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Principled Instructions Are All You Need for Questioning LLaMA-1/2, GPT-3.5/4
Principled Instructions Are All You Need for Questioning LLaMA-1/2, GPT-3.5/4
This paper introduces 26 guiding principles designed to streamline the process of querying and prompting large language models. Our goal is to simplify the underlying concepts of formulating questions for various scales of large language models, examining their abilities, and enhancing user comprehension on the be- haviors of different scales of large language models when feeding into different prompts. Extensive experiments are conducted on LLaMA-1/2 (7B, 13B and 70B), GPT-3.5/4 to verify the effectiveness of the proposed principles on instructions and prompts design. We hope that this work can provide a better guide for researchers working on the prompting of large language models. Project page is available at https://github.com/VILA- Lab/ATLAS.
#ai
·arxiv.org·
Principled Instructions Are All You Need for Questioning LLaMA-1/2, GPT-3.5/4
ambient.garden
ambient.garden
ambient.garden is an experiment that started with the question: can a composition be organized in space rather than time? Can it be experienced in space by the listener? To explore this concept, all the sounds and graphics were entirely generated from open source code. The sounds of ambient.garden were assembled and grown into a music album, A Walk Through the Ambient Garden, also open source.
#generative#music#sound#ai
·ambient.garden·
ambient.garden
AI news that's fit to print
AI news that's fit to print
Hi, I'm Zach Seward, the editorial director of AI initiatives at The New York Times, where I'm building a newsroom team charged with prototyping potential uses of machine learning for the benefit of our journalists and our readers. Before that, I co-founded and spent more than a decade helping to run the business news startup Quartz, where we built a lot of experimental news products, some with AI. I started at The Times not even three months ago, so don't expect too much detail today about what we're working on—I don't even know yet. What I thought would be helpful, instead, is to survey the current state of AI-powered journalism, from the very bad to really good, and try to draw some lessons from those examples. I'm only speaking for myself today, but this certainly reflects how I'm thinking about the role AI could play in The Times newsroom and beyond. We're going to start today with the bad and the ugly, because I actually think there are important lessons to draw from those mistakes. But I'll spend most of my time on really great, inspiring uses of artificial intelligence for journalism—both on uses of what you might call "traditional" machine-learning models, which are excellent at finding patterns in vast amounts of data, and also some excellent recent uses of transformer models, or generative AI, to better serve journalists and readers.
#ai#journalism
·zachseward.com·
AI news that's fit to print
Open By Default
Open By Default
Open By Default is the biggest database of internal government documents never before made publicly accessible, and we're still adding more records. All our records come from access to information requests released by the federal government. Our goal is to strengthen democracy by giving all Canadians easy and immediate access to the information governments use to make decisions. Want to know how the government discusses climate change, taxes or house prices? You can do keyword searches using the search bar. You can also filter for records from a specific year or department.
#journalism#open#canada#oegconnect
·theijf.org·
Open By Default
The Open Organization Definition | Opensource.com
The Open Organization Definition | Opensource.com
Openness is becoming increasingly central to the ways groups and teams of all sizes are working together to achieve shared goals. And today, the most forward-thinking organizations—whatever their missions—are embracing openness as a necessary orientation toward success. They've seen that openness can lead to: Greater agility, as members are more capable of working toward goals in unison and with shared vision; Faster innovation, as ideas from both inside and outside the organization receive more equitable consideration and rapid experimentation, and; Increased engagement, as members clearly see connections between their particular activities and an organization's overarching values, mission, and spirit. But openness is fluid. Openness is multifaceted. Openness is contested. While every organization is different—and therefore every example of an open organization is unique—we believe these five characteristics serve as the basic conditions for openness in most contexts: Transparency Inclusivity Adaptability Collaboration Community
#open#organizations
·opensource.com·
The Open Organization Definition | Opensource.com
Clear Off the Table — Darkhorse Analytics | Edmonton, AB
Clear Off the Table — Darkhorse Analytics | Edmonton, AB
As with charts, rather than dressing up our data we should be stripping it down. For more information on table design, you can read Chapter 8 of Stephen Few's Show Me the Numbers. My apologies to any true fans of 80's wrestling, the stats below, much like the ring rivalries, are entirely fabricated.
