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  • Mind Readings: The Danger of Old Text in Generative AI

    Mind Readings: The Danger of Old Text in Generative AI

    In today’s episode, I address a critical aspect of training AI models—considerations regarding the content used for training. Many large language models have been built using content without proper permission, raising concerns about the appropriateness of the data. While using public domain content may seem like a solution, it often contains outdated or inappropriate ideas. Historical documents, textbooks, and newspapers may have historical value, but training machines on them can lead to undesirable outcomes. I emphasize the need for more thoughtful and intentional selection of training data to ensure AI models generate language that aligns with our desired values. Join me for a thought-provoking discussion on the responsible training of AI models. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you found this video insightful!

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    Today in the USA is June 19 2023.

    as I record this, it is the Federal holiday Juneteenth, which commemorates the notice that slaves were freed at the last major outpost in the US at the time, two years after slavery had officially ended, it was June 19 1865.

    Today, what we want to talk about is some very important things to think about with the training of AI models.

    And it should become clear in a moment why we’re doing this on jun team.

    One of the big things that is very controversial about large language models today is that they’ve been scraped together with a whole bunch of content that companies like OpenAI did not get permission to use.

    Right.

    And so there are a lot of people who are saying, well, we what we should do is let’s make sure we have language models that are trained only on things that either we have permission to use, or are free of copyright, they’re in the public domain.

    On the surface, this sounds like a good idea, right? On the surface, it sounds like okay, well, we’ll only use stuff that is in the public domain, we will only use stuff that does not need permission to be used commercially.

    Because the way copyright law things works.

    However, that’s problematic.

    And here’s why.

    Most stuff that is in the public domain is old.

    Not all that there’s lots of works that are people release into the public domain, or through other alternative licensing systems like Creative Commons, etc.

    But the majority of stuff that is in the public domain is in the public domain, because the copyright expired on it.

    Or never even had copyright because it’s it’s that old.

    With the challenge with old texts is they contain old ideas.

    They contain all ideas, they contain things that you might not want a large language model to learn from, for example, at the Smithsonian Institute, which is one of America’s largest, actually is the largest, I think, public museum, you can find huge numbers of old documents from the early days of the country, the text of those documents has been transcribed.

    And it’s freely available.

    And because the Smithsonian especially is a a federal government institution, there’s absolutely no copyright and neither works.

    So you’re like great, this will be a perfect source for us to get training data for AI that has no copyright restrictions.

    Well, this is a bill of sale from 1800.

    This bill of sale has been transcribed and the text of it is available online at the Smithsonian for free.

    No copyright.

    This is a bill of sale for a slave.

    This is a bill of sale for a slave named Sam was sold to Edward Rousey of Essex County.

    Do you want AI to be learning from this? There are contexts where you might you might have a specially fine tuned model that you use for doing other forms of historical transcription or historical analysis.

    But do you want ChatGPT to have learned from this? Do you want ChatGPT to associate the words that are in this with other words that are in this and generate probabilities based on it because that’s how large language models work.

    They are just probability engines guessing the next word based on all the words that they have learned.

    This is probably the most obvious example of really bad ideas that are language and are free.

    But you probably don’t want to be training machines on the concepts within these and having that be okay.

    Right? Again, there will be use cases where you’d want to fine tune model to process and help process other historical documents and that’s totally fine.

    But for tools that you unleash on the general public, not as fine.

    Think about old history textbooks, old novels, old newspapers, from 1900 1875 1850 1825, they have historical value.

    To be clear, there’s there’s no question they have historical value, we should not delete them or destroy them, they have historical value, but we should not be training machines on them.

    Can you imagine? And this is a very simple example.

    Can you imagine taking the knowledge from the maintenance of the Ford Model T And those concepts and applying them to a Tesla.

    Right? Really bad idea, really bad idea.

    When we think about how AI is being trained, there are a lot of problems with bias because human beings are biased.

    And in the USA, which is where I am, we have centuries of bias, beginning with slavery, and going to the present day of racial discrimination, of wealth discrimination, and literally every kind of and our written words are filled with these are written words are filled with these from 1776 to 2023.

