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Examining generative AI—not to hype breakthroughs or warn of apocalypse, but to understand how things actually work. Mental models over hot takes. Technology specifics over marketing fog.
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Description: AI agents from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic promise to act on your behalf—booking flights, handling tasks, making decisions. What kind of agency do these systems actually have? And whose interests are they serving? Enterprise AI agents are already deployed in customer support, code generation, and task automation. Consumer agents—ChatGPT Agent Mode, personal task assistants—face a wider gap between marketing promises and actual capabilities. The alignment problem: agents need ac...
With great power comes great responsibility. How do leading AI companies implement safety and ethics as language models scale? OpenAI uses Model Spec combined with RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback). Anthropic uses Constitutional AI. The technical approaches to maximizing usefulness while minimizing harm. Solo episode on AI alignment. REFERENCE OpenAI Model Spec https://cdn.openai.com/spec/model-spec-2024-05-08.html#overview Anthropic Constitutional AI https://www.anthropic.co...
Notable open source large language models from Meta, French AI company Mistral (valued at $2B), Microsoft, and Apple. Not all open source models are equally open—the restrictions and licensing constraints you need to know before deploying one. Solo episode. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
Why enterprises and entrepreneurs choose open source LLMs like Meta's Llama—cost-effectiveness, control, privacy, and security. The safety and ethics debate: which poses greater risk to humanity, open source or proprietary AI models? Both? Neither? Solo episode on open source LLMs. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
Beyond ChatGPT and Gemini: Anthropic's Claude and the $4 billion Amazon investment. How AI industry benchmarks work, including LMSYS Arena Elo and MMLU (Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding). How benchmarks are constructed, what they measure, and how to use them to evaluate LLMs. Solo episode. Anthropic's Claude https://claude.ai [Note: I am not sponsored by Anthropic] LMSYS Leaderboard https://chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at ht...
Recent updates from Google and OpenAI feature multimodal capabilities—AI that processes multiple input types simultaneously. Why multimodal models outperform single-modality systems, demonstrated through a hypothetical chatCAT that helps owners understand their cats. Solo episode on multimodal architecture. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
Google's Gemini family of multimodal AI models compared to OpenAI equivalents. What Nano, Pro, and Ultra each do, how they compare to GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and ChatGPT, and what "multimodal" means in practice. Solo episode on Google's LLM strategy. https://gemini.google.com. (Note: I am not sponsored by Google.) To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
Creating a travel planning AI using OpenAI's GPT Builder with no code. Seven takeaways from building a custom GPT, what the process reveals about prompt engineering, and the constraints of the no-code approach. Includes demonstration of the Holiday travel GPT. Solo episode. You'll need to be Open AI Plus subscriber to access this GPT. (Note: I am not sponsored by Open AI.) https://chatgpt.com/g/g-FURrBQAh8-holiday To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt....
Deploying large language models for enterprise applications. Rackspace CTO Jeff DeVerter discusses implementing Google PaLM for sales, enabling Azure and AWS customers, and why your LLM choice should probably match your cloud provider. Private cloud deployment for data confidentiality and thinking in data pipelines from the start. Featuring Jeff DeVerter, Rackspace Technology. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
How is generative AI changing teaching, learning, and evaluation? Yale's Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs Alfred Guy discusses the university's AI guidance and its implications for education. What educators are grappling with, and how institutions are adapting. Featuring Alfred Guy, Yale College. Yale's AI guidance is published online here: https://poorvucenter.yale.edu/AIguidance To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
Creating a science fiction blockbuster pitch using ChatGPT power prompts: Role Play, Chain of Thought, and Self Critique. How these techniques improve output, and the AI-related issues at stake in the 2023 Writers and Actors Strike. Solo episode on generative AI and creative work. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
Ask ChatGPT if it possesses human-like intelligence and you'll get a definitive "NO"—unusual for a system that typically provides balanced perspectives. This guardrail reveals the ethical concerns OpenAI built into the system. What those concerns are, and whether Isaac Asimov's 80-year-old Robot Laws still apply. Solo episode. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
Does ChatGPT have a sense of humor? We test whether it would find an Onion headline funny: "Microsoft renames ChatGPT to ClippyChat." Large language models are better at analyzing humor than creating it—here's why. Solo episode exploring AI and comedy. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
How do you extract prohibited information from ChatGPT? Grandma and DAN exploits trick language models into violating their own policies. Why these techniques work, what they reveal about LLM architecture, and how companies protect against prompt injection attacks. Solo episode on LLM security. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
What are AI hallucinations, and should we consider them bugs or features? The top 10 categories of AI hallucinations with examples, how ChatGPT might hallucinate an answer about Blade Runner, and ChatGPT debating itself on whether hallucinations help or harm humanity. Solo episode. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
Why isn't Superman's suit Kryptonite-proof? This question reveals how large language models are trained. We break down transformers (the T in GPT), self-attention mechanisms, and the inference process—using Superman to explain why GPT-3 can generate coherent answers to questions it's never seen before. Solo episode on LLM architecture. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
How do ChatGPT, GPT-3, and Large Language Models relate to each other? We explore the hierarchy: artificial intelligence, neural networks, large language models, GPT-3, and ChatGPT. What each term means, how they connect, and why the order matters. Solo episode for AI newcomers. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
How would you describe ChatGPT in your own words? This solo episode provides definition and context for newcomers to AI. I answer the question myself, then ask ChatGPT to evaluate my answer. Introduction to what ChatGPT is, how it works, and where it fits in the AI landscape. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
Why is it so hard to get DALL-E to create the exact image you envision? PhD candidate and entrepreneur Arijit Ray discusses generative AI constraints, and his startup training AI to predict social media responses and run marketing focus groups. From scientist to entrepreneur. Featuring Arijit Ray, Boston University. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
AI that screens for diseases like COVID-19 based on voice patterns. Speaking a simple phrase into your phone, the system analyzes your voice profile for respiratory illness, and can be trained for conditions ranging from obesity to substance use. How voice biomarkers work and what this means for health screening. Featuring Mario Arancibia, CTO and entrepreneur. To stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.superprompt.fm
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