Gary P Shewan

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LLM

LLM's are crap

In security you can’t block and ban everything people do. That would be silly. So you need to also rely on education and awareness. A German Journalist - I’m not going to name him for reasons which will become obvious - was interested in how his work was

Can it forget?

Interesting. This might be why a lot of tools aren’t currently being released in the EU? Pesky ‘Right to be forgotten/erasure’ eh? Making AI models ‘forget’ undesirable data hurts their performance | TechCrunchA new study finds that making generative AI models ‘forget’ information hurts their performance on other tasks,

Show me the other money

This is a long but good read. Zitron really researched this. How Does OpenAI Survive?Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and

Model collapse again

Ah ‘Model Collapse’ is rearing its head again. So the problem still stands. I haven’t seen anything recently on ‘Temporal Degradation’ - but they keep releasing new versions. ‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail | TechCrunchIf the models continue eating each other’s data, perhaps

It can't summarise

This is the kind of thing I like to see. Somebody with multi-domain knowledge putting the work in and checking claims. In this case ‘Can ChatGPT summarise a document?’ And then looking at it from an unbiased point of view: When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.

The Goldman Report

I linked to the Goldman report when it first came out. But I’m more than happy to link to someone who does a far better commentary than I ever could. Long, well researched (and linked) read. Grab a beverage because it’s good: Pop CultureHi there. Do you like

Will LLM open source win?

I have always liked the original long form version of 'Jack of all trades'. I may not be a deep expert in a lot of things, but I'll learn enough to ask questions that are linked. I've been reading about Large Language Model (LLM)