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How Does a Large Language Model Really Work?
How Does a Large Language Model Really Work?
LLMs: Fancy Autocomplete with a Spark of Magic "Large Language Models are the path to general artificial intelligence, with capabilities even their creators don't fully grasp." "Large Language Models are just fancy autocomplete." Both opinions are controversial, yet correct in their own way. I like to think of LLMs as fancy autocomplete with a dash of magic. Just like the magician I watched, there's a simple explanation (no real magic or AGI), but also an impressive skill (crafting a powerful LLM). Today, I aim to demystify the principles of LLMs - a subset of Generative AI that produces text output. Understanding how tools like ChatGPT generate both magical and sometimes oddly dumb responses will set you apart from the average user, allowing you to utilize them for more than just basic tasks.
#llm#ai#oegconnect
·blog.tobiaszwingmann.com·
How Does a Large Language Model Really Work?
PubKit
PubKit
Quickly design and test ActivityPub objects with mock servers of popular projects like Mastodon and Pixelfed. We're behind the popular Pixelfed platform, and transformed some of our internal ActivityPub development tools into a public service that other developers and projects can use.
#fediverse
·pubkit.net·
PubKit
Emerge Poems
Emerge Poems
Emerge prompts users to create an erasure poem using seminal texts as a starting point for reflection. Creativity stations allow users to further personalize their poems with various design and crafting tools. Visitors can print and share their new poem, carrying on the dialogue.
#ds106#poetry#creativity
·emergepoems.com·
Emerge Poems
nownownow.com
nownownow.com
Most websites have a link that says “about”. It goes to a page that tells you something about the background of this person or business. For short, people just call it an “about page”. Most websites have a link that says “contact”. It goes to a page that tells you how to contact this person or business. For short, people just call it a “contact page”. So a website with a link that says “now” goes to a page that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life. For short, we call it a “now page”. See examples by browsing nownownow.com. Although it’s normal to make the web address “/now”, just like it’s usually “/about” and “/contact” in those other examples, the URL could be anything.
#indieweb#blogging
·nownownow.com·
nownownow.com
Design patterns
Design patterns
User Interface Design patterns are recurring solutions that solve common design problems. Design patterns are standard reference points for the experienced user interface designer. Design patterns provide a common language between designers. They allow for debate over alternatives, where merely mentioning the name of a design pattern implicitly carries much more meaning than merely the name. Dwell into the patterns below to learn a common language of web design.
#Design#interface
·ui-patterns.com·
Design patterns
Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.
Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.
Beeper is a universal chat app. With Beeper, you can send and receive messages to friends, family and colleagues on 14 different chat networks, all from a single app. Beeper is free to use, with optional paid subscription. You can use Beeper on all your devices — your messages sync seamlessly. Our apps are available on Android, iPhone, iPad, ChromeOS, macOS, Windows and Linux.
#chat#communication#software#tools
·beeper.com·
Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.
Offline Internet Consortium | Offline Access to Information
Offline Internet Consortium | Offline Access to Information
The Offline Internet Consortium is a collaborative of educators, technologists, librarians, researchers, and advocates working to provide universal access to information and digital resources where access is otherwise limited or currently not available. 
#internet#offline
·offline-internet.org·
Offline Internet Consortium | Offline Access to Information
Generate Random Images From Unsplash Without Using The API - Andreas Wik
Generate Random Images From Unsplash Without Using The API - Andreas Wik
In case you haven’t heard already – Unsplash is the place to go when you need royalty free photos to use in your projects, whether it’s for commercial use or not. While they do have a great API for developers, they also give you the option to simply access random images via URL’s.
