Nils Durner's Blog Ahas, Breadcrumbs, Coding Epiphanies

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 Read more...

Anthropic's Claude 2: Initial Impressions

Anthropic have released Claude 2, touting “two times better at giving harmless answers”. Initial reactions on the web seem favorable, particularly regarding the support of larger documents that ChatGPT. What I have seen so far with the regular end-user chat UI: Read more...

Non-Uniform Performance in In-Context Learning

Non-uniform performance reported for in-context learning: How Language Models Use Long Contexts: Read more...

GPT-4 General Availability, Deprecation

GPT-4 API was just made generally available, and: Read more...

SAP invests in Aleph Alpha

Prompted by a colleague posting the Handelblatt article about SAP investing in Aleph Alpha, I elaborated that the beauty of Aleph Alpha is GDPR-compliance and generally good data hygiene. With OpenAI, for me it’s oftentimes a “write code to do X”, with X actually being done on data that sits with me locally. But if X requires advanced natural la... Read more...