Chris Bogart

@cbogart
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Computer science education research at Carnegie Mellon University
I canceled my Washington post subscription. I'm not mad about their endorsement decision per se, because I agree that presidential endorsements dont matter much. But the fact that influence gaming between two billionaires is baked into editorial decisions made me realize that I don't want to rely on news media owned by an oligarch. I can't be sure in what other ways he's putting his thumb on the scale, in ways that are less obvious.

"Almost everything has been done by someone else before. Almost nothing you want to do is truly novel. And language models are exceptionally good at giving you solutions to things they've seen before."

I collect examples of this kind of thing, and this is by far the most exhaustive list of practical LLM uses I've seen.

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/how-i-use-ai.html

/ht @emollick

#llm #examples

How I Use "AI"

I don't think that AI models (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped. In this post I will list 50 ways I've used them.

simple hack to remove stuck-on food and stubborn stains from metal cookware

#Caturday

ā€œThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, found vintage amateur photo" #AIArt #midjourney
Dammit I accidentally bought a pair of compassion socks before a long flight. My feet are gonna hurt but I vow to save all sentient beings.
Not enough songs telling us to jump anymore. Must have been a lot of lawsuits over sprained ankles or something.
"I find it very hard to hate the man. I can’t summon the energy; it all feels too much like a sideshow. Elon Musk barely exists. He’s just the name we’ve given to a certain mass delusion. I can tell you who I do hate, though. After nearly seven hundred pages of warm dribble, I started to really, really hate Elon Musk’s biographer, Walter Isaacson" https://thepointmag.com/criticism/very-ordinary-men
Very Ordinary Men | The Point Magazine

I know that I’m supposed to hate Elon Musk.

The Point Magazine

Itā€˜s december and you know what that means!

(Quelle unbekannt)

My daughter: "Everyone's so amazed that every snowflake's different, but no one cares that every potato is different."
ā€œthe night cafĆ©, found vintage amateur photoā€ #midjourney #AIArt