Nils Durner's Blog Ahas, Breadcrumbs, Coding Epiphanies

OpenAI Usage Limit

During AI Lab, we talked about the standard OpenAI account usage limit of $120, and the need to explicitly request & wait for an increase. In addition to the 70€(?) spent by the other 4 teams, my team has spent 20€. Now, I just woke up to this note, without having filed such a request: Perhaps this means that your OpenAI limits automatica... Read more

Namirial AI Lab

My team has won Namirial “AI Lab” Hackathon in Milan. Our work is going to be released as part of the eSignAnyWhere product, so remains confidential for now. Celebratory post: LinkedIn. Read more

Falcon 40B

I tried the “Instruct” finetuned variant of Falcon 40B (🥇 on OpenLLM leaderboard) to format a plaintext list of sightseeing recommendations in HTML and add some links. And this prediction engine (🙈), the one that “predicts what words are likely to come next” (🙈🙈), glitched out with: … OK then, in accordance with the prophecy, I’ll visit Navigl... Read more

Microsoft BUILD: E-Signature & Syntex

Possibly AI-driven E-Signing, defined at the AI-supported document generation stage(?), shown as part of the Microsoft Syntex plugin to Copilot 365 demo at MS Build Day #2. Among other things, Syntex „will allow you to build new documents“ from existing content. „When done, the plugin can add Syntex eSignatures for your approval“. A quick ... Read more

McKinsey & more mythbusting

A colleague today shared the McKinsey report on “What every CEO should know about generative AI”. I think it’s well and acurately written. They don’t invoke the tired “it just predicts the next word”, so this is actually a good read for friends & family as well! More narrow myth busting: ChatGPT is NOT simply “predicting” the next word ... Read more