Using AI

By Alex Denne, Rafie Faruq and Alex Papadopoulos Korfiatis

We discuss how people are using AI daily, including as an ML Research Scientist, Founder and Growth Marketer at Genie AI, as well as in our personal lives.

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November 17, 2023 BREAKING: Sam Altman Leaves Open AI
Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.
In a statement, the board of directors said: “OpenAI was deliberately structured to advance our mission: to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all humanity. The board remains fully committed to serving this mission. We are grateful for Sam’s many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI. At the same time, we believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward. As the leader of the company’s research, product, and safety functions, Mira is exceptionally qualified to step into the role of interim CEO. We have the utmost confidence in her ability to lead OpenAI during this transition period.”
Sam Altman Tweet: i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people.
will have more to say about what’s next later.
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November 16, 2023Microsoft Copilots Everything at Ignite 2023 Event + New Notion AI Beta
We discuss: Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot for Azure, AI technologies, Microsoft Ignite 2023, CRM Assistants, CRM integrations, Generative AI for Enterprises, GPT Store, Open AI, Word Add-Ons, Excel, Dynamics 365, Copilot Studio, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Notion AI, Notion's New Q&A feature, What Powers Notion AI (Spoiler: It's GPT-4).

No Rafie today - but we press on. In this episode, we discuss the new offerings from Microsoft concerning its Copilot series, which uses generative AI technologies. During the Microsoft Ignite 2023 conference, the company introduced the Copilot for Azure, Copilot for Service, and Copilot in Dynamics 365 Guides. We also discuss the launch of Copilot Studio, a platform that offers tools to connect Copilot to third-party data.

The Copilot for Azure, similar to Google's recently announced Duet AI in Google Cloud, takes the form of a chat-driven assistant for cloud customers, helping with configuration suggestions and troubleshooting potential issues. Copilot for Service integrates with CRM software for customer service use cases, while the Copilot in Dynamics 365 Guides is designed to summarize useful information for frontline workers in a variety of industries.

We also discuss the new update from Notion, a note-taking app enhanced with AI. Its new 2.35 update introduces a new feature called Q&A, which is currently in beta testing. This feature responds to your notes in the form of answers, making it easier to manage tasks, timelines, and priorities. (Or does it?)

News links
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/15/microsoft-now-has-a-copilot-for-almost-everything/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23960417/microsoft-copilot-ai-studio-custom-gpts-chatgpt-openai

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/11/15/microsoft-ignite-2023-ai-transformation-and-the-technology-driving-change/

https://www.notion.so/releases/2023-11-14
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November 07, 2023GPT-4 Turbo 128k + OpenAI's Dev Day + GPT-4 Vision and GPT Store
We discuss: OpenAI's Dev Day, 128k tokens, Claude, model distillation, ensemble models, GPT4, inference, attention mechanism, tokenizer, fine tuning, retrieval, code interpreter, JSON validator, GPT store, App store, GPT-4 Vision, ChatGPT-4 Turbo, input tokens, output tokens, prompts, context window, context side,
This is the first episode of Using AI Series 2!
I’m Alex Denne, joined once more by ML Research Scientist Alex Pap and AI Startup Founder Nitish Mutha.
We are only a few weeks ago from the anniversary of ChatGPT being released, and OpenAI have just hosted their Dev Day, with some big announcements. We’ve been busy too - attending events in the run up to the UK’s AI Safety Summit.

News links and info
https://openai.com/blog/new-models-and-developer-products-announced-at-devday

GPT-4 Turbo is 3x cheaper for input tokens and 2x cheaper for output compared to GPT-4

GPT-4 Turbo offers a 128,000-token context window (equivalent to a 190 page word document) — surpassing Anthropic’s Claude 2

GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-4 Vision, DALL-E 3 & TTS api access + JSON Validation

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts

New Whisper large-v3 model

Open AIs “Copyright Shield”

https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

Watch USING AI on youtube
⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsQu4IipA7Ri2AqKcQZ1Yw⁠
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June 22, 2023AI Lawyers + ChatGPT's Legal Drafting (Contract Review + Negotiation) + AI News This Week
This is the last episode of Using AI Series 1!
The Business of Law usually tops the list of industries to be disrupted by ML and AI innovation. Let’s get into it.
I’m Alex Denne, joined once more by ML Research Scientist Alex and AI Startup Founder Rafie Faruq.

