With the unexpected release of its advanced language model, LLaMA 2, Meta has opened up new avenues for commercial and research applications. Unlike its predecessor, this second iteration of the model is (primarily) free and open-source. 🧑💻 Recommended: Llama 2: How Meta’s Free Open-Source LLM Beats GPT-4! The source code and data that forms the … Read more
The universal basic income (UBI) in Worldcoin isn’t directly funded by the Worldcoin Protocol but will eventually require a separate funding source, such as a share of profits from an AI Lab. There’s no guarantee or explicit sustainable protocol rule. However, the Worldcoin Whitepaper envisions the possibility to set a 1.5% annual inflation rate, essentially … Read more
Executive Summary Before we dive into Med-PaLM 2, let’s learn about the underlying technology: PaLM 2: 👇 What Is PaLM 2? Google’s PaLM 2 is a next-generation language model with enhanced multilingual understanding, reasoning, and coding capabilities. The Advent of PaLM 2 We recently published an article about the fact that Google actually developed the … Read more
As a parent, you might be wondering about the optimal screen time for your kids according to their age. Balancing technology use and the development of your children is essential, and it’s crucial to understand what screen time guidelines are best supported by science. Research has found that for children younger than 2 years, it’s … Read more
There has been a lot of drama on Twitter about the new Stanford UC Berkely collab paper titled “How Is ChatGPT’s Behavior Changing over Time?” (source) The paper’s authors selectively provide examples where newer versions of GPT-4 seem to perform “worse” and have “formatting mistakes” than older versions. The first evaluation they provide is the … Read more
Meta (formerly Facebook) has released Llama 2, a new large language model (LLM) that is trained on 40% more training data and has twice the context length, compared to its predecessor Llama. Llama 2 is open-source so researchers and hobbyist can build their own applications on top of it. Llama 2 is trained on a … Read more
The paper “LongNet: Scaling Transformers to 1,000,000,000 tokens” presents a machine learning breakthrough, particularly in handling and analyzing large amounts of text data. Simply put, this paper is about a new model called LongNet that can understand and analyze really long strings of text – up to 1 billion words or phrases, called “tokens,” at … Read more
The new Claude 2 model from AI research company Anthropic has proved insane new capabilities. In this quick article, I’ll give you a short and concise overview of what you need to know. Claude 2 Overview Anthropic’s latest prodigy, Claude 2, is making waves. This AI language model, part of the Claude series, is a … Read more
I just read one of the most influential papers titled “Prompt Programming for Large Language Models: Beyond the Few-Shot Paradigm” by Gwern Branwen, Connor Leahy, and Alexander Turner that first introduced prompt programming, a predecessor of today’s multi-six-figure skill prompt engineering. This short excursion in prompting history will be valuable for improving your prompting skills … Read more
Executive Summary This article summarizes a recent research paper titled Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-assisted medical education using large language models to examine how ChatGPT performs in the USMLE, a comprehensive US-based medical examination. 🔗 Quote: “medical students often spend approximately 300–400 hours of dedicated study time in preparation for this exam” … Read more
In a recent interaction with one of my Discord Mastermind Group members, I learned about an interesting paper from Microsoft Research, GitHub Research, and MIT School of Management titled “The Impact of AI on Developer Prodcutivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot”. In this short article, allow me to give you the TLDR. 👇 💡 TL;DR: The … Read more
The Future of Jobs Survey 2023 comprises responses from 803 companies across 27 industries and 45 economies, employing over 11.3 million workers. Key findings from the report are: The data source and report are available at the World Economic Forum website here. Let’s have a look at the most interesting graphs and charts from the … Read more