Nils Durner's Blog Ahas, Breadcrumbs, Coding Epiphanies

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: 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. Read more...

McKinsey & more mythbusting

A colleague today shared the McKinsey report on “What every CEO should know about generative AI”. Read more...

Google PaLM and MakerSuite

Hands-on on Google PaLM API and MakerSuite: Summary: vastly behind GPT-4; more of a competitor to the Llamas. Read more...