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AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff

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17th April 2024 I gave a talk last month at the Story Discovery at Scale data...
17th April 2024 I gave a talk last month at the Story Discovery at Scale data journalism conference hosted at Stanford by Big Local News. My brief was to go deep into the things we can use Large Language Models for right now, illustrated by a flurry of demos to help provide starting points for further conversations ...
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Three major LLM releases in 24 hours

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10th April 2024 I’m a bit behind on my weeknotes, so there’s a lot to cover...
10th April 2024 I’m a bit behind on my weeknotes, so there’s a lot to cover here. But first... a review of the last 24 hours of Large Language Model news. All times are in US Pacific. 11:01am: Google Gemini Pro 1.5 hits general availability, here’s the blog post—their 1 million token context GPT-4 class model now ha...
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Cally: Accessibility Statement

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Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser

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30th March 2024 I attended the Story Discovery At Scale data journalism conference at Stanford this...
30th March 2024 I attended the Story Discovery At Scale data journalism conference at Stanford this week. One of the perennial hot topics at any journalism conference concerns data extraction: how can we best get data out of PDFs and images? I’ve been having some very promising results with Gemini Pro 1.5, Claude 3 ...
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Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm

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Four new models that are benchmarking near or above GPT-4

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8th March 2024 Four weeks ago, GPT-4 remained the undisputed champion: consistently at the top of...
8th March 2024 Four weeks ago, GPT-4 remained the undisputed champion: consistently at the top of every key benchmark, but more importantly the clear winner in terms of “vibes”. Almost everyone investing serious time exploring LLMs agreed that it was the most capable default model for the majority of tasks—and had b...
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Prompt injection and jailbreaking are not the same thing

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5th March 2024 I keep seeing people use the term “prompt injection” when they’re actually talking...
5th March 2024 I keep seeing people use the term “prompt injection” when they’re actually talking about “jailbreaking”. This mistake is so common now that I’m not sure it’s possible to correct course: language meaning (especially for recently coined terms) comes from how that language is used. I’m going to try anywa...
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Interesting Ideas in Observable Framework

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The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video

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2.5G Home networking via eathernet over coaxial

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It's OK to call it Artificial Intelligence

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Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023

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31st December 2023 2023 was the breakthrough year for Large Language Models (LLMs). I think it’s...
31st December 2023 2023 was the breakthrough year for Large Language Models (LLMs). I think it’s OK to call these AI—they’re the latest and (currently) most interesting development in the academic field of Artificial Intelligence that dates back to the 1950s. Here’s my attempt to round up the highlights in one place...
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