Tell us what you want us to cover in the next series of episodes on Using AI.
On Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7077624981232177152
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/GenieAI/status/1671858707334873094

Watch USING AI on youtube (and see our AI background images) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsQu4IipA7Ri2AqKcQZ1Yw

News links
OpenAI plans App Store for AI models - https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-plans-app-store-ai-software-information-2023-06-20/

China’s Underground Market for Nvidia’s A100 AI Chips - https://www.reuters.com/technology/inside-chinas-underground-market-high-end-nvidia-ai-chips-2023-06-19/

Softbank moves into Offence mode over AI hype - https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/softbank-shift-its-stance-offence-mode-says-ceo-son-2023-06-21/

Rafie attends the AI + Ethics Event at The House of Lords - https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/ - https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/events/report-launch-ethical-ai-future
Theme links
Covering areas such as Legal Transactions, Disputes, Negotiation, Litigation.
Example companies in this space: ThoughtRiver, Lexico, LawGeex, LexisNexis, Donna, SpellBook, Ironclad, Zegal, Harvey, Clausebase, DoNotPay, Genie AI
Contract drafting (because of personalisation vs templates and time and cost vs law firms) -
UK - https://jackwshepherd.medium.com/chat-gpt-for-contract-drafting-ai-v-templates-50ec8fd42f44 - Legal Practice Lead at iManage

UK - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP - https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d0696eb9-c850-43d6-968f-a06330b59e38
Document Review -
How good is GPT-4 at marking up contracts? - https://www.clausebase.com/post/how-good-is-gpt-4-at-marking-up-contracts
Negotiation
Nobody is doing this yet
What our Legal Assistant does - and when it’ll be released
Check that out at https://get.genieai.co/ or by simply signing up to our app - https://app.genieai.co/community
Crazy things from this week
Coloring books, stickers, mugs, and T-shirts are being pumped out by AI-assisted hustlers. AI has made it easier than ever to generate artwork, but that’s also led to a proliferation of AI-generated products on Etsy - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/06/ai-chatgpt-side-hustle/674415

Grammy’s will allow AI-use - https://time.com/6288131/grammys-ai-rules/

Wimbledon to introduce AI-powered commentary to coverage this year - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jun/21/wimbledon-introduce-ai-powered-commentary-to-coverage-this-year

Google warned its own employees not to enter confidential information into chatbots, including its own Bard. This restriction includes entering computer code - https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-one-ais-biggest-backers-warns-own-staff-about-chatbots-2023-06-15
Topics touched on
Copyright, the law, legal interns, legal assistants, lawyer, law firm, M&A, disputes, litigtation, paralegals, Anthropic, Claude, GPT-4, 32K tokens, 100k token limit, text generation, heuristics, citibank, citi, Microsoft Word Integrations, API calls, NDAs, License agreements, Supervised vs Unsupervised learning, in-house lawyers, OpenAI, Softbank, Venture Capital, Investment, AI Hype
That’s it for this season!

As mentioned - Tell us what you want us to cover in the next series of episodes on Using AI.
On Linkedin: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7077624981232177152⁠
On Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/GenieAI/status/1671858707334873094⁠
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June 15, 2023AI in Politics + AI News (A Final Beatles Song Thanks to AI, ChatGPT Church Sermon + OpenAI API Updates)
Will AI politicians and AI political parties be a thing? Plus - AI church services in Germany, a 4-week-old startup mistral.ai raises $113m, the UK Gov <3 Deepmind, Yann LeCun (Godfather #3) tries to allay AI fears, OpenAI releases large API updates
Your host is AI geek Alex Denne, joined by ML Research scientist Alex and AI Founder Rafie Faruq.
Watch USING AI on youtube (and see our AI background images) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsQu4IipA7Ri2AqKcQZ1Yw
News links
Meta scientist Yann LeCun says AI won't destroy jobs forever - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65886125

