Published inTowards AI·PinnedLearn Prompting 101: Prompt Engineering Course & ChallengesIntroduction The capabilities and accessibility of large language models (LLMs) are advancing rapidly, leading to widespread adoption and increasing human-AI interaction. Reuters reported research recently estimating that OpenAI’s ChatGPT already reached 100 million monthly users in January, just two months after its launch! This raises the importance of the question; how…Prompt Engineering11 min readPrompt Engineering11 min read
Published inTowards AI·3 days agoThis AI newsletter is all you need #50What happened this week in AI by Louie The open-source movement continues at pace this week with Falcon, a new family of state-of-the-art language models, ascending to the top of Hugging Face’s leaderboard. Falcon-40B, developed by the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, represents the first “truly open” model, boasting capabilities that rival many existing closed-source models. The…Artificial Intelligence7 min readArtificial Intelligence7 min read
Published inTowards AI·May 30This AI newsletter is all you need #49What happened this week in AI by Louie New AI model releases and announcements continued at pace this week, though step-change progress in capabilities feels slower than earlier this year. AI remained prominent in the mainstream news including a focus on Nvidia and the increased pace of GPU rollouts in datacentres for LLM inference and training. AI risks…Artificial Intelligence7 min readArtificial Intelligence7 min read
Published inTowards AI·May 23This AI newsletter is all you need #48What happened this week in AI by Louie This week in AI has witnessed significant announcements from OpenAI as well as increasing pressure on the company, including Sam Altman’s testimony in the Senate, the release of the ChatGPT iOS app, and plugins for ChatGPT+ users. During a Senate Committee hearing, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, along with other industry…Artificial Intelligence8 min readArtificial Intelligence8 min read
Published inTowards AI·May 16This AI newsletter is all you need #47What happened this week in AI by Louie This week AI progress continued down dual paths with significant advancements in open-source models together with developments at companies like Anthropic, Google, and Meta with a rising focus on business-oriented models. Anthropic’s official release of Claude’s context window extension from 9k to 100k tokens primarily targets its benefit to business…Artificial Intelligence8 min readArtificial Intelligence8 min read
Published inTowards AI·May 11HackAPrompt Competition: A Step Towards AI SafetyBy Learn Prompting and supported by Towards AI — HackAPrompt is a prompt hacking competition aimed at enhancing AI safety & education by challenging participants to outsmart LLMs. The HackAPrompt competition is currently underway and will continue until 11:59 PM EST on May 26th. With over 1300 participants, 46 teams, 629 submissions, and more than 26k views, the competition…Artificial Intelligence7 min readArtificial Intelligence7 min read
Published inTowards AI·May 9This AI newsletter is all you need #46What happened this week in AI by Louie This week we were interested to see some of the latest advancements in NLP and LLMs being applied to biology and medicine. OpenAI was also in the news again with the gradual rollout of its Code Interpreter plugin (offering a personal data analyst assistant) and rumors suggesting an upcoming release…Artificial Intelligence8 min readArtificial Intelligence8 min read
Published inTowards AI·May 2This AI newsletter is all you need #45What happened this week in AI by Louie This week witnessed several releases and developments in AI models, continuing the trend of open-source model alternatives. Among these, two popular consumer-facing LLM-based products, ChatGPT, and Github Co-pilot, faced new open-sourced competition with HuggingChat and Replit-Code, respectively. …Artificial Intelligence9 min readArtificial Intelligence9 min read
Published inTowards AI·Apr 25This AI newsletter is all you need #44What happened this week in AI by Louie This week in AI has seen some exciting developments in the world of open-source language models together with further discussion on the legal standing of LLM training data and AI-generated content. Stability AI, the company behind the AI-powered Stable Diffusion image generator, has released a suite of open-source large language…Artificial Intelligence9 min readArtificial Intelligence9 min read
Published inTowards AI·Apr 18This AI newsletter is all you need #43What happened this week in AI by Louie This week, the competition in the race for Generative AI and LLMs continued to intensify. Amazon announced its foray into the space by hosting models from Amazon, Stability.AI, and AI21, and promoting the specifications of its in-house chips designed for inference and training. Elon Musk also entered the race by…Artificial Intelligence7 min readArtificial Intelligence7 min read
