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Is "Googleing dead" Are we now "AI-ing?" Anytime I would normally "Google" something to do my research I stop and ask what AI tool can do all of the research and "Googleing" for me and just give me the answer! Usually, the answer is Perplexity.ai or ChatGPT. Today, I needed to find a location between myself and my friend for a lunch meeting. I started to open up my Google Map to guess a city in between us - and then SLAPPED myself ... and opened up ChatGPT. Here's the prompt I used: I need help planning a lunch meeting. I need a place that serves Asian Fusion or Sushi / Japanese that is halfway between these two locations for travel time. Location 1: XXXXXXX Street, Atlanta, GA ZIP CODE Location 2: XXXXXXX Street, Cartersville GA ZIP CODE The result? Three amazing recommendations and LINKS to where I can see why it made that recommendation (Tripadvisor, etc.). ChatGPT did an amazing Bing search and mapped out the distance between the two locations... This would have probably taken me an hour to do by hand, with Google Maps, and Googleing. but instead, 23 seconds after I typed the prompts I had my recommendations! I saved myself 59 minutes and 37 seconds. ⏱ I love AI. What do you think? Are you "AI-ing" instead of "Googleing"? I'll tell you which spot we picked and how our lunch meeting went! I've uploaded a screenshot of the ChatGPT search result. In ChatGPT the words "quick search" are hyperlinked to the search it did in Bing!

Want to have your own ChatGPT? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Another great news in this busy AI week. Meta (Facebook) has launched Llama2, and it's free for commercial use. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Meaning? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You can now build your own ChatGPT. Just go ahead and download Llama2 on your own machine. You can customize it using your own data, e.g. customer reviews, essays, WhatsApp messages, pdfs or emails. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you've never heard of Llama2, it's similar to the brain behind ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and its performance is comparable to GPT-3. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Llama2 comes in two flavors: vanilla and chat. The vanilla version is more suitable for general stuff, e.g., writing poems, planning an itinerary, or drafting proposals and slides. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The "chat" flavor is, as the name says, more suitable for chat. It comes in different sizes so you can download it according to your machine's capability. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Meanwhile, you can play with it using Playground. Search for "Perplexity Llama2", "llama2 playground", or "a16z llama2". ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Have fun! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ p/s: If you want to know more about how to download, set up, and install your own Llama2, sign up for my newsletter in the first comment. I will share more tutorials and tips next week.

What is ChatGPT and why does it matter? Here's what you need to know This is the most helpful one of these so far. #GenAI #AI

You must have noticed it by now... "AI fatigue" is already a thing 😅 I think it's for 2 reasons: 1. Everyone wanted to surf on the AI hype wave last year 🏄♂️ A lot of new AI features and tools were just glorified ChatGPT wrappers or mostly gimmicks Many people were disappointed and annoyed by all the marketing announcements (still are today) 2. "AI" means nothing As of today, it's not "intelligent"; it's just very good at mimicking humans (LLM) or trained specifically for a narrow use case (ML) Don't get me wrong, it's extremely impressive already But the word "AI" makes people's expectations very high So far, the truly useful "AI" use cases I've found are: 👉 LLM for fixing my poorly written English (including this post) No more typos! (Almost) 👉 LLM for summarizing text Super useful, especially with PDFs, or user research 👉 LLM for programming It's a bit of a hit or miss right now, but it can be useful to explain a piece of code or to give you a starting point for something new But the most useful feature is by far GitHub Copilot autocompletion, saving tons of time! 👉 LLM / Perplexity.ai for broad research and Q/A on topics I'm still using Google every day, but ChatGPT is especially useful when I'm looking for something very specific, or to get a broad understanding of a topic 👉 Midjourney / Dall-E for generating images Need a quick illustration? Or a logo? In a specific style? It just works, and it's scary 👉 Semantic search (using vector databases) The ability to search a keyword like "friend", and get related words like "buddy", "soul mate", and "companion", makes the search 10x more powerful Even better, I can directly ask questions! 👉 Transcription models I remember 2 years ago most transcription services were not that accurate, and a lot of people kept manually transcribing their files But now, auto-transcription is a thing 👉 DLSS for gaming Big gain of performance with the same hardware and almost no quality loss? Literally a game-changer I'm curious, what's yours?

 Is ChatGPT now becoming the generic name for the entire class of LLMs? There are alternatives to ChatGPT as noted in the article below from #Computerworld. "The world of AI is changing incredibly fast — faster than any other category of technology in our lifetimes. And the promise and peril of the technology is overwhelming. All of us in the tech and business worlds need to approach it with a sense of adventure, learning, and experimentation. And don’t just stick to ChatGPT out of habit. "       - Are you actively investigating ChatGPT alternatives? - As the article suggests, would you categorize your approach as "a sense of adventure" ? - What are your thoughts? 

