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Visual GPT

Visual GPT, the multi-modal interface that a German Microsoft manager likely referred to in their earlier hints, has been released as source code: Github. And it’s a bit disappointing… at least when running on CPUs only, rather than GPUs. Read more...

Open Source LLMs

Entire language models are being pirated and touted as “Open Source”. This includes Vicuna, which has been making headlines as “90% quality of OpenAI ChatGPT” (which is B.S.). This illustration by Sahar Mor makes a distinction between “Research” and “Commercial”, and “Research” partially implies “legally tainted” (may also be true for ⚡ Lit-LlaM... Read more...

Training LLMs

From the Amazon (pre-)announcement of Bedrock: One of the most important capabilities of Bedrock is how easy it is to customize a model. Customers simply point Bedrock at a few labeled examples in Amazon S3, and the service can fine-tune the model for a particular task without having to annotate large volumes of data (as few as 20 examples is... Read more...

Samsung warns against ChatGPT

On the Techspot article that “Samsung warns fab employees of ChatGPT after confidential data leaks”: this reporting lacks context, so I’ll dispense… Read more...

Developer talk

Sparked by a blog post by Github on Copilot productivity enhancements and developer happiness, there was lively reflection on LLMs as a developer tool. One developer brought up the error scenario where ChatGPT would get stuck in a conversation loop. As a remedy, I offered this advice: sometimes it feels like it’s cornered and can’t get out. In s... Read more...