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GPTs: What are they good for?
It's easy to make a custom chat bot, but the killer app is elusive.
Nov 17, 2023
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October 2023
What do we want from AI?
Or, what I've been up to all year.
Oct 30, 2023
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December 2022
OpenAI comes clean about GPT 3.5
Instruction tuning is the future, but the delay in launching RLHF via PPO suggests it is finicky in practice. Practitioners will likely need to stick to…
Dec 2, 2022
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November 2022
Thank You Paid Subscribers!
An invitation to guide the future of this newsletter
Nov 22, 2022
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The Near Future of AI is Action-Driven
…and it will look a lot like AGI. LLMs can become extremely powerful by leveraging external cognitive assets and choosing actions.
Nov 15, 2022
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October 2022
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This is Causal Deference, a newsletter about navigating the most important century.
Oct 26, 2022
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