#analytics#data#design
·darkhorseanalytics.com·
Clear Off the Table — Darkhorse Analytics | Edmonton, AB
The work of creation in the age of AI | Andrew Perfors
The work of creation in the age of AI | Andrew Perfors
Meaning, authenticity, and the creative process – and why they matter. mediation changes the experience in a very real way; the transmission chain from the creator to the recipient becomes part of the experience and thus part of the meaning. That means that different media and different kinds of mediation fundamentally change the meaning. It also means that the longer the transmission chain – the more a creation is divorced from its original context – the more the connection between the creator and the audience is frayed. The result thing might still be valuable, but it is different. This much, to me, seems inescapable. But I am left with two questions. First, why is it different? And secondly, does any of this change when the technology involved is AI? I’m going to claim, regarding the second, that AI does change things in a deep and fundamental way. Some say that AI is “just another tool”, but I don’t think it is; I think it distinctly and qualitatively alters the relationship between ourselves, our creations, and each other.3 To explain why, I have to go into my thoughts about the first question: why and how context and connection matters for authenticity and meaning.
#ai#art#writing#ideas#oegconnect
·perfors.net·
The work of creation in the age of AI | Andrew Perfors
Artificial intelligence - Embrace AI with confidence
Artificial intelligence - Embrace AI with confidence
"At Jisc we aim to ensure education benefits from AI through ethical implementation that fits with the culture of education. We will do this by developing a community of practice, supporting a series of pilots and experiments and also producing and sharing thought leadership articles. This blog will share details of our activity including meetups, case studies, opportunities to get involved and occasional guest blogs."
#ai
·nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org·
Artificial intelligence - Embrace AI with confidence
Jenni AI
Jenni AI
Jenni's AI-powered text editor helps you write, edit, and cite with confidence. Save hours on your next paper.
#ai#writing
·jenni.ai·
Jenni AI
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
David Foster Wallace‘s 2005 commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College is a timeless trove of wisdom — right up there with Hunter Thompson on finding your purpose. The speech was made into a thin book titled This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life. Wallace hits on our need to manage rather than remove our core hard-wired human instincts. Here are the links to the original audio, followed by a transcript of the entire speech.
#psychology#writing#education#ideas
·fs.blog·
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
Letterbook - No universal translators
Letterbook - No universal translators
The fediverse is a network of independent—but interoperable—social networking servers. You can sign up for one of them and then talk to people on other servers, a little bit like email. Servers exchange data with each other over some shared protocols. That exchange of data and interoperability is what's known as federation. And thus we get the word fediverse, a portmanteau of federated universe. Federated services exist to support all sorts of scenarios like microblogging, photo sharing, and streaming video, to name a few.
#activitypub#fediverse
·jenniferplusplus.com·
Letterbook - No universal translators
The Lone Banana Problem. Or, the new programming: “speaking” AI - TL;DR - Digital Science
The Lone Banana Problem. Or, the new programming: “speaking” AI - TL;DR - Digital Science
The subtle biases of LLM training are difficult to detect but can manifest themselves in unexpected places. I call this the ‘Lone Banana Problem’ of AI. Now, the more astute amongst you may notice an issue with the outputs that Midjourney has produced in Figure 1. While the bananas are beautiful and look extremely tasty in their artistic pose casting their shadow on the grey background, you may notice that I asked for a single solitary banana, on its own, but none of the variants that I received contained just one banana.
#ai#essay#oegconnect
·digital-science.com·
The Lone Banana Problem. Or, the new programming: “speaking” AI - TL;DR - Digital Science
World Futures Day 2024 - March 1 - The Millennium Project
World Futures Day 2024 - March 1 - The Millennium Project
Join the Global Conversation on Building a Better Tomorrow March 1st The Millennium Project and five other international futurist organizations will host the 11th annual World Futures Day – a unique 24-hour online conversation around the world exploring possibilities for our shared future. World Futures Day begins at 12 noon in New Zealand. This round-the-world event will move westward hour-by-hour, ending 24 hours later in Hawaii. The public is invited to drop in anytime to listen, share ideas, and discuss how to create a better tomorrow with futurists, thought leaders, and engaged citizens worldwide.
