Nils Durner's Blog Ahas, Breadcrumbs, Coding Epiphanies

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...

Aleph Alpha

First glance at & hands-on Aleph Alpha, the German competitor of OpenAI: Read more...

LlamaIndex

Prompted by an interview with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex posted by a colleague, I shared that we have been evaluating this since March or so, with rather poor results esp. when the data basis gets larger. I contributed a patch to add GPT-4 support, but as it turned out, the problems are not with the backend LLM, but IMHO a fundamental design issue ... Read more...