weekend ai reads for 2023-09-22

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: PROGRAMMING WITH LLMs

• How to build and deploy AI/ML systems Artificial Intelligence Made Simple, Substack

  • Dr. Chris Walton, Senior Applied Science Manager at Amazon, gives a detailed overview of how AI/ML development is different from conventional development

  • covers: AI/ML Management, Science Management, Engineering Management, and expectations management

• 4 lessons from launching an LLM chatbot MQube

  • detailed discussion

• Against LLM maximalism Explosion Blog

• via adam, Why Open Source AI Will Win Public Experiments, Substack

• Building the Future with LLMOps: The Main Challenges MLOps Community

📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Tracey Follows (source) [Google Drive, PDF]

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS & CULTURE

• Generative AI Exists because of the Transformer Financial Times (no paywall)

  • good web design and good writing always get to the top of the list

  • better-than-average explainer on how LLMs work

• Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier — I think we have an answer on whether AIs will reshape work....   One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick), Substack

  • biggest takeaway: bottom half of performers had larger gains than top half (+43% v +17%)

  • related (1), ‘There is no work to balance’: how shrinking budgets, Covid and AI shook up life in consulting Financial Times

  • related (2), Reskilling in the Age of AI Harvard Business Review

• The Atlantic’s Guide to Privacy The Atlantic

  • recommendations for wherever you are on your privacy journey

  • related, Your Gmail and Instagram are training AI. There’s little you can do about it. Washington Post

• AI Regulation — There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.   Elad Gil

• Time 100 AI Time Magazine

  • Leaders, Innovators, Shapers, and Thinkers

🎓 EDUCATION

• Boredom Begets Boredom: An Experience Sampling Study on the Impact of Teacher Boredom on Student Boredom and Motivation National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

  • not AI-related but Education is rarely represented in the Ig Noble Awards

• The AI Ate My Homework, and My Schoolwork Too — Artificial intelligence is changing not only the way students learn, but also what kind of knowledge is important.   Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg Opinions

  • a friend on Tyler Cowen: “He’s probably the most convincing person that I often disagree with”

• As educators embrace AI, debate shifts to bias and equity concerns The Hill

• Simulating History with ChatGPT Res Obscura

  • on using generative AI in history class

• AI Can Solve an Algebra Equation in Seconds. Here’s How Math Teachers Can Adapt Education Week

• Outschool launches an AI-powered tool to help teachers write progress reports Tech Crunch

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• LLMs, RAG, & the missing storage layer for AI LanceDB

  • related, The Advantages of RAG AI (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Over Generative AI for Financial Services Auquan

• via adam, Distilling step-by-step: Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller model sizes Google Blog

• Get a Rabbit London Review of Books

  • long read (6,500 words) on role of data and policy in the UK

  • statistics reveal the failures of government to make bold decisions and voters to accept hard truths, despite data showing what must be done

• via adam, From Sparse to Dense: GPT-4 Summarization with Chain of Density Prompting arXiv

  • sample ChatGPT prompt from Ethan Mollick

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

• Happy Aiccidents happy_aiccidents, Instagram

  • delightful images

• Data Commons, now with chat interface

  • thanks, Google

• I Am Chatting in a Room

  • AI-powered Edward de Bono’s “hat” theory of creativity

  • the “hats” are different rooms that generate new ideas, process ideas, look for positives, and surface facts

  • this is a terrible description — just try it

• Indian actor Anil Kapoor wins court battle over AI use of his likeness The Guardian

• Visus — Create your own ChatGPT AI

  • generous free tier

  • unclear Effects of Termination in their Terms of Use, so only tested with sample data (disclaimer: not legal advice)

• AI is policing the package theft beat for UPS as ‘porch piracy’ surge continues across U.S. CNBC

  • using algorithms to provide “Delivery Confidence Score” on specific addresses

  • will obviously be demarcated by economic and/or racial lines <sigh>

• Chat2024 — Cut through the noise, dive into meaningful conversations with clones of the 2024 Presidential candidates. Ask questions, gain clarity, and be an informed voter.

  • should have a “for entertainment use” tag

• Bard can now connect to your Google apps and services Google Blog

• EmojiGen — An Open Source Emoji Generator

  • ever wish you had just the right “Roger Federer on the tennis court” emoji? this has you covered.

• Microsoft AI researchers mistakenly leaked 38TB of company data Engadget

• Design Principles — An open source collection of Design Principles and methods.

  • includes Yves Behar’s 10 Principles for Design in the Age of AI

• AI Mashup: Deep Fake Drake Sings Fast Car (2 People Become 1) - DJ Earworm Dj Earworm, YouTube

  • Fake Drake, Empire of the Sun, and Billy Ocean sing Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car”

🧿 AI-ADJACENT

• How To Be Successful Sam Altman, 2019