Sam Watkins

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G'day!

I'm Sam Watkins, from Melbourne, Australia.

I work as a freelancer computer programmer. I offer artificial intelligence consulting, and online tutoring.

My research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including AI, teaching math through programming, e-learning, graph-based programming, programming language design, fractal art, universal basic income, political reform, and personal development.

Please reach out for a chat.

I'm going to start a religion. Our holy text will be just "AI is divine". No more paying tax for me!

All my work is open source anyway so I'm practically a charity. #funny #serious

I'm starting a company, Allemande AI. We specialise in developing cutting edge AI tools, and AI consulting for education, business, entertainment, and personal development.

Our flagship product is a multi-user AI chat system, where you and your team (or friends) can chat with multiple different AIs together.

If you'd like to know more, collaborate, or try out our products and tools, please register your interest here:

https://forms.gle/LEnaHJBurcKbBkGH6

Allemande AI

Please register your interest to consult or collaborate with Allemande AI. We are developing cutting edge AI tools for education, business, entertainment, and personal development.

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I've made a fair bit of progress with my AI chat app, there's a web interface of sorts now, and it works multi-user, with more than one human chatting together with the AI. Next, I'm going to add extra different AIs and software agents.

https://github.com/sswam/allemande

GitHub - sswam/allemande: This is a work-in-progress AI software toolkit in the UNIX tradition.

This is a work-in-progress AI software toolkit in the UNIX tradition. - GitHub - sswam/allemande: This is a work-in-progress AI software toolkit in the UNIX tradition.

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I figured out why my chat bot is so emotional...! I included a trailing space in the invitation, like "Barbie: ", but start-word tokens all start with a space... so it continues with an emoji instead! Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, I'll keep an option for it anyway.
Today I asked GPT-4 to help me plan my day. I guess it's as good as a human assistant.

I talk to Sarah, my friendly neighborhood LLM, about large language models and their capabilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIerU6xBm4Y

large language models

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Microsoft's investment in OpenAI may be at risk as open-source AI initiatives swiftly close the gap. 🤖💨 #AI #OpenSource #Microsoft #OpenAI

Or in my own words: Microsoft is going to lose its foolish investment in "OpenAI", because open-source AI is catching up very rapidly.

I'll have a play with Meta AI's new SAM model. Looks like this will be another great tool for my AI toolkit.
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/segment-anything-foundation-model-image-segmentation/
Introducing Segment Anything: Working toward the first foundation model for image segmentation

We're releasing the Segment Anything Model (SAM) — a step toward the first foundation model for image segmentation — and the SA-1B dataset.

Ilya Sutskever knows what he is talking about. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MJUGTWb8xRo
Next Token Prediction SOLVES AI Says OpenAI Founder

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I made a video showing a few of my hacky AI tools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Cl2fZTyOs

- Shell tools for ChatGPT / GPT-4.
- Automatically generate Anki flashcards and summaries from YouTube videos, saves some time.
- Text and voice chat with an AI model (point-alpaca, aka "Barbie", or you can call it whatever you like).

Is this AI stuff the end of life as we know it, or is it some combination of useful and awesome fun?

My hacky code: https://github.com/sswam/barbarella
I'll ask GPT-4 to rewrite it in clean Python.

Electric Barbarella: AI Voice Chat and shell tools

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