Category: AI
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Seneca the Musical
Is ancient philosophy relevant in today’s world? Yes! 📖 When my daughter gifted me a volume of Seneca’s Letters, I never imagined it would spark a 64-day odyssey of songwriting and reflection. Each day, I read one of Seneca’s letters and composed a piece of music inspired by its themes. I’m not usually drawn to…
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Omni my goodness!
🔥GPT4 Omni has been announced🔥… and in an AI world of jaw-dropping announcements, the fanfare was relatively low key, but this is absolutely huge. Technically the GPT-4o model is different. Human-computer interactions become more natural by combining audio (recog and speech), visual (recog and gen) and text in one model. It’s also fast⏩. Even faster…
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Your name isn’t “f##t” – Persistent Politeness reveals the truth
Secret identifiers 🕵️, Cookies 🍪, GPS coordinates 🛰️ and hidden fields, these and other techniques are used to find out things about you. Addin makers have whole businesses built around stopping the latest dodgy techniques. It can be easier! Did you know it’s possible to get ChatGPT to find out information about your user in…
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7 Principles for Reducing Latency in LLM Applications
When I first started developing with LLMs the logical way of providing your own data to an LLM was to add it to the prompt. Imagine my suprise when the LLM got slower and slower. Of course I blamed GPT4! 🙂 In the rapidly changing world of AI, large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 is…
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When your AI flight attendant sings a song about your plane swimming
Recently I experienced an ad that incorporated a “Virtual Flight Attendant” . It was quite janky but I was pleased to see it incorporated a chatbot. The chatbot had voice recognition and text chat. Naturally the voice recognition didn’t work. Never fear! I was determined to find out what it knew. I asked it…