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New newsletter issue is out, this time it's about a new GenAI community that’s entirely unrelated to that Gen V series you prolly haven’t seen, artisans being artsy, speeding up OpenAI, and staying safe when downloading random models vlad.substack.com/p/genaiclubr...

GenAIClub.ro, artisans, speeding up OpenAI, and staying safe when downloading random models

Hi friends, and welcome to another issue of this newsletter! Let’s see what’s on the menu — a new GenAI community that’s entirely unrelated to that Gen V series you prolly haven’t seen, a brilliant ar...

The task of finding a “needle in a haystack” may be giving us an unrealistic impression of LLMs’ ability to use their maximum context length. If they have to find *two* passages and reason about the connection, performance drops rapidly far below the maximum length. 🧪 #MLSky 🤖

Same Task, More Tokens: the Impact of Input Length on the...

This paper explores the impact of extending input lengths on the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite LLMs advancements in recent times, their performance consistency across...

If you find yourself using Langchain's AzureChatOpenAI, make sure you don't have any OPENAI_API_BASE environment variables lying around (even though you're not using them to initialize the thing!) Otherwise, you will have a bad time. Documented the whole thing here: vladiliescu.net/wiki/langcha...

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Everyone’s favorite large language model toolkit

Fargo's latest season is quite good. Dark and funny, plus John Hamm makes a great villain.

Back to the drawing board...

I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750). To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.

A very "go big or go home" from Gemini Ultra. 1 million tokens 🤯. Curious how well retrieval accuracy & generation performance work outside Google's own test labs, but if they're even half-decent... just imagine what's coming our way in 6 months. blog.google/technology/a...

I’ve always wondered if it’s some sort of a McGGUFfin

You’d never think anything starting with “Mutant wolves roaming the deserted streets of Chernobyl” would have a positive ending, but here we are.