end-of-year ai activities for 2023

programming note: we will be back to our usual ai things in January

and a special thanks to adam for his expertise, advice, and support of this and all those ai things

📚 READ

• The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma, by Mustafa Suleyman, with Michael Bhaskar   Bookshop

• The Maniac, by Benjamín Labatut   Bookshop

  • via adam, a New York Times review

🖊️ PROMPTING

• The Power of Prompting Microsoft Research Blog

• Prompt Engineering Specialization Vanderbilt University, Coursera

📟 UNDERSTANDING TECHNICAL CONCEPTS

• Intro to Large Language Models (59:47)   Andrej Karpathy, YouTube

• Generative AI for Beginners Microsoft, Github

• via adam, LLM Visualization — Visualize the journey of a sequence of letters through an LLM

🚧 DIY

• llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer Simon Willison’s Blog

  • github link

  • works well enough that you’d think about opening a new browser window for quick requests

  • installation on a mac was painless

• Building and Evaluating Advanced RAG Applications Deep Learning.ai

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Exactly - AI for Artists

  • works better than expected

  • free tier is sufficient