Existential Risk? I Don't Get It!: Prominent computer scientists fear that AI could trigger human extinction. It's time to have a real conversation about the realistic risks.
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Existential Risk? I Don't Get It!: Prominent computer scientists fear that AI could trigger human extinction. It's time to have a real conversation about the realistic risks.

Last week, safe.org asserted that “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

June 7, 20232 min read
Three New Courses!: Check out our short courses on Building Systems with the ChatGPT API, LangChain for LLM Application Development, and How Diffusion Models Work.
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Three New Courses!: Check out our short courses on Building Systems with the ChatGPT API, LangChain for LLM Application Development, and How Diffusion Models Work.

In April, DeepLearning.AI launched a short course, “ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers,” taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me. I’m thrilled to announce three more short courses, available today.

June 1, 20232 min read
Three New Courses!: Check out our short courses on Building Systems with the ChatGPT API, LangChain for LLM Application Development, and How Diffusion Models Work.
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Three New Courses!: Check out our short courses on Building Systems with the ChatGPT API, LangChain for LLM Application Development, and How Diffusion Models Work.

In April, DeepLearning.AI launched a short course, “ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers,” taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me. I’m thrilled to announce three more short courses, available today.

June 1, 20232 min read
Building AI Systems No Longer Requires Much Data: Pretrained models make it possible to build AI systems using very little additional data.
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Building AI Systems No Longer Requires Much Data: Pretrained models make it possible to build AI systems using very little additional data.

It’s time to move beyond the stereotype that machine learning systems need a lot of data. While having more data is helpful, large pretrained models make it practical to build viable systems using a very small labeled training set — perhaps just a handful of examples specific to your application.

May 24, 20232 min read
Building AI Systems No Longer Requires Much Data: Pretrained models make it possible to build AI systems using very little additional data.
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Building AI Systems No Longer Requires Much Data: Pretrained models make it possible to build AI systems using very little additional data.

It’s time to move beyond the stereotype that machine learning systems need a lot of data. While having more data is helpful, large pretrained models make it practical to build viable systems using a very small labeled training set — perhaps just a handful of examples specific to your application.

May 24, 20232 min read
Beyond Test Sets: How prompting is changing machine learning development
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Beyond Test Sets: How prompting is changing machine learning development

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my team at Landing AI’s work on visual prompting. With the speed of building machine learning applications through text prompting and visual prompting, I’m...

May 17, 20232 min read
Beyond Test Sets: How prompting is changing machine learning development
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Beyond Test Sets: How prompting is changing machine learning development

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my team at Landing AI’s work on visual prompting. With the speed of building machine learning applications through text prompting and visual prompting, I’m...

May 17, 20232 min read
Doing Business with Chatbots: Companies might be overestimating how much it costs to run LLM-based applications.
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Doing Business with Chatbots: Companies might be overestimating how much it costs to run LLM-based applications.

There are many great applications to be built on top of large language models, and the overhead of doing so may be lower than you think. Sometimes, I've spent all day on a weekend developing ideas only to find that I've spent less than $0.50.

May 10, 20232 min read
Doing Business with Chatbots: Companies might be overestimating how much it costs to run LLM-based applications.
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Doing Business with Chatbots: Companies might be overestimating how much it costs to run LLM-based applications.

There are many great applications to be built on top of large language models, and the overhead of doing so may be lower than you think. Sometimes, I've spent all day on a weekend developing ideas only to find that I've spent less than $0.50.

May 10, 20232 min read
New course — ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers: Learn how to use ChatGPT's API to build applications for text processing, robotic process automation, coaching, and more
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New course — ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers: Learn how to use ChatGPT's API to build applications for text processing, robotic process automation, coaching, and more

Last week, we released a new course, ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers, created in collaboration with OpenAI. This short, 1.5-hour course is taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me.

May 3, 20232 min read
New course — ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers: Learn how to use ChatGPT's API to build applications for text processing, robotic process automation, coaching, and more
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New course — ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers: Learn how to use ChatGPT's API to build applications for text processing, robotic process automation, coaching, and more

Last week, we released a new course, ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers, created in collaboration with OpenAI. This short, 1.5-hour course is taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me.

May 3, 20232 min read
"Visual Prompting” Builds Vision Models in Seconds: A new approach applies ideas from text prompting to computer vision
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"Visual Prompting” Builds Vision Models in Seconds: A new approach applies ideas from text prompting to computer vision

My team at Landing AI just announced a new tool for quickly building computer vision models, using a technique we call Visual Prompting. It’s a lot of fun! I invite you to try it.

April 26, 20232 min read
"Visual Prompting” Builds Vision Models in Seconds: A new approach applies ideas from text prompting to computer vision
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"Visual Prompting” Builds Vision Models in Seconds: A new approach applies ideas from text prompting to computer vision

My team at Landing AI just announced a new tool for quickly building computer vision models, using a technique we call Visual Prompting. It’s a lot of fun! I invite you to try it.

April 26, 20232 min read
Opportunities and Pitfalls for Large Language Models: The LLM business landscape is crowded with APIs and short on high-value, hard-to-build applications.
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Opportunities and Pitfalls for Large Language Models: The LLM business landscape is crowded with APIs and short on high-value, hard-to-build applications.

The competitive landscape of large language models (LLMs) is evolving quickly. The ultimate winners are yet to be determined, and already the current dynamics are exciting. Let me share a few observations, focusing on direct-to-consumer...

April 19, 20233 min read
Opportunities and Pitfalls for Large Language Models: The LLM business landscape is crowded with APIs and short on high-value, hard-to-build applications.
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Opportunities and Pitfalls for Large Language Models: The LLM business landscape is crowded with APIs and short on high-value, hard-to-build applications.

The competitive landscape of large language models (LLMs) is evolving quickly. The ultimate winners are yet to be determined, and already the current dynamics are exciting. Let me share a few observations, focusing on direct-to-consumer...

April 19, 20233 min read

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