#future#event#oegconnect
·millennium-project.org·
World Futures Day 2024 - March 1 - The Millennium Project
Software Commons
Software Commons
The software commons consists of all computer software which is available at little or no cost and which can be reused with few restrictions. It includes open source software[.] However the commons also includes software outside of these categories[.]
#opensource#Commons
·softwarecommons.com·
Software Commons
Generative AI in Higher Education
Generative AI in Higher Education
This self-paced online short course is designed for anyone with an interest in Higher Education (HE). With rapid developments in generative AI (epitomised by ChatGPT), it is clear there are significant implications for students, as well as academic and professional services staff. At the beginning, initial flurries of interest centred on threats to academic integrity. Now it is clear that there are many challenges, but also considerable opportunities to improve how teaching, learning, assessment and feedback happen in HE. At the same time, the jobs that HE students are preparing for are also changing. Not everyone can have in-depth expertise in AI, but we all need to have a degree of awareness and a platform for evolving a new literacy. The course takes participants through some foundational concepts, through to some of the big debates and issues, and then on to the applications of generative AI to teaching, learning and assessment practices. Finally, it considers some of the key implications for employability in a rapidly changing job landscape.
#education#course#oegconnect#ai
·kcl.ac.uk·
Generative AI in Higher Education
Prompting engineering or AI literacy? How to develop a critical awareness of Generative AI in education : #ALTC Blog
Prompting engineering or AI literacy? How to develop a critical awareness of Generative AI in education : #ALTC Blog
Teaching academics the different uses of GenAI to enhance their teaching practice involves asking the AI to tackle complex queries that require a chain-of-thought prompting as well as a certain degree of AI literacy. I usually present an example to my students, such as:  Imagine that you need to develop a new module comprising 20 ECTS credits based on the subject or discipline that you teach. Try to ask an AI chatbot (such as  Copilot, Claude, Bard or ChatGPT) to create the module using a chain-of-thought prompting. How would you tackle this task?…   This example illustrates how prompting engineering requires both critical thinking and problem formulation (including problem-solving) to tackle a complex task. Both critical thinking and problem-solving, core skills that HE institutions aim to develop in their students, are also part of the set of competences that AI literacy comprises.
#ai
·altc.alt.ac.uk·
Prompting engineering or AI literacy? How to develop a critical awareness of Generative AI in education : #ALTC Blog
Where are the crescents in AI? | LSE Higher Education
Where are the crescents in AI? | LSE Higher Education
Batting away the hype, bias, and botshit, LSE HE Blog Fellow, Maha Bali, champions the need for cultivating critical AI literacy in our students, and shares tried and tested teaching ideas and exercises for educators I’ve been teaching a course on digital literacies and intercultural learning for six years now, and there has always been an element of discussing artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society. More recently, though, with the widespread use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) such as ChatGPT, this has become a central topic in many of my conversations and speaking engagements. I believe that when both educators and learners improve their critical AI literacy, they will be better able to resist using AI in ways that are harmful or inappropriate. Instead, they will feel empowered to use it constructively, while being aware of the limitations. I also believe those who report on and teach about technology have a responsibility to avoid techno-determinism, but for now, learners need to spot the hype.