How well can ChatGPT identify the sentiment in a text? I publish a leaderboard which ranks the precision of various models in sentiment analysis. Check what's the position of ChatGPT! (link in first comment to enhance reach) A few remarks: ⦿ the model behind ChatGPT is actually called "gpt-3-turbo". This is the name used in the leaderboard. ⦿ what about gpt-4? Even through the API, I don't have access to gpt-4 yet. Probably coming in a few weeks. ⦿ it took 14 hours (!!) to run the test for gpt-3-turbo. There were 3,200 paragraphs to test, so that's ~ one paragraph analyzed every 15 seconds. The fastest models typically analyze 50 to 100 paragraphs *per second*. ⦿ it cost 80 cents to run the test on gpt-3-turbo. ⦿ the prompt makes a big difference. I tested two prompts for gpt-3-turbo, which I named "basic" and "advanced". Have a look at them! ⦿ in the leaderboard, you will see a model called "umigon". That is the one I created. Low tech, low resources, open source, fully explainable, fast and free. See how it ranks! ⦿ the leaderboard itself is also open source: the code to run the tests, to create the rankings, the logs, the prompts, the datasets. If you'd like to add a solution for sentiment analysis to the leaderboard, get in touch!

I keep telling myself I need to post on Linked In... It is the 1st - today is a good day to begin. I tend to prototype Agent prompts in ChatGPT 4o. Once I like the results I plug it into the LangChain or whatever thing I am doing... Today I wanted to prototype out a way to define a flowchart and set of state information so a LLM could follow the instructions, acting as the service provider for that flow chart. I chose AdventureLand as the example flowchart. I implemented it as a set of nodes, edges, conditions, functions, and state data - and then told ChatGPT to be silent except for the messages within the functions. Mostly this was an academic exercise, but I got the treasure... if you play with it, the AI understands "s", "go s", "south". It even understands "enter cave" to mean "go north". If uou have access to an email function you could implement a training questionnaire as a flowchart and include functions to log success/fail and send a summary email of things to work on, drop a file in a share to indicate a new training record is available... or create a flowchart to enter a support ticket for a product. This adds a new row to a spreadsheet... This approach allows you to easily produce flowchart functionality that requires user input. Since functions can do things like send emails, you have a very good platform for data collection. Here is an example I put together this afternoon. This is an "open to all" ChatGPT link. It is not editable, but feel free to continue the conversation: Type the word "Start" to begin, and enjoy a new look at something old. note: Linked In may add to the URL (if it doesn't work, try copy paste), and you will need a free account or better with OpenAI to use this. https://lnkd.in/gVq2cTpS

Sam Altman blog post you might have missed 👇 There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that we’ve made the best model in the world available for free in ChatGPT, without ads or anything like that. Our initial conception when we started OpenAI was that we’d create AI and use it to create all sorts of benefits for the world. Instead, it now looks like we’ll create AI and then other people will use it to create all sorts of amazing things that we all benefit from. We are a business and will find plenty of things to charge for, and that will help us provide free, outstanding AI service to (hopefully) billions of people. Second, the new voice (and video) mode is the best computer interface I’ve ever used. It feels like AI from the movies; and it’s still a bit surprising to me that it’s real. Getting to human-level response times and expressiveness turns out to be a big change. The original ChatGPT showed a hint of what was possible with language interfaces; this new thing feels viscerally different. It is fast, smart, fun, natural, and helpful. Talking to a computer has never felt really natural for me; now it does. As we add (optional) personalization, access to your information, the ability to take actions on your behalf, and more, I can really see an exciting future where we are able to use computers to do much more than ever before. Finally, huge thanks to the team that poured so much work into making this happen!

How are you changing your behaviour to build useful AI habits? One of the behaviours I am changing is Google search. I find myself heading there to search because it's so ingrained in me. Part way through typing I remember my Google habit and stop I copy and paste my search and head from Google and head to ChatGPT or Perplexity AI Perplexity AI for more thoughtful research based search ChatGPT for any other search - random stuff too, like 'how do I get a comb out of my daughter's hair, she has twisted it round and round and is beginning to panic!' My temptation to head for the scissors was step 4, in a far more considered 4 step plan created by ChatGPT +++++++++++++++++++ I can't remember the last time I completed a search on Google

Ever wondered which AI tool is the real game-changer for writers? 🤖💡 Well, let's put an end to this Bing, ChatGPT, or Bard clash! Bing AI: 🚀 The transformation in the last two months is mind-blowing! Now hitting over 90% accuracy, it's become my go-to for reliable data. 📊📈 ChatGPT: 👾 Perfect for factual content, though a bit heavy on repetitive vocab like 'game-changer,' 'breeze,' and whatnot. But with a sprinkle of your personal touch, it's golden! ✨(trust me, without humanizing content, you can't expect your readers to connect with you, be it Bard or GPT). Google Bard: 😞 A bit of a letdown in the info department, but it does shine in creating that conversational flair for descriptions. If I ask it to provide me 7 features of any software, say live chat, it will only come up with 2 or 3, that too with such confidence that you yourself will start doubting your prompt.🗣️📝 My winning combo? Bing + Chat GPT! 🌐💬Your dynamic duo for creating content that packs a punch! Just remember to sprinkle in that human touch to truly connect with your readers.✍️ Notice that 'game-changer' in the intro? Any guesses about the tool I used for this post? 😜 Note: Bing is now powered by ChatGPT 4 😁 #contentwriting #ai #contentcreation