#photography#random
·awik.io·
Generate Random Images From Unsplash Without Using The API - Andreas Wik
Library Futures | Connecting the Commons
Library Futures | Connecting the Commons
There’s significant research on the role of open education in higher education, as well as well-known uses of open educational resources (OER) in primary and secondary education. Whole journals and conferences are dedicated to the subject, and at colleges and universities, libraries play a key role in OER initiatives on campuses. Last fall, Library Futures began asking ourselves why public libraries haven’t been involved in these conversations about OER.  The question of what, if any, role OER could or should play in public libraries started with a small online event, which turned into a blog post, which turned into a research study to establish a baseline of awareness and interest on the topic. This presentation, delivered today at OER24 in Cork, Ireland, presents brief preliminary findings from this US-based study. 
#openeducation#library
·libraryfutures.net·
Library Futures | Connecting the Commons
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI - Lucy Suchman, 2023
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI - Lucy Suchman, 2023
I want to propose that we treat the existence of AI itself as controversial. The point of doing so is not to deny the achievements and injuries of data-intensive algorithmic practices but rather to challenge the misplaced concreteness1 that the nominalisation ‘AI’ effects. Put another way, my argument is that the thingness of AI, its status as a stable and agential entity, needs to be made controversial: that we need to prioritize critical engagement with the work being done by the figure of AI in specific contexts. To let the term pass is to miss the opportunity to trace its sources of power and to demystify its referents
#ai
·journals.sagepub.com·
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI - Lucy Suchman, 2023
What AI Can Do Today
What AI Can Do Today
We've analysed 5667 AI Tools and identified their capabilities with OpenAI GPT-4, to bring you a list of 30257 tasks of what AI can do today.
#oegconnect
·whataicandotoday.com·
What AI Can Do Today
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
The amount of AI-generated content is beginning to overwhelm the internet. Or maybe a better term is pollute. Pollute its searches, its pages, its feeds, everywhere you look. I’ve been predicting that generative AI would have pernicious effects on our culture since 2019, but now everyone can feel it. Back then I called it the coming “semantic apocalypse.” Well, the semantic apocalypse is here, and you’re being affected by it, even if you don’t know it
#ai
·theintrinsicperspective.com·
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn’t a nail | by Colin Fraser | Feb, 2024 | Medium
Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn’t a nail | by Colin Fraser | Feb, 2024 | Medium
You may have already gotten this, but I suggest that the release of ChatGPT was a little bit like the allegorical release of the hammer. Huge generative AI models like ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, Sora, and so on, are a new and surprising subcategory of AI technology with a wide and rapidly expanding range of potential uses. ChatGPT is great at things I never would have expected an LLM-based program to be good at, like writing certain kinds of computer programs, summarizing and editing text, and a whole lot of other things.
#ai
·medium.com·
Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn’t a nail | by Colin Fraser | Feb, 2024 | Medium
Models All The Way Down
Models All The Way Down
If you want to make a really big AI model — the kind that can generate images or do your homework, or build this website, or fake a moon landing — you start by finding a really big training set. brilliant visualization
#ai#images#Visualization
·knowingmachines.org·
Models All The Way Down
The Library of Unwritten Books
The Library of Unwritten Books
To check out an unwritten book, answer 6 questions, then: read; reply; repeat. Remember, as a reader-author, what you read is a reflection of what you and others have written, and where one ends a story is at least as important as where one begins. Respond in sentences. Ask to look around. Speak with others. Act upon the world. You are a reader-author. Act like it! The Library of Unwritten Books creates "novel novellas" on-demand. Unlike text-adventure games with fixed texts, these stories are an open-ended exercise in collaborative storytelling. You are a reader-author. Large language models (LLMs) mediate your collaboration, re-shaping and reflecting your words and those of authors past. This Library is a different sort of magic, for instead of transporting its readers into the mind of a single author it places us somewhere in the zeitgeist. LLMs, as we know, are machines for completing sentences. They work by predicting the next plausible string of words. As Ted Chiang observed, they are blurry JPEGs of the Web. We harness this fact to produce something novel based on the input of our reader-authors, the "compressed" writings used to train the LLM, and random chance.
