It’s been a month and a half since my last thread, and just today we passed 5,000 subscribers on The Algorithmic Bridge!!! We’re growing reaaally fast and I’m super thankful for your support, engagement, and appreciation!!
As always, this week has been full of AI news and events. But, even with NeurIPS 2022 ongoing, ChatGPT has clearly overshadowed everything else. I covered the news on OpenAI’s latest model here.
I won’t do a WYMHM today, but don’t worry, next week I’ll include what I’m leaving out this week. I’ll take this opportunity—and the fact that we’ve crossed the 5K subs mark!—to do another AMA session and welcome all new subscribers.
As always, you can ask me about AI (current trends, predictions, companies, models, etc.), writing, Substack, my background, future plans, thoughts on any topic… whatever! Of course, you can also ask me about ChatGPT and GPT-4.
So, bring in the questions. I’ll try to answer all of them!
How do you think OpenAI and others will address the challenges of AI hallucinations? It's really difficult to evaluate the correctness of an answer in an area with which you're not familiar.
Also, on a related note, why is ChatGPT able to acknowledge and correct its own mistakes? The other day I asked it a particular question about the size of packages that fall under a certain USPS shipping class, and one thing it told me was that the maximum weight was 13oz. I happen to know this is wrong, and it's 15oz. I said this to it, and it immediately agreed and stopped making the mistake. This behavior just seems bizarre...
I'm curious to learn how one trains GPTChat to be knowledgable about a specific domain of knowledge for personal (or business) use. Generally speaking I believe GPTChat can be taught using Reinforcement Learning via Human Feedback - with prompts. That's all very exciting but there are always tons of little specific details for specialized use of knowledge. So how does one do this specifically? I realize there is no single answer yet or single tool (I'm assuming here). I just want to understand the process better and see which groups or vendors are offering this kind of service.
Newbie here and asking perhaps a very basic question.
Is there any open source best-in-business speech-to-text AI in the wild? DALL-E has set the gold standard for text-to-image, but beyond Siri, Alexa or Google Voice, which are all proprietary, I am not aware of any open source tools for speech-to-text.
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I am interested in knowing what specific applications society is finding for generative AI and what the second- and third- order consequences of those might be. It is easy to imagine that every advertising agency in the world is going to want access to the technology, but harder to see the staffing and payroll implications. It is hard for me to see how the porn sector as we know it today will survive. The examples are legion.
If you heard about Bittensor, what do you think about an incentivized decentralized AI Hivemind? The platform enables users to train, test, and deploy AI models on the blockchain, and rewards contributors with tokens based on the performance and adoption of their models. We can co-own, co-run, and thus align the intelligence layer while creating a censorship resistant AI.
Congratulations on hitting 5,000 Alberto! I expect much success for you. I've been in and around web and email publishing for 27 years and as best I can tell, you're doing everything right, as your growing fan base would seem to prove. I find your enthusiasm and professionalism inspiring. It appears I'll be starting my own substack, and I'll be looking to you as a role model of how to go about it.
Ask you a question. Cool feature. Hmm...
QUESTION: What do you see to be the most likely outcome of humanity obtaining ever more, ever larger powers, at an ever accelerating rate?
This seems to be the path we've been on for at least a century, and AI appears likely to further accelerate the process, just as computers, and then the Internet have. Do you see any limit to this progression?
Take it from there in any direction that interests you. Thanks!
No worries - thanks for letting me know. I see no place to take a real problem and be at least pushed into right direction - doable or not, what to look at that can solve it. You do understand the problem I tried to solve though, right?
Can you make a dedicated one post covering everything exciting and different from GPT-4? Heard it’s gonna be extraordinary, but no idea how. Tell us something which helps clear the excitement.
Thread #6: Ask Me Anything (AMA)
Do you think OpenAI will become more of a competitor than a supplier for the many creative utilities/app companies that exist in the market today?
How do you think OpenAI and others will address the challenges of AI hallucinations? It's really difficult to evaluate the correctness of an answer in an area with which you're not familiar.
Also, on a related note, why is ChatGPT able to acknowledge and correct its own mistakes? The other day I asked it a particular question about the size of packages that fall under a certain USPS shipping class, and one thing it told me was that the maximum weight was 13oz. I happen to know this is wrong, and it's 15oz. I said this to it, and it immediately agreed and stopped making the mistake. This behavior just seems bizarre...
I'm curious to learn how one trains GPTChat to be knowledgable about a specific domain of knowledge for personal (or business) use. Generally speaking I believe GPTChat can be taught using Reinforcement Learning via Human Feedback - with prompts. That's all very exciting but there are always tons of little specific details for specialized use of knowledge. So how does one do this specifically? I realize there is no single answer yet or single tool (I'm assuming here). I just want to understand the process better and see which groups or vendors are offering this kind of service.
Newbie here and asking perhaps a very basic question.
Is there any open source best-in-business speech-to-text AI in the wild? DALL-E has set the gold standard for text-to-image, but beyond Siri, Alexa or Google Voice, which are all proprietary, I am not aware of any open source tools for speech-to-text.
There has been a lot of chatter around Text and Image generative AI.
Are there good video generative models? If yes, could you please spend sometime on introducing these models.
The world of user engagement has moved to short videos.
I am interested in knowing what specific applications society is finding for generative AI and what the second- and third- order consequences of those might be. It is easy to imagine that every advertising agency in the world is going to want access to the technology, but harder to see the staffing and payroll implications. It is hard for me to see how the porn sector as we know it today will survive. The examples are legion.
If you heard about Bittensor, what do you think about an incentivized decentralized AI Hivemind? The platform enables users to train, test, and deploy AI models on the blockchain, and rewards contributors with tokens based on the performance and adoption of their models. We can co-own, co-run, and thus align the intelligence layer while creating a censorship resistant AI.
Thank you Alberto. Very helpful. Keep posting your thought provoking and highly informative posts. I'm finding them very helpful.
Will transformer models be the dominant AI model in the near future?
What do you think is the most important skill a fifteen year old should be learning right now?
Congratulations on hitting 5,000 Alberto! I expect much success for you. I've been in and around web and email publishing for 27 years and as best I can tell, you're doing everything right, as your growing fan base would seem to prove. I find your enthusiasm and professionalism inspiring. It appears I'll be starting my own substack, and I'll be looking to you as a role model of how to go about it.
Ask you a question. Cool feature. Hmm...
QUESTION: What do you see to be the most likely outcome of humanity obtaining ever more, ever larger powers, at an ever accelerating rate?
This seems to be the path we've been on for at least a century, and AI appears likely to further accelerate the process, just as computers, and then the Internet have. Do you see any limit to this progression?
Take it from there in any direction that interests you. Thanks!
Hi Alberto!
Thanks for the great AI-related content. Appreciate every post of yours. I have a writing related question for you.
How long have you been working on this newsletter? And approximately how much time did you spend before things started picking up?
How do you see generative AI being used collaboratively where one user adds value to the other?
No worries - thanks for letting me know. I see no place to take a real problem and be at least pushed into right direction - doable or not, what to look at that can solve it. You do understand the problem I tried to solve though, right?
Hi Alberto,
Can you make a dedicated one post covering everything exciting and different from GPT-4? Heard it’s gonna be extraordinary, but no idea how. Tell us something which helps clear the excitement.
Thanks, Satinder.
Hi Alberto, Maybe it is a very basic question but if you can give some iideas what to look at to start - https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/z07o4c/comment/iyb4iuf