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Google’s Gemini 1.5 was announced but not yet widely available. It has a 1M token context window, which is enough to handle several books and more. Summary from Zvi
To use the larger context window, you’ll need AI Studio (I joined the waitlist)
Gemini Advanced is part of the Google One Premium Plan and costs $19/month. It includes 2TB of storage.
Hugging Face Chat is an open-source competitor to ChatGPT. It’s not as good, obviously, but it correctly analyzed some R code and it gave the same unbiased caveats “As a large language model…” on questions about Donald Trump and Joe Biden)
Strange Loop Canon explains why it’s hard to evaluate LLMs: the same reason it’s hard to make a general-purpose way to Evaluations are all we need
Snap’s My AI chatbot is the most widely used AI tool by 7-to 17-year-olds in the UK.
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An informal twitter survey by David Song on the near-term development interests among AI users:
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Tyler Cowen’s GPT-4 interview with Jonathan Swift is a neat idea but results are oddly unsatisfying. Pretty clear it’s a bot, and not just because the transcript is read with too much formality. Answers are, well, robotic. The bot shows no awareness of the host or the present context. Cmon, how could The real JS would have tailored his answer to the times. This reads like an undergrad essay exercise.
SchoolXpress lets you make your own AI-conversational book by uploading your content.
Make your own GPTs with https://chat.openai.com/create
AWS has a Hugging Face Page that includes Amazon Sagemaker integrations with Mistral and more.
PromptPack Chantal Smith explains how to use GPT for knowledge management in Notion (and Notion AI):
He generates a database with pages that include sources and properties (link to the article, along with AI summaries). He has two AI auto-fill properties: a 5-bullet summary and a short 1-2 sentences on why it’s relevant.
References and Todo Followup
The Generalist lengthy summary of AI startups Jul 2023
TheNeuron lists the 27 top AI applications for business
Lamini: a tailored (private) LLM engine
Jay Alammar: The Illustrated GPT-2 (Visualizing Transformer Language Models)…