#writing#ai
·libraryofunwrittenbooks.org·
The Library of Unwritten Books
Learning Planet Institute
Learning Planet Institute
Since 2006, the Learning Planet Institute has been dedicated to reinventing learning for all ages (lifelong learning) through collective intelligence in order to build sustainable & inclusive learning societies able to rise to the complex challenges we face.  The Institute’s mission is to explore, research and share new ways of learning and cooperating in order to respond to the needs of the youth and the planet. By encouraging and disseminating a culture, methods and tools for empowerment, it transforms organisations. Ultimately, it leads communities and supports “Learning Planetizens” to take care of themselves, the others and the planet.  To achieve its goals, the Learning Planet Institute creates research and educational programmes based on interdisciplinarity, diversity and initiative. This relies on the synergies between its activities: R&D (search), Education (learn), International Alliance (unite), Transformation of Organisations (accompany) and Digital Ecosystems (provide).
#openeducation
·learningplanetinstitute.org·
Learning Planet Institute
OpenQDA
OpenQDA
OpenQDA is a sustainable, free/libre Open Source Software for collaborative qualitative research. It is currently still in Early Access development stage, but can already be used and tested. 🚀 Register and test it now (early access): https://openqda.org 📔 Read the docs: https://openqda.github.io/user-docs/ Why does the qualitative research community need another QDA research software? Qualitative research projects are methodologically diverse and are increasingly carried out in teams. Existing QDA software is often complicated to use, expensive, or very limited in its capabilities. OpenQDA attempts to solve these issues with a collaborative approach to preparation and coding and a plugin architecture for extensibility. h/t Tom Woodward https://bionicteaching.com/weekly-web-harvest-for-2024-03-17/
#data#opensource#tool
·openqda.org·
OpenQDA
There Is No Ethical Use of AI – Finite Eyes
There Is No Ethical Use of AI – Finite Eyes
I it is basically inarguable that there is no ethical use of AI. There are some large, frequently-debated reasons, ones that any discussion of AI ought to lead with… Any of the five problems I list are arguable, but here’s the point: If you think even one of those items is an ethical problem, then the conclusion must be that there is no ethical use of AI.
#ai#ethics
·finiteeyes.net·
There Is No Ethical Use of AI – Finite Eyes
mlc-ai/web-stable-diffusion: Bringing stable diffusion models to web browsers. Everything runs inside the browser with no server support.
mlc-ai/web-stable-diffusion: Bringing stable diffusion models to web browsers. Everything runs inside the browser with no server support.
This project brings stable diffusion models onto web browsers. Everything runs inside the browser with no server support. To our knowledge, this is the world’s first stable diffusion completely running on the browser. Please checkout our demo webpage to try it out. You are also more than welcomed to checkout Web LLM if you are interested in deploying LLM-based chat bots to browser.
#ai#image#generator
·github.com·
mlc-ai/web-stable-diffusion: Bringing stable diffusion models to web browsers. Everything runs inside the browser with no server support.
How People Are Really Using GenAI
How People Are Really Using GenAI
From dozens of conversations with business leaders and chief learning officers around the world, I’ve gained a strong impression that what’s missing is convincing, real-world, real-life use cases. Are people really using these tools? Have they found ways for generative AI to help them lighten their workloads, increase their productivity, think through problems in new ways? The web is replete with surface-level examples such as “text summarization” or “generating marketing copy” or “code review.” But these sanitized, generic phrases read like items from a feature list and do little to entice the uninitiated. The devil — and delight — is in the details. To find out more about those details, my company, Filtered Technologies, mined the web to find concrete examples of it being used in the wild.
#ai
·hbr.org·
How People Are Really Using GenAI
Make Academic Alliance
Make Academic Alliance
We're excited to work with universities and schools worldwide to equip students with the no-code and automation skills to thrive in an ever-evolving global marketplace. And since we want teachers, students, and researchers to make the most of Make for academic purposes, we are offering free professional Make plans through the Make Academic Alliance. In addition, there will always be a dedicated Academic Alliance Manager to help our academic allies identify the best support tool for their needs. Make is a multicultural company with employees from 40 different countries working from many locations around the world. Thanks to this, the Make Academic Alliance can deliver lectures in person or online in several languages spoken by native speakers.
