Most LLMs don’t succeed my “coco pops’ test”
Ah, really? Few good results for my Coco Pops test... The new Mistral model: surprising. Claude 2's response: legendary. Bard (PaLM2): Anthropic Cl...
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Speed Learning Machine Learning concepts in 1 Hour
If I only had one hour to familiarize myself with an unknown machine learning subject, I would try to choose some steps from the following list (ranked by pr...
Questioning the AGI Dream
I don't really know what to think about these AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) stories. Many players like OpenAI, Anthropic or Deepmind are pursuing thi...
How an Average LLM Can Fool Benchmarks and Match GPT-4
How can an average LLM fool benchmarks and achieve performance comparable to GPT-4? In this scientific article, researchers show how a 13 billion parameter...
The Fleeting Value of LLM Benchmarks
You can't improve what you don't measure. However, the relevance of measurement can degrade over time. Regarding LLMs or machine learning in general, we of...
Let’s talk about AI agents and LangChain…
Let's talk about AI agents and LangChain...With LLMs, you need to "code agile". Just as teams need to adapt quickly to changes, these applications must be ab...
Riding the LLM Hype Wave
I'd be lying if I said there wasn't hype around LLMs. Of course, the emergence of ChatGPT has propelled LLMs into the spotlight. Today, even people outside o...
Data Science Careers and Medical Specialties: An Amusing Parallel
I found it entertaining to draw a parallel between data science careers and medical specialties, to better convey the diversity of roles. The idea came to me...
Open source LLMs are sometimes cheaper than APIs
There are cases where using an open source LLM is cheaper than going through API calls. The main obstacle to using open source models is the inference cost a...
Is prompt engineering a scalable long-term approach ?
The Scalability Concerns of Relying on Prompt Engineering. I'm wondering if prompt engineering is a scalable long-term approach. I feel like today a large ...
Entrepreneurs: having a good idea is not enough to succeed.
There is a myth surrounding entrepreneurs that having a good idea is enough to succeed. This seems increasingly true today with the emergence of accessible A...
Most embedding models have linguistic bias
Most embedding models have linguistic bias. Whether for semantic search or LLM-powered QA (which is itself just semantic search with an LLM at the end of the...
Did Microsoft leak the number of parameters in ChatGPT?
A Microsoft publication is causing quite a stir because it appears to have leaked the number of parameters in GPT-3.5 Turbo, which would be 20 billion ...
Create a website with ChatGPT and Github Pages
The aim of this tutorial is to learn GitHub Pages and enhance your skills in HTML, CSS and JavaScript by building a website in a fun, engaging way....
What is a Machine Learning Engineer in this World?
What is a Machine Learning Engineer in this World? It's not a Software Engineer It's not a Data Scientist It's not an MLOps Engineer It's not a Data Engin...