Office 365 copilot is extremely impressive

Microsoft recently held an event where they announced the "Office 365 Copilot". It was extremely impressive to me, to the extent that (when this launches) I

21 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Your non-AI moat

"What's the Moat of your AI company?" That seems to be top of mind for founders pitching their novel idea to VCs -- and

15 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

GPT-4, race, and applications

GPT-4 came out yesterday and overshadowed announcements, each of which would have been bombshell news otherwise: * Anthropic AI announcing their ChatGPT-like API -- likely the strongest competitor to

15 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Alpaca is not as cheap as you think

"Alpaca is just $100 and competitive with InstructGPT" -- takes like this are going around Twitter, adding to the (generally justified!) hype around AI models. It

14 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Chain-of-thought reasoning

Matt Rickard has a concise overview of Chain-of-thought: the design pattern of having an LLM think step by step. To summarize, the four mentioned approaches from simpler to

13 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Define a vector space with words

I've been experimenting with embedding ideas into GPT-space, and using the resulting vectors to visualize. For example, you could plot different activities based on two axes:

12 Mar 2023 · 3 min read

AI product overhang

There is a massive AI overhang today. The term is analogous to snow overhang. When snow slides down a roof, sometimes a section goes over the edge and

9 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Self-driving apps

There's a now-famous classification of different levels of self-driving: * Level 0: No automation * Level 1: Driver assistance * Level 2: Partial automation * Level 3: Conditional automation (human

8 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Text is the interface, not the use case

Probably 80% of (mainstream, non-ML) Twitter is excited about the potential of GPT and ChatGPT. The other 20% is skeptical. Few are indifferent. But both the optimists and

7 Mar 2023 · 1 min read

Prototyping with GPT API is fun

I've built around 10 prototypes with GPT over the past couple weeks and it's surprisingly fun. Why is that? Obviously it's a

6 Mar 2023 · 1 min read