Generative AI

Generative AI

How are you using GenAI?

• Academic. Misconduct & creating

• Noticing a lot of garbage coming out.

• NP Exec looking to make things more efficient but not sure how.

• My NP Exec needs support writing a grant proposals. Projections, etc.

• Preparing for a bookclub, for a book I didn't read.

• Making coding fun again. Writing emails. Writing blog posts. Use it every day.

• Interested in AI for accessibility for low literacy communities.

• Worried about abuse of communications channels, when it's so easy to create content --> volume of spammy / advert / direct mail / sms.

• Worried about using internal docs to generate docs --> privacy concerns.

• Generating a list of talking points. 4 were good, 2 were opposition args or greenwash.

• Desiring shared vocab about what GAI is and isn't.

• Draft agreements at work, with HR director.

• Want to learn to build my own system people can interact w/, with my own data set

• Creating custom agents.

• Using for qualitative analysis.

• Use API to make models

• Look at LLM and GPTs as necessary weapon.

George

• From the school of folks who mock the new stuff

• Everyone should be learning Prompt Engineering

• Using OpenAI's API to use your own data

What is prompt engineering?

• Tell it how to act / who to act like ("Llike a security researcher with a focus on accessibility")

• Give it some knowledge / context ("THere were x breaches in 2020")

• Tell it what to do ("Make XYZ")

• Tell it how to do it ("as a list")

• Tell it what not to do ("Don't do this")

How to get started with Prompt Engineering?:

• A lot of resources online. YouTube videos. Context driven videos.

• Look for things that explain how it works. How prompts get chained together.

The tools:

• Bard. It's OK. Lacking when it comes to tone and the options you might be looking for. Doesn't do a good jog with a lot.

• ChatGPT: task decomponistion. generate articafcts. gernate document or SVG file or some code.

• Claud.ai - "constitutional AI" - results are a little more rich / natural sounding in tone. I'll use that for documents / things that are creative.

• Microsoft Edge has GPT4 built in. I have questions about privacy there (and in general)

• Anthropic: forked by moral people at OpenAI

• Surveys being done:

• determine hallucinations

• open AI way ahead, bard way behind

Concerns:

• job replacement concerns

• There are companies offering worker replacement with AI

• Long list of folks whose jobs are at risk - or need to evolve

• Are soft skills more important now, b/c relationships can't be replicated? Or hard skills more important b/c you gotta check the bullshit?

• Privacy concerns:

• Meredith Whitticker. Head of Signal. Union org at Google. Says big tech is sucking in our data.

• Is it ethical to include client data in ChatGPT?

• OpenAI just said "we'll defend you if someone sues you?"

• We have in our contract that your data can go to OpenAI

• You can make agreements w/ OpenAI that they won't use your data for training

• How can you get data out of a LLM when you want to "fire" a client for example?

• Apple bans use of OpenAI internally

• Progressive usage

• OpenAI is based on existing logic. Progressive work is based on putting forth a new kind of thinking.

Limits of generations of models:

• 7 mo ago it was hard to give it a lot of context in one go - to GPT3.5

• Give it a lot of prompt chains

• Keep giving it context

Context

• You are the context expert. If you don't know plumbing in NYC, you're not going to get GPT to do that for you.

• You also need context to spot whether it's right, or spot if it's bullshit.