AI Link Roundup: June 8th
From the Galecia blog archive, 2003–2024. Posts are kept as they were published, so some details and links are out of date.
I thought I'd share some of the links that we're reading in this week's PLAID workshops...
This week's "AI in the News" roundup:
Pew says "few have tried" ChatGPT -- but 1 in 7 doesn't sound too "few" to me. Good article on the spread of ChatGPT in the US:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/24/a-majority-of-americans-have-heard-of-chatgpt-but-few-have-tried-it-themselves/
The National Eating Disorder Association replaced their unionizing helpline staff with a chatbot last month:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ezkm/eating-disorder-helpline-fires-staff-transitions-to-chatbot-after-unionization
The National Eating Disorder Association, who you may remember from the previous paragraph, took their new helpline chatbot offline after it went rogue and started giving harmful advice:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eating-disorder-helpline-chatbot-disabled/
In this week's PLAID workshop, we'll be studying materials from these OpenAI docs:
https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/techniques_to_improve_reliability.md
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/gpt-best-practices/strategy-write-clear-instructions
https://openai.com/blog/new-ways-to-manage-your-data-in-chatgpt
And some unofficial docs NOT from OpenAI:
https://github.com/brexhq/prompt-engineering