OpenAI, DeepMind will open up models to UK government - https://www.politico.eu/article/openai-deepmind-will-open-up-models-to-uk-government

Function calling and other API updates - https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates
Note: the Context length for GPT-3.5 turbo has been increased
Theme links
One in four Europeans favor Artificial Intelligence making policy decisions over politicians, according to IE University report - https://www.ie.edu/university/news-events/news/one-in-four-europeans-favor-artificial-intelligence-making-policy-decisions-over-politicians-according-to-ie-university-report/

AI Politician in New Zealand https://analyticsindiamag.com/worlds-first-ai-powered-virtual-politician-sam-joins-the-electoral-race-in-new-zealand/

AI Politician by Yandex in Russia https://www.newsweek.com/russia-putin-could-face-controversial-robot-next-year-president-election-741509
Crazy things from this week
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/chatgpt-takes-the-pulpit-ai-leads-experimental-church-service-in-germany

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-13/france-s-mistral-ai-raises-113-million-in-big-eu-startup-debut

A final beatles song - https://www.semafor.com/article/06/13/2023/paul-mccartney-beatles-song-ai
Topics we touched on
How large foundation models are trained and how it works, patients, doctors, transcriptions, handwriting, training data, reddit API changes, Twitter API changes, wealth tax, code interpreter, Mistral.ai, Anthropic, Putin, New Zealand, Virtual Politicians, Rishi Sunak, #LondonTechWeek, political prompts, budget surplus, budget deficits, policy writing, policy creation, civil service, NHS, ChatGPT
Stay tuned for our next episode on - AI in the legal industry
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June 08, 2023Github Copilot, ChatGPT Code Interpreter & AI Coding + News This Week
Can anyone code if they are pair programming with AI? Are these tools accurate and helpful? (Jump to 18 mins in). Join ML & Python Engineer Tom Wright, AI Startup Founder Rafie Faruq and Host Alex Denne for a discussion covering the AI news from the week, AI software development assistants and the results of the largest Turing Test ever.

Watch USING AI on youtube (and see our AI-generated background images) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsQu4IipA7Ri2AqKcQZ1Yw

News links
TIME: The End of Humanity 😱 🤨 - https://time.com/6283609/artificial-intelligence-race-existential-threat

The Times: Matt Clifford “AI systems ‘could kill many humans’ within two years” - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-risks-matt-clifford-talktv-interview-2023-s7npn5wcz

Bloomberg: 3,900 job cuts in May because of “AI” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-01/job-cuts-from-ai-are-just-beginning-the-latest-challenger-report-suggests

Report: https://omscgcinc.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The-Challenger-Report-May23.pdf

JPMorgan advertised 4000 AI related jobs in the last 3 months alone - https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-leading-wall-street-shift-advertised-3600-ai-jobs-2023-6

Japan Government: Copyright does not apply to AI training - https://technomancers.ai/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training

Theme discussion and links (from the 18min mark)
AI Pair Programming with Github Copilot https://github.com/features/copilot

Deepmind discover 70% faster short-sorts and 1.7% faster for lists of 250k+ https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphadev-discovers-faster-sorting-algorithms -

Crazy things this week
Largest Turing Test to date results are out - https://www.ai21.com/blog/human-or-not-results only 68% of people guessed correctly when asked to determine whether they talked to a fellow human or an AI bot

Via the Human or not game - https://www.humanornot.ai/

Nvidia “Neuralangelo” reconstructs 3d scenes from a smartphone video recording - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/06/01/neuralangelo-ai-research-3d-reconstruction

Youtube: AI Explained - ChatGPT Code Interpreter Data Analysis and Visualisation use cases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8GUH0_htRM

