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... 12 Jul 2023 - 1 minute read
Non-uniform performance reported for in-context learning: How Language Models Use Long Contexts: Read more... 10 Jul 2023 - 1 minute read
GPT-4 API was just made generally available, and: Read more... 07 Jul 2023 - 1 minute read
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... 01 Jul 2023 - less than 1 minute read
First glance at & hands-on Aleph Alpha, the German competitor of OpenAI: Read more... 29 Jun 2023 - 2 minute read