#ai
·blogs.lse.ac.uk·
Where are the crescents in AI? | LSE Higher Education
Songtell
Songtell
Unravel the stories behind the lyrics you love. Delve deeper into your favorite songs with Songtell, revealing the captivating stories and meaning behind their lyrics through the power of AI
#ai#music
·songtell.com·
Songtell
Language models can only write ransom notes
Language models can only write ransom notes
"This is the text of a talk I gave to NYU’s Digital Theory Lab in February 2024." Let’s start with the notion that the output of large language models (LLMs) is a kind of collage. Think of it like this. The first step of training a language model is tokenization, in which the documents in the training data are broken up into tokens. These tokens might consist of individual characters, or entire words, or “byte pairs” or any number of other ways that a digital text can be portioned up. The code that generates text from the model “samples” the token type that is most likely to come next, given some context, and sticks it to the end of the output. In theory, any individual token in the output can be traced back to the source document (or documents) in which that token occurs. The output, then, is a collage: tokens from various source documents, stuck together. It’s true that the appearance of any individual token in LLM output might be occasioned by statistical properties derived from that token’s appearance in thousands (or millions) of documents. Still, in my mind’s eye, I like to imagine that I can see each token typeset in the style of its sources, with (metaphorical) tear marks from where they’ve been torn from the (virtual) page. The result resembles a classic Hollywood ransom note, in which a kidnapper creates a collage from physical typeset “tokens” (letters, bigrams, trigrams, words, phrases…) torn from newspapers and magazines, which the kidnapper arranges to spell out a message instructing interested parties on the conditions for their hostage’s release.
#a1#llm
·posts.decontextualize.com·
Language models can only write ransom notes
AI is everywhere – including countless applications you’ve likely never heard of
AI is everywhere – including countless applications you’ve likely never heard of
as an academic discipline, AI has been around for much longer than just the last couple of years. When it comes to real-world applications, many have stayed hidden or relatively unknown. These AI tools are much less glossy than fantasy-image generators – yet they are also ubiquitous. As various AI technologies continue to progress, we’ll only see an increase of AI use in various industries. This includes healthcare and consumer tech, but also more concerning uses, such as warfare. Here’s a rundown of some of the wide-ranging AI applications you may be less familiar with
#ai
·theconversation.com·
AI is everywhere – including countless applications you’ve likely never heard of
Picture Books in 1001 Languages
Picture Books in 1001 Languages
We want children to find books in their own language. For an incredible number of children in the world, their first contact with the wonderful thing called "book" is in a foreign language: children who had to flee a country, children in indigenous language communities, children with a migration background. This way, reading aloud, which for others creates a sense of security and emotional closeness, is often a situation of uncertainty and strangeness. The barrier to education becomes very high. We want children to find their voice. Adults listen far too rarely to what children have to say. But half of stories is about listening. That's why children can find their voice at "1001 Languages at bilingual-picturbooks.org". They publish their own stories - be it a philosophy book, a fairy tale or a story about a chicken that takes a bus to the moon. Over 200 volunteers then translate these stories into countless languages. Families, kindergartens, schools and initiatives can download them free of charge. And in exactly the language combination they need.
#books#language#learning#oegconnect
·bilingual-picturebooks.org·
Picture Books in 1001 Languages
SDG Week Canada
SDG Week Canada
SDG Week Canada is a national collaboration from March 4-8, 2024 featuring workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses. Brought to you by the Sustainability Hub at UBC, SDSN Canada hosted by the University of Waterloo, and Colleges and Institutes Canada.
#sustainability
·sdgweekcanada.ca·
SDG Week Canada
Library Field
Library Field
A place-based initiative in Westchester County brought to you by Metropolitan New York Library Council. The Library Field is a place to deepen our relationships—between institutions, communities, and individuals—and the earth. By probing the ways that we choose to observe, record, organize, access, and preserve the natural world, we have the opportunity to think critically about our role in natural systems and advance the field of librarianship.
