Machine Learning

The “spirit” is right; the body has many flaws Last Tuesday, I received from the Future of Life Institute an email asking me to sign a petition to pause giant AI experiments. When I signed the letter, the organizers asked us to keep it confidential until its publication moment arrived…

More than 1,000 technology experts, researchers and investors have signed an open letter expressly asking for a six-month halt to the creation of “giant AI systems” citing “profound risks to society.” But anybody who works in technology will already know that this request cannot be met. It’s a fantasy to…

It’s 1960 all over again — In a recent study, the University of Pennsylvania and OpenAI investigated the potential impact of large language models (LLM), such as GPT models, on various jobs. GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models (Eloundou et al., 2023) Their main finding is…

Use prompt engineering to analyze your documents with langchain and openai in a ChatGPT-like way — ChatGPT is definitely one of the most popular Large Language Models (LLMs). Since the release of its beta version at the end of 2022, everyone can use the convenient chat function to ask questions or interact with the language model. But what if we would like to ask ChatGPT questions…

ChatGPT’s plugin makes data science an easy, enjoyable experience — I saved maybe 4–5 hours if I had manually done it. Okay, so here’s the scoop: I’ve been curious about economic trends in for a while now, especially inflation. You know, the whole deal with prices going up and stuff. But I had this problem, I needed a way to…