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... 17 Apr 2023 - 2 minute read
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... 14 Apr 2023 - less than 1 minute read
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... 14 Apr 2023 - less than 1 minute read
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... 06 Apr 2023 - 1 minute read
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... 05 Apr 2023 - 1 minute read