use-cases include this leading researcher on Twitter who unfortuna... Read more

Udemy ChatGPT course

Those who enjoy a corporate Udemy account may be interested in the course “ChatGPT Masterclass: A Complete ChatGPT Guide for Beginners”. Despite the title, it also goes beyond ChatGPT: How to create high quality images using [DALL·E] Create code and apps using the open api of OpenAI Read more

The Economist on AI

The current issue of The Economist features several articles on AI. These mention the „Common Crawl“ as a data source, rather than „mostly Wikipedia“. (I remember the Common Crawl from the LLaMA context and others, with diagrams available detailing the composition of the dataset besides the C.C.). Read more

Mass Editing Memory in a Transformer

Wonderful Research paper on “Mass Editing Memory in a Transformer”. Updating facts is one thing, but there is also the “right to be forgotten” which needs to be addressed by an actually lawful AI. This is based on GPT-2, and OpenAI say they’re not training GPT-5. One may wonder what the brainiacs are doing instead, and THIS sounds like something... Read more

Google Bard supports Coding / Codeium caught cheating?

Google Bard now supports coding as an explicit use-case. It improves on Github Copilot and also GPT-4/ChatGPT in terms of rights awareness: If Bard quotes at length from an existing open source project, it will cite the source. Using the same sample of (alleged) LGPL-infringement that Codeium present in their recent blogpost: implement the... Read more