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Geppetto's Workbench

I have created Geppetto’s Workbench over the weekend, to simplify working with the OpenAI Playground in several ways: defaults to GPT-4 sets parameters to encourage factual results (and curb hallucination & confabulation) declutters the UI Read more...

Claude

Some talk about Claude by Anthropic today, accessible through poe.com. Read more...

ChatGPT vs. OpenAI Playground

I got the question what the difference between the OpenAI Playground “in chat mode” and chat.openai.com is. So for everybody’s benefit, my answer reproduced below. If you’re not familiar at all, see this screenshot for what I am talking about: Read more...

ChatGPT blocked in Italy (but not whole OpenAI)

Alarming news from Italy: ChatGPT got blocked. After investigating the matter with my colleagues, I learned that only the ChatGPT product was affected, while other infrastructure parts remained accessible. We discovered that software creators and their customers who rely on OpenAI and its APIs, including GPT-4, are not affected by this block. In... Read more...

Early experiments with GPT-4

Microsoft Research paper: “Early experiments with GPT-4”. With ChatGPT Plus largely being vaporware at this point, this is a nice overview of what to reasonably expect. I haven’t finished it yet, but things worth pointing out: drawing vector graphics in LaTeX reverse prompting to retrieve up-to-date information from the web ... Read more...