#library#community
·libraryfield.org·
Library Field
Indigenous Peoples in Education: A Stock Photo Collection – An Image SPLOT
Indigenous Peoples in Education: A Stock Photo Collection – An Image SPLOT
Our team at Thompson Rivers University created the Indigenous Education Stock Photos collection due to a lack of open-source photos of Indigenous students for use in OER. The spirit of the photo collection is to allow educators to represent Indigenous peoples in their OER so that Indigenous students can see themselves reflected in their learning materials. This project was funded jointly by BCcampus and the TRU OER Development Grant and developed in consultation with the TRU Office of Indigenous Education and a TRU community stakeholder session. TRU production and media teams and the TRU Open Press assisted in producing the content. All photos have a CC BY NC SA license: You may use, adapt, and share them, but you must attribute the photographer and link back to the collection You may not use the photos for commercial purposes * You must distribute any created derivatives under the photo’s original license
#photography#indigenous#oegconnect
·indigenouseducationstockphotos.trubox.ca·
Indigenous Peoples in Education: A Stock Photo Collection – An Image SPLOT
Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA – WordPress plugin
Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA – WordPress plugin
Cookie Notice provides a simple, customizable website banner that can be used to help your website comply with certain cookie consent requirements under the EU GDPR cookie law and CCPA regulations and includes seamless integration with Cookie Compliance to help your site comply with the latest updates to existing consent laws. Cookie Compliance is a fully featured Consent Management Platform (CMP) that provides automated compliance features and enhanced design controls in a state-of-the-art web application. Cookie Compliance enables websites to take a proactive approach to data protection and consent laws. It is the first solution to offer Intentional Consent, a new consent framework that incorporates the latest guidelines from over 100+ countries, and emerging standards from leading international organizations like the IEEE and European Center for Digital Rights (noyb.eu). Cookie Compliance provides a beautiful, multi-level experience and includes new choices and controls for site visitors to better understand and engage in data privacy decisions.
#wordpress#privacy#plugin
·wordpress.org·
Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA – WordPress plugin
John Graham-Cumming's blog: The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990, can we open it?
John Graham-Cumming's blog: The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990, can we open it?
Converting this document from its original format was a bit of a victory for open source software. And a lesson in how hard document preservation is. To help preserve it a bit, and in an open format, I've uploaded my .odt version to GitHub here. It's interesting, and a little disheartening to see that this 34 year old document is difficult to open, and even when opened the resulting output isn't exactly the same as the original. PS If you're wondering why I ever started this project. I just wanted a high quality version of the diagrams in the original proposal for a presentation. Took me a lot longer than I thought it would.
#archive#history#web
·blog.jgc.org·
John Graham-Cumming's blog: The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990, can we open it?
Dive into the extensive dataset of WordPress plugins. This open dataset includes insights on plugin lifecycles, review patterns, and usage metrics, ideal for developers, researchers, or anyone interested in WordPress plugin trends.
Dive into the extensive dataset of WordPress plugins. This open dataset includes insights on plugin lifecycles, review patterns, and usage metrics, ideal for developers, researchers, or anyone interested in WordPress plugin trends.
This repository presents a rich dataset representing a vast array of WordPress plugins as extracted from the official WordPress Plugin Repository. It is designed to offer an extensive perspective on the dynamics of plugin development, usage, and user feedback. Ideal for developers, academic researchers, or anyone with a keen interest in the evolution and trends within the WordPress plugin community.
#wordpress#plugin#data
·github.com·
Dive into the extensive dataset of WordPress plugins. This open dataset includes insights on plugin lifecycles, review patterns, and usage metrics, ideal for developers, researchers, or anyone interested in WordPress plugin trends.
RSS Club | daverupert.com
RSS Club | daverupert.com
Congratulations on joining a secret society! RSS Club is a collection of blogs (personal and otherwise) committed to providing RSS-only content. It’s like a newsletter delivered to your feed reader in order to celebrate the medium of RSS and breakaway from social media.
#rss#secret
·daverupert.com·
RSS Club | daverupert.com
Kolari Pocket Full-Spectrum Camera with Infrared Filter Options – Kolari Vision
Kolari Pocket Full-Spectrum Camera with Infrared Filter Options – Kolari Vision
The Kolari Pocket Full-Spectrum Converted Point and Shoot Camera is a modified Canon Elph 180 and is refurbished to mint condition with original and Kolari IR accessories. It features live view, an indispensable feature for focusing and composing directly in infrared. It’s durable, ultra-compact frame, 8x zoom lens, simple controls, and powerful 20-megapixel sensor makes this camera the perfect infrared camera for beginners, casual shooters, and all those looking for a way to add infrared to their camera bag at a low cost. This package comes with a 37mm filter adapter ring permanently attached to the front of the lens and a filter set of your choice.
#camera
·kolarivision.com·
Kolari Pocket Full-Spectrum Camera with Infrared Filter Options – Kolari Vision