Simon Willison initiated this very interesting Twitter thread that asks, “What prompt can instantly tell us how good an LLM model is?” The Sally-Anne Test is a popular test that asks: Sally hides a marble in her basket and leaves the room. While she is away, Anne moves the marble from Sally’s basket to her own box. When Sally returns, where will she look for her marble?" ...
Until recently, I could code on flights. This year, I lost that ability. Again. It’s happened before. In each case, technology has solved the problem for me. Here’s the history. I need a laptop. Since 2001, I’ve never been without one on a flight. I need power. Since 2005, I use dark mode and every low power feature available. (I also became good at finding hidden power outlets.) ...
Every time I get annoyed at people, I remind myself to be more like ChatGPT. Specifically: Don't get annoyed. Be patient. Encourage them. Step back and show them the big picture. (Then I get annoyed at myself for getting annoyed.) Today, I analyzed how exactly ChatGPT is different from me. So, I took a pitch document I co-authored with ChatGPT. Section A: Authored by Anand WHAT DO WE NEED? ...
text-embedding-ada-002 used to give high cosine similarity between texts. I used to consider 85% a reasonable threshold for similarity. I almost never got a similarity less than 50%. text-embedding-3-small and text-embedding-3-large give much lower cosine similarities between texts. For example, take these 5 words: “apple”, “orange”, “Facebook”, “Jamaica”, “Australia”. Here is the similarity between every pair of words across the 3 models: For our words, new text-embedding-3-* models have an average similarity of ~43% while the older text-embedding-ada-002 model had ~85%. ...
I looked at how Gramener uses ChatGPT Plus by evaluating 600+ chats asked over 3 months from Oct 2023 to Jan 2024. The team asks 6 questions a day. We don't track who or how many actively use ChatGPT Plus. This also excludes personal ChatGPT accounts. Still, 6/day is low for an entire team put together. The questions fall into 8 categories. Category%Excel, data exploration & analysis25%Text extraction and summarization13%HTML, CSS, or JavaScript code13%Python code13%LLMs, AI and use cases9%OCR and image analysis9%Generate images, logos, and designs7%General knowledge, policy & environment5%Audio and translation5% Here are some questions from each category - to give you an idea of emergent ChatGPT Plus usage. ...
I speak with ChatGPT ~20 times a day. That’s more than I speak with most of my colleagues. ChatGPT is clearly my favorite team member. I conduct trainings, reviews and mentoring sessions with my colleagues. How to write code. How to write slides. How to communicate. That last bit is particularly important. With ChatGPT Custom Instructions, I can guide ChatGPT on how to work better with me. Currently, I have 10 custom instructions. They evolved over time and will continue to evolve. ...