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Early experiments with GPT-4

Microsoft Research paper: “Early experiments with GPT-4”. With ChatGPT Plus largely being vaporware at this point, this is a nice overview of what to reasonably expect. I haven’t finished it yet, but things worth pointing out: drawing vector graphics in LaTeX reverse prompting to retrieve up-to-date information from the web ... Read more

Press kit for AI

Jörg Lenz shared today the article Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes? and his thoughts on why and how this might be a great tool to draft marketing campaigns. Related idea: new-age press kits that establish the ground truth (like, quick facts for the AI) the grounding itself (helpful prompt engineering so I won’t freewheel) so writ... Read more

Hallucinations

From a research paper attached that touches on Hallucinations: To mitigate hallucinations [43, 44] which are common in large language models, we ground the input context to GPT-3 with news articles from the event cluster […] to ensure the generated questions are relevant to the event. Source: SmartBook: AI-Assisted Situation Report Generati... Read more

NewsGuard: GPT-4 produces more misinformation than predecessor

On the recent NewsGuard report that “Despite OpenAI’s Promises, the Company’s New AI Tool Produces Misinformation More Frequently, and More Persuasively, than its Predecessor”: Quick check: the first 3 responses of their tests score high ( >= 5) in terms of faky’ness when using GPT-4 as a moderation/rating system. The first 3 “news of 2021” ... Read more

Google Bard

Got my invite to Google Bard today. Short summary so far: feels like a huge construction site, with varying levels of maturity in the individual areas. Hardly worth anyone’s time at this point. Some more detailed impressions: default response: “I’m a language model and don’t have the capacity to help with that.” - even for things that worked... Read more