Artificial Intelligence
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Have Your Cake and Eat It With ChatGPT’s Interim Privacy Settings
OpenAI, the organization behind the breakthrough AI chatbot ChatGPT, has recently introduced new data controls (see their Data Controls FAQ). These options, designed to give users more power over their privacy, allow for turning off chat history storage while also preventing conversations from being used to train OpenAI’s AI models. There’s a single shared toggle…
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The Delicate Dance of Safety and Utility in AI: A Lesson from the Kitchen
Choosing the Right Tool: Butter Knives to Butcher’s Cleavers In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), choosing the right AI model for a task is akin to choosing the right knife for a culinary job in a kitchen. Each knife, from the harmless butter knife to the robust butcher’s cleaver, has its unique role and…
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Anthropic’s Claude 2 – A Leap Forward In Contextual Understanding
Anthropic’s recently updated flagship AI offering, Claude 2, comes with a promise to redefine the landscape of large language models, boasting a dramatic increase in context window size to a staggering 100k tokens. While the AI industry has been abuzz with excitement over this development, it’s important to delve deeper and understand its implications, both…
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Review — Generative AI: Working with Large Language Models
I recently reviewed “Generative AI: Working with Large Language Models” by Jonathan Fernandes, which provided a solid overview of the evolution of popular large language models. While the course material is already a bit outdated given advances like OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 that have come out since — the author subsequently released a separate course…