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Books, apps, and tools
app / uses
“It runs Whisper, and you can do things like you can paste in the URL to a YouTube video and it'll pull the audio and give you a transcript. So, that's how I watch YouTube now, is I slap it into Mac Whisper, and then I hit copy and paste into Claude, and then I use the Claude web app to do things.”
app / uses
“It runs Whisper, and you can do things like you can paste in the URL to a YouTube video and it'll pull the audio and give you a transcript. So, that's how I watch YouTube now, is I slap it into Mac Whisper, and then I hit copy and paste into Claude, and then I use the Claude web app to do things.”
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16 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“At the same time, they didn't get massively better than GPT 4, which was a bit of a surprise. So that's sort of one of the open questions is, are we going to see huge, but I kind of feel like that's a bit of a distraction because GPT 4, but way cheaper, much larger context lengths, and it [00:02:00] can do multimodal.”
02 / evaluation
“Like the few of those that have done well, I always feel like they're doing well because it's a gimmick, right? It's a it's it's novel and fun to like Like that, the AI Seinfeld thing [00:37:00] from last year, the Twitch stream, you know, like those, if you're the only one or one of just a few doing that, you'll get, you'll attract an audience because it's an interesting new thing.”
03 / evaluation
“[01:10:00] year. This one's interesting as well, because the thing that makes these interesting is multimodal, like audio input, video input, image input, which a year ago was hardly a thing, and now it's dirt cheap.”
04 / evaluation
“It's a bit of a, it's a total gimmick, right? But that gimmick got them attention, because they had a great product that nobody paid any attention to at all.”
05 / evaluation
“ChatGPT can never stake its reputation on telling you something useful and interesting because That means nothing, right?”
06 / evaluation
“Effectively, the JSON thing is, they're doing the same kind of trick as Llama Grammars and JSONformer. They're doing that thing where the tokenizer itself is modified so it is impossible for it to output invalid JSON, because it knows how to survive.”
07 / evaluation
“They've kind of deprecated plugins. They haven't said it out loud, but a bunch of people, but it's clear that they are not going to be investing further in plugins because the new actions thing is covering the same space, but actually I think is a better design for it.”
08 / evaluation
“I don't, I'm really frustrated by this because the, the language says you cannot train a competing large language model.”
09 / evaluation
“That doesn't seem to work anymore. I am heartbroken by that because I was using that for all kinds of shenanigans.”
10 / evaluation
“Yes. So in that case, that means that some of the thick barriers I've been running to are more the model being told no, pretend that you can't do it.”
11 / evaluation
“Because it, it just, it gives you so many capabilities that ChatGPT and even ChatGPT with plugins doesn't really touch you on, especially if you know how to use it.”
12 / evaluation
“Like cuz the, the problem if, if the function is delete my email, it doesn't matter if you get the schema right or not, it's still, it can cause a harmful action.”
13 / evaluation
“Is that pipeline and JavaScript have a million packages. So no matter how good your new language is, if it can't tap into those existing package libraries, it's, it's not gonna be useful for, which is why Moji is so clever, because they did build on top of Pips.”
14 / evaluation
“Like that's one of the things where I feel like, yeah, vicuna running on my, on my laptop is probably powerful enough to drive a sort of personal research assistant, which can look things up for me and it can summarize things for my notes and it can do all of that and I don't care. But it doesn't know about the Ukraine war because the Ukraine war training cutoff, that doesn't matter.”
15 / evaluation
“Is, is, is a better source of information for than Google now. And so, yeah, I'm not, it doesn't surprise me that Google would see this as an existential threat because whether or not they can be Bard, it's actually, it's not great, but it, it exists, but it hasn't it yet either.”
16 / evaluation
“There's good reasons to believe it is leaked from Google, and to be honest, if it's not, it doesn't actually matter because the quality of the analysis, I think stands alone.”