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Document Processing

Quick recap on recent advancements in Document-processing below. Read more...

ChatGPT-on-GPT-4: Knowledge Cut-off and Performance

ChatGPT-on-GPT-4 now reports knowledge cut-off in January 2022 and will answer questions even beyond. However, anything I‘ve tried turned out hallucinous (or vague/anticipated, e.g. the French elections in February). GPT-4-via-API still reports cut-off as of September 2021. Read more...

OpenAI's GPT 3.5 Instruct Model Announcement

OpenAI’s new GPT 3.5 Instruct model announced through E-Mail, pasted below. This is a drop-in replacement to text-davinci-003. It is widely used in code snippets around the web, so it’s good to finally have an optional available that combines the traditional TextCompletion interface and mode of operation with the benefits of GPT-3.5-turbo. Notew... Read more...

Google's Gemini: Predictions and Implications

Google has allegedly given a few companies preview access to Gemini: Reuters. Some commenter predicted General Availability in December. If the GPT-4 timeline is any measure, that’s not unreasonable to assume: Read more...

Claude 2: Model vs. System

A comparison chart of various Chatbots has raised some questions on Claude 2, in particular the “Free” price tag. Like with “ChatGPT”, different people mean different things by it, and it again helps to think in the categories previously established by Miles Brundage: Models, Platforms and Systems. Here is his slide extended with Claude 2: Read more...