Published in Towards 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 in Towards AI·3 days agoThis AI newsletter is all you need #40What happened this week in AI by Louis With the surging demand for generative AI, this week saw preparatory developments for the next wave of AI. Companies are fast-tracking the development of AI products, and generative AI tools are closer to becoming consumer products than ever before. They are already becoming powerful assistants for writers and programmers and…Artificial Intelligence8 min readArtificial Intelligence8 min read
Published in Towards AI·Mar 21Member-onlyThis AI newsletter is all you need #39What happened this week in AI by Louie The last week in AI was dominated by the sudden release of GPT-4 by OpenAI. We note 4 key areas of improvement of GPT-4 over GPT-3.5; 1) Multi-modal — The most noticeable change in the new model is its “multimodal” capability. While ChatGPT and GPT-3 were limited to text, GPT-4…Towards Ai9 min readTowards Ai9 min read
Published in Towards AI·Mar 20Learning from Experience, TD-Learning, ϵ -Greedy1. Learning from Experience Training & Testing in RL (compared with Machine Learning) 2. Temporal-Difference Learning 2.1 Temporal Difference Update Equation 2.2 TD-Learning algorithm in pseudocode Review 3. The Env class 3.1 How can I use this in Python? 3.2 Concrete example: FlightPathEnv 4. Exercise: Learning a Value Function from…17 min read17 min read
Published in Towards AI·Mar 20The Return, Value Functions & Bellman EquationTable of Content: — 1. Return Gt Simple Return Formula Aside: How many timesteps does an MDP have? Why not maximize the reward rt? 2. Discounting the Future γ General Return Formula Example of Discounted Return Review 3. Exercise 1 — Barry’s Blissful Breakfast Maze 4. Value Functions vπ(s) Mathematical Definition 5. Bellman Equation …13 min read13 min read
Published in Towards AI·Mar 14This AI newsletter is all you need #38What happened this week in AI by Louis This week, AI continues to thrive under competitive pressure, and excitement is building for the arrival of GPT-4. Tech giants, generative AI startups, and even individuals are competing to be at the forefront of the AI landscape by providing viable alternatives to ChatGPT. The generative AI space has also become…Artificial Intelligence8 min readArtificial Intelligence8 min read
Published in Towards AI·Mar 7How did Binary Cross-Entropy Loss Come into Existence?Exploring the Genesis of Binary Cross-Entropy Loss Function — Author(s): Pratik Shukla “You always pass failure on the way to success.” — Mickey Rooney Table of Contents: Introduction Properties of the binary classification problem Basics of Bernoulli trials Probability of multiple independent events Properties of logarithm Why do we take a log of Bernoulli trails Why do we take the negative log…Machine Learning9 min readMachine Learning9 min read
Published in Towards AI·Mar 7This AI newsletter is all you need (#37)What happened this week in AI by Louis This week developments in LLMs and Generative AI continued at pace — ranging from more cutting-edge research, to open-source accessibility to general affordability of mass-market products. Following Meta’s somewhat open-source release (to researchers only) of its 65BN parameter Llama model last week — the full model weights were promptly leaked…Artificial Intelligence7 min readArtificial Intelligence7 min read
Published in Towards AI·Mar 7Top 17 Generative AI-based Programming Tools (For Developers)TL;DR: Hold on to your keyboards, developers! The age of generative AI has arrived, and it’s changing the game. With over 100 million users, ChatGPT is just one example of how generative AI is transforming the way we write code. These tools can analyze patterns in existing code and generate new…Ai Tools16 min readAi Tools16 min read
Published in Towards AI·Feb 28This AI newsletter is all you need (#36)What happened this week in AI by Louis This week we were pleased to note an acceleration in progress toward open-source alternatives to ChatGPT as well as signs of increased flexibility in access to these models. While many major tech companies are building their own alternative to ChatGPT, we are particularly excited to see open-source alternatives that can…Machine Learning7 min readMachine Learning7 min read
