Archive of posts with category 'llm'

Posting llm-generated content as your own is hurting you

Posting llm-generated content as your own is hurting you

Seriously, don’t publish that raw ChatGPT’d thinkfluencer piece as your own. Nobody’s falling for it, everybody’s doing it, and you’re cheating yourself.

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Running large language models (LLM) locally on your Mac using OLLAMA

Running large language models (LLM) locally on your Mac using OLLAMA

This is an introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) and an instruction to running them locally on a Mac using OLLAMA.

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Software infrastructure and databases workshop for interns and new engineers

Software infrastructure and databases workshop for interns and new engineers

This is the syllabus I originally designed to train Hack.diversity fellows for a 8-week workship (1 hour weekly classes, 2 hours of expected assignment load) to help them perform well on their internship/co-op interviews. I’ve worked on this with the engineer I mentor with the organization, and will be proposing...
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LLM's will be the next spellcheck assistant, not the next robotic overlords!

LLM's will be the next spellcheck assistant, not the next robotic overlords!

I’ve changed my opinion on genAI and LLM’s a few times now. As technology, politics, and economics around these technologies change, my beliefs have evolved. In this essay I propose that generative AI will be mostly a collaborative revolution. Generative models can magnify human abilities and make collaboration easier. We...
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What's next for AI? My predictions for the next 10 years

What's next for AI? My predictions for the next 10 years

Explainable AI, optical AI, analog AI, and meta-learning. I predict the culmination of optimizing massive generative models will result generative AI being turned into a commodity, and these four areas will be the next frontiers of innovation in machine learning.

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The risk of production, customer-facing LLM's let lose

The risk of production, customer-facing LLM's let lose

Readers of technology-adjacent news might remember the recent case where a Canadian passenger, Jake Moffatt, sued Air Canada after its online chatbot misinformed him about bereavement fares, costing him hundreds of dollars? Air Canada ended up losing the case, and now must stand by the commitment made by its AI...
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