#nocode#Web#oegconnect
·make.com·
Make Academic Alliance
Use our Communities - NewsMast
Use our Communities - NewsMast
Newsmast is created, curated and run by a small team with a big goal. At our heart, we’re a charity – not a tech start-up. The Newsmast Foundation is diverse, democratic and dedicated to building safe, committed knowledge-sharing networks that change social media for good. That’s why we stood up and took action by building Newsmast. Newsmast is built on Mastodon’s open-source platform, bringing together key contributors, connections and conversations from around the Fediverse. That’s an audience of around 2 million from across the globe. There’s no algorithm, ads, or hidden agenda. Just good people trying to make a space where others can thrive.
#mastodon#fediverse
·newsmastfoundation.org·
Use our Communities - NewsMast
OPTE The Internet Map
OPTE The Internet Map
Since the Internet is an enormous amalgamation of individual networks that provide the relatively seamless communication of data, it seemed logical to draw lines from one point to another. This project has been a 17+ year labor of love under the moniker of The Opte Project. The map has been an icon of what the Internet looks like in hundreds of books, in movies, museums, office buildings, educational discussions, and countless publications. The map has also become a teaching tool, allowing visual learners to quickly understand the Internet and networking. ​Now I hope this map will be a teaching tool on why we need to build a new Internet with new core principles built into it. The Internet is woven into society, and by changing the Internet, it's possible to change the world.
#art#internet#map#history
·opte.org·
OPTE The Internet Map
Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter - World Wide Web Foundation
Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter - World Wide Web Foundation
Three and a half decades ago, when I invented the web, its trajectory was impossible to imagine. There was no roadmap to predict the course of its evolution, it was a captivating odyssey filled with unforeseen opportunities and challenges. Underlying its whole infrastructure was the intention to allow for collaboration, foster compassion and generate creativity – what I term the 3 C’s. It was to be a tool to empower humanity. The first decade of the web fulfilled that promise – the web was decentralised with a long-tail of content and options, it created small, more localised communities, provided individual empowerment and fostered huge value. Yet in the past decade, instead of embodying these values, the web has instead played a part in eroding them. The consequences are increasingly far reaching. From the centralisation of platforms to the AI revolution, the web serves as the foundational layer of our online ecosystem – an ecosystem that is now reshaping the geopolitical landscape, driving economic shifts and influencing the lives of people around the World. 
#internet#web#history
·webfoundation.org·
Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter - World Wide Web Foundation
What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools
What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools
Four years ago, I did an analysis of the open source ML ecosystem. Since then, the landscape has changed, so I revisited the topic. This time, I focused exclusively on the stack around foundation models. h/t https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=76389 The full list of open source AI repos is hosted at llama-police. The list is updated every 6 hours.
#ai#github#opensource#oegconnect
·huyenchip.com·
What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools
Beenius World
Beenius World
Beenius is a grounbreaking new crafting experience for anyone in the world. Connect Beenius Infinity Wax with Sticks of all kind. And integrate what you can find. bring your imagination into reality. And connect the world through play!
#interactive
·beenius.world·
Beenius World
Research Paper | The New Developer
Research Paper | The New Developer
In this new research launch from the Developer Success Lab, we share original empirical research with 3000+ software engineers and developers across 12+ industries engaged in the transition to generative AI-assisted software work. We bring a human-centered approach to pressing questions that engineering organizations are facing on the rapidly-changing possibilities of AI-assisted coding. How are developers impacted by changing demands on their roles? Where might there be emerging equity & opportunity gaps in who has access to these new development capabilities? What are the risks to the quality of technical work, and the developer productivity, thriving, and motivation which drive that technical work? 
#ai#software
·pluralsight.com·
Research Paper | The New Developer