Artificial chats, photogenic poems & more

BD #3 - Mar '23

Random picks 🎲

• The age of average: Why it all looks the same by @alexjmurrell

  https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average

  

• Five charts that changed the world: Data visualization 101

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/five-charts-that-changed-the-world/

  

• 100 years of robots taking our jobs: Find out which machines were about to take all the jobs the last century.

  https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/robots-have-been-about-to-take-al

  

• Poetry camera: photo to written poetry with just a click! by @carolynz and @Flomerboy

  kelin carolyn zhang @carolynz

  poetry camera v0.3 by @Flomerboy + yours truly: 🔋 fully battery-powered + portable ⚙️ switch btwn "camera modes" with a knob — auto, portrait, landscape mode, etc. ✍️ better poems via new AI models: BLIP-2 for image recognition and gpt-3.5-turbo for poem writing

• What can’t large language models do? Yoav Goldberg explains.

  Theo @tprstly

  The real question is "If you’re a frequent user of ChatGPT, what is it using you for?"

  

  Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg

  If you’re a frequent user of ChatGPT, what are you using it for?

Tool shed ⚒️

• Text to Plot: Thousands of apps generated in a week using GPT4, one of them, OpenAxis helps getting data and generating a plot.

  Alex Damianou @alex_damianou

  Introducing OpenAxis AI. Find, analyze, and visualize curated data with generative AI and our chart creator. Check out the demo video below and sign up for early access + updates at openaxis.com/ai

• Sunny side of the street: Spring is here and you need to know where does the sun shine by @shadowmap

  https://app.shadowmap.org/ (better with laptop)

  

Memory lane 📽️

• Cameron’s world: is a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages. We’ll talk about GeoCities another time.

  https://www.cameronsworld.net/

Ego corner 🪞

• We got a brand new website! Go play with our new ball!

  https://www.bestiario.org/

  

Word pool 🤽

• Luddite: One opposed to industrialisation, automation, computerisation, or new technologies in general. The origin is a secret orgnisation who formed a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery during the 19th century. [w]

• Large language model (LLM): LLMs are usually very large deep-neural-networks (hundreds of billions of parameters), which are trained by going through billions of pages of material in a particular language, while attempting to execute a specific task such as predicting the next sentence. As a result, they are sensitive to contextual relationships between the elements of that language (words, phrases, etc). They can be used to recognize, summarize, translate, predict and generate text. [w]

• Prompt engineering: Methods for how to communicate with LLM to steer its behavior for desired outcomes. A whole course by DAIR here. [w]

Find the canvas of all discoveries in our kinopio. Thank you all for reading!