Topics touched on
Unit testing, Code comments, SQL, Python, Regex, User stories, D3.js, Hans Rosling, Copilot, Codex, GPT 3.5 Turbo, Code generation, Vector diagrams, ChatGPT Plugins, Textual representation, Product management, Generative AI, Behaviour Scenarios, Tests, Acceptance Criteria, Fine tuning, IDEs, Documentation, Utility functions, Task decomposition, VSCode, API, Debugging, coding, software development, the last mile, mathematical proofs, Wolfram Alpha, AI Pair programming
Stay tuned for our next episode on - AI political parties

Next week - AI Political Parties
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June 01, 2023AI Characters, Companions & Chat Bots + AI News
Let’s get cosy with our AI companions + news from this week. Join real human companions Alex Papadopoulos Korfiatis (ML Research Scientist), Rafie Faruq (AI Startup Founder) and your host Alex Denne. Yikes! Over an hour - we had a lot to talk about this week eh?

Watch this episode on youtube (and see our AI background images) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsQu4IipA7Ri2AqKcQZ1Yw

News links
PEW Research ChatGPT usage study - 14% of US adults have used it (Sample of 10k) https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/24/a-majority-of-americans-have-heard-of-chatgpt-but-few-have-tried-it-themselves/

NVIDIA hits $1trn market cap and NVIDIA’s Computex keynote - https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/28/nvidia-computex-jensen-huang/

Another Statement on AI Risk: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk

Report released by the congressional research service on generative artificial intelligence and data - primer PDF - https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47569

Another of the 3 godfathers of AI have come out with deep regrets - Yoshua Bengio. (The other two are Geoffrey Hinton (also expressed regrets), and Yann LeCun (just interested in improving AI accuracy at the moment) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65760449

Theme links
character.ai - Raised at a valuation of $1bn pre-revenue, user-created characters from elon musk himself, to abusive father figures, socrates and virtual girlfriends. Subreddit has 120k users, very impressive traction.

https://replika.com - the classic ai companion app.

I highly recommend people just browse the top posts there - I actually cried with laughter. https://www.reddit.com/r/replika/top/?t=all

As of February 2023, filters were put in place to prevent explicit conversations of an adult nature. Users who joined prior to that date can roll back to an earlier version of Replika that will still allow it. Here’s why https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9852506#english Italy SA clamped down due to too many risks to children and emotionally vulnerable individuals

Chai research - 4 billion messages served - https://www.chai-research.com/

Crazy things from this week
US lawyer admits using AI for case research - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65735769

Moodpen - https://moodpen.com/ - get clarity from your mood / journaling with AI + actionable steps

Topics we touched on
personal ai companion, roleplay ai chatbots, talking to AI, ai companionship, nvidia, chai, ChatGPT, replika, character.ai, deepmind, virtual companions, virtual friends, virtual characters, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Music Recommendations, Ted Lasso, Mae
Stay tuned for our next episode on - AI and Coding
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May 25, 2023 Tokens, Prompts & Meta's Megabyte + AI News
⁠MedPaLM 2 outperforms human doctors in 86.5% of cases⁠
⁠Meta AI’s 1.2m Token model Megabyte⁠
Meta’s ⁠LIMA⁠: Less Is More for Alignment
Photoshop & ⁠Adobe Firefly gets even better⁠
Crazy things
⁠Job interview real-time live transcription and responses⁠
⁠Drag GAN - Modifying images by dragging certain points⁠
Prompt tips
- Knowing how the model was trained to choose your prompt engineering style (e.g. if it was trained on Q&As, then format your prompt with a Q&A).
- Give the model many examples of what you expect (e.g. if you want your answer in a certain style)
- Specificity vs generality. The more specific you are, the better the answer you’ll get.
- Always remember that the (transformer) model is predicting the next most probably sequence of tokens or words, whenever you are creating a prompt.
Links to other companies / models / startups mentioned
Dall E 2
Stable diffusion
Clearword meeting notes summariser
Bard
Bing
Tactiq
Mentions: Model conditioning, Tokens, Prompt Engineering, Model Training, Sequence2Sequence, RLHF, model weights, hyper parameters, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, annotated data, caselaw, finetuning, model selection, LLMs, Google, Rainbow Corn, Generative AI, Emergent capabilities
Book: ⁠⁠Michio Kaku: Physics of the future⁠⁠ (misquoted as Science of the future)
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May 18, 2023OpenAI CEO's Testimony + Prompt Engineering Tips + AI News From This Week
The implications of Sam Altman's testimony plus prompt hacking / prompt engineering tips. EU AI Act, Open Source OpenAI Models and much more.

