Diverse AI Topics: Pitch Decks, Education, Employment, and Applications

April 23, 2023

Anthropics pitch deck

OpenAI’s John Schulman gave an interesting talk at Berkeley last week on why RLHF was needed to get the instruct models to behave nicely.

First instance of an Indian politician referring to deepfakes / audio synthesis?

course.fast.ai for being able to make sense of all of this — even as it changes in 2-3 months and we add VQA (Vision) to mainstream OpenAI APIs
Lot of new work should come from STT and TTS side, including performance improvements like Whisper-JAX in the coming 4-6 month and more important, voice cloning, avatars and the like. They should have their own “Lensa moment” as such if someone markets it well.
if i had to recommend a course to cover the NLP hands-on with theory - https://www.udemy.com/course/nlp-with-transformers/
You can still pretty affordable (about $2/mo) instances on Fly.io
If there’s anyone interested, Mckay Wrigley is starting a course on Replit on AI dev. The advanced stuff is coming soon but here’s the day 0 course. https://twitter.com/mckaywrigley/status/1649492404943323136

controlnet Inpaint guidelines for A1111. https://github.com/Mikubill/sd-webui-controlnet/issues/968 [PHONE REMOVED] you can try out with this and let me know how it is working for you.

From the author of controlnet repo: Hi everyone! Shreyas here, I’m a product designer at Clari working on revGPT, a chat interface to get on top of everything happening with sales in an organisation ( and a few personal projects:) ). I saw this tweet by the guy who made BabyAGI, with a new approach to vector search & embeddings: https://twitter.com/yoheinakajima/status/1650049673770725378?s=46&t=WT1iAtjftW-5_e62F8FZTg
https://yoheinakajima.com/asymmetrix-asymmetric-vector-embeddings-for-directional-similarity-search/

what are some places to hire tech folks interested in GenAI? understanding of how GenAI works and the nuances of embeddings, text processing
This WhatsApp group 🙈
I hear OpenAI has some decent folks
should have a job board :)
How about a board that takes natural language input from job seekers and start-ups and matches them? Does something like this exist? Shouldn’t be hard to build one.
Looking to hire folks as well - full time or part time! Job board would be ideal

I knew tokens used for non English languages is different but looking at the OpenAI bills, it gave me a shock. Some Asian languages take a lot more - is there a comparsion somewhere?
I haven’t come across a lang2lang comparison. But openAi has a tokenizer you can use to estimate tokens and build a comparison set.
For tokenization and word embeddings to reduce cost, you may like to use Sentence Transformers / [ something like that ] and pass the Embeddings to OpenAI for completion
They’re also building foundation models
[PHONE REMOVED] has built a wrapper around openai tiktoken to count tokens in a file or text -

I was trying to generate an image of “a key ring with the OpenAI logo on it”
u can use ControlNet canny model https://huggingface.co/spaces/hysts/ControlNet, just start with the openai logo, select the canny model and give the promptt
This was controlnet only btw, both canny and hed boundary worked well (you can change that in settings)

Anyone working on open domain Q&A type problems or ones which make use of retreievers/dense embeddings?
Yes I am. My product helps businesses set this up for internal function (esp. customer service and customer success).
Oh cool, can you share what kind of models and retrieval algorithms you are using?