Links
Watch this on Youtube

AI News this week
Sam Altman’s abridged testimony (Twitter):
Senate sub-comittee hearing in full:
Sam Altman Testimony on TikTok
Genie AI Linkedin

Mentions:
Sparks of AGI Microsoft Paper
OpenAI open source model
EU AI Act

Crazy things this week
https://mealpractice.com/generate - Effortless meal planning with AI-generated recipes
Elon saying OpenAI wouldn’t exist without him.

Discussion Points
AI generated opening statement by Richard Blumenthal

Sam Altman (OpenAI), Gary Marcus (Uber, Robust.ai), Christina Montgomery (IBM)

Senate is aware they don’t understand this enough to legislate on it

OpenAI is making significant efforts towards safety

OpenAI advocates for a committee to regulate AI development for large companies

Election fraud seems to be a major concern for OpenAI

New, better jobs will be created according to OpenAI

Prompt hacking tips
Be succint and specific!

Prime the language model by providing a persona for it.

Asking the model to think through its response step-by-step “Let’s think step-by-step”

Providing clear context: Offer concise background information for guidance. Use Cases: Definition explanations, historical event summaries, concept descriptions.

Specifying the output format: Indicate desired answer structure explicitly. Use Cases: Generating lists, step-by-step instructions, summarizing long texts.

Using explicit instructions: Request specific detail or critical thinking. Use Cases: Debating pros and cons, analyzing biases, evaluating arguments.

Redundancy and rephrasing: Reinforce information by reiterating questions. Use Cases: Clarifying ambiguous topics, extracting specific details, verifying facts.

Temperature and token settings: Adjust randomness and output length. Use Cases: Creative writing, focused summaries, generating multiple response variations.

Iterative refinement: Refine prompts based on previous responses. Use Cases: Troubleshooting, problem-solving, narrowing down complex topics.

Prompt engineering: Craft effective prompts using templates or examples. Use Cases: Analogies, translating complex topics into simple explanations, generating structured responses.

Advanced techniques like asking the language model to think step by step
Shout out to DeepLearning.AI’s free prompt engineering course: https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-engineering-for-developers/

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May 11, 2023AI Startups + Google I/O Roundup
News from the week
PaLM2 - better at reasoning, maths, and logic, and in many cases, and does better than OpenAI’s GPT-4.
PaLM2 PDF technical report

Apps mentioned
screenloop.com
gamma.app - Generation of the entire presentation
canva.com - AI throughout all the tools
Cloudsale.ai
Entrepreneur First (EF) - https://www.joinef.com/

Crazy Things
Palantir showcases “AIP” platform using LLMs in military situations 😬 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU)
Guardian article calling LLMs the largest heist in human history
The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine (NY Times)

Books mentioned
Innovator’s Dilemma - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma
New Silk Roads - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silk_Roads

Groups of key words people use to actively look for AI tools with
Images / Photo / Drawings / Video / Portrait / Design / Concepts

Text / Copy / Writing

Analytics / Detection / Voice / Vision / Recognition / Diagnosis / Patterns / Prediction / Optimization

Industries: Coding / HR / Marketing / Design / Robotics

Personalisation

Mentions
MedPalm2
The UK’s ICO, GDPR and Automated Decision Making (https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/rights-related-to-automated-decision-making-including-profiling/)
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