    When I, when I heard, met a CEO Mark Zuckerberg say that the llama model that meta released was based in part on common crawl, which is the content of the web.

    Plus data from Facebook’s family of apps, facebook, whatsapp, Instagram, I immediately thought, well, that’s not good, because there’s a whole bunch of garbage on Facebook that I don’t know that I would want a machine knowing, right, in terms of, of curating and deciding what should be what content should be used for training a machine and the language it creates.

    So my caution to you, my recommendation to you and my recommendation to our profession as a whole can professional artificial intelligence is that we have to be a lot more thoughtful about what text we feed to models to train them on what images what the intended purpose of a model is, my general feeling is that a general purpose model, particularly one that you’re going to unleash on the general public, should be free from as much stuff that you don’t want it generating as possible, like, Do you want a an artificial intelligence modeled for the general public in 2023, to accurately generate a bill of sale for a slave, that’s probably not a great use case.

    Right? Now, again, there are conditions where you might want that to be the case, like if you have half of an old memo, half an old bill of sale, and you’re trying to infer what the rest of that bill sell, if you have it some damage historical documents, that would be a clear case where you’d want a specially tuned models that the general public does not have access to wouldn’t use to do that job.

    But in the general public model, I don’t know that there’s a really good use case for associating these words, and having a machine spit them out.

    And just to be clear, all this stuff is private, private companies and things.

    The rights that we associate with things like freedom of speech, freedom, to not be enslaved, etc.

    Those were government functions.

    And the government is required to uphold them.

    Private companies generally don’t have to.

    And there’s exceptions, like Title Nine, at least in the USA.

    So for a company to say, Yeah, we’re not going to offer that in our in our model is every company’s prerogative.

    And if you don’t like that, you can download an open source model, retrain it yourself, and have your model do what you want it to do.

    No one is stopping you from doing that.

    But I think this is a clear call to action for people working with AI to know what’s in these models, what they were trained on.

    And to be able to say, like, look, perhaps some things shouldn’t be in the training data to begin with.

    Because we’re not asking these things to be encyclopedias.

    We’re not asking these things to be search engines.

    We’re asking these things to generate language.

    So let’s make sure that they’re working with the language that we actually want them to use, and do our best to remove that from what they are taught.

    Again, don’t destroy the source data.

    The historical documents need to exist for a reason.

    But maybe don’t teach it to an AI.

    That’s today’s show.

    Thanks for tuning in.

    We’ll talk to you next time.

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  • Almost Timely News: The Importance of Open Source in AI

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    What’s On My Mind: The Importance of Open Source in AI

    Today, let’s talk about Open Source and artificial intelligence, because this is a topic that’s super important to me personally as well as to the growth of AI overall. First, let’s make clear our definitions. Open source software is software published as source code that others are free to use. What is source code? Most of the software you use on a daily basis isn’t source code. It’s a compiled product, in the same way that a loaf of bread is a compiled product of wheat, water, and yeast. The source code is the ingredients that make the finished product.

    Source code by itself usually isn’t usable, not for the most part (there are exceptions like scripting languages such as JavaScript and Python, but that’s another topic). When the source code is compiled, that’s when we get a usable product like Microsoft Word or Angry Birds.

    Most of the time, source code is closed, meaning that the company which wrote the code is keeping it secret. They don’t want anyone else to be able to take their ingredients and their recipe and compile them to make a competing product that’s just as good. KFC, for example, has never officially disclosed the 11 herbs and spices. Coca-Cola’s exact formula is a guarded secret. Those are examples of source code – recipes and ingredients – that are kept secret for competitive advantage.

    The challenge with closed source code, or closed source for short, is that the onus of responsibility to make sure the software is bug-free is on the code maintainer, in the same way that a company’s secret recipes have to be harm-free. There are, for example, trace amounts of cocaine in Coca-Cola (though the amounts are so minuscule, you’d probably get far more usable cocaine by randomly licking dollar bills). The Coca-Cola company has to be sure their recipe doesn’t accidentally have harmful amounts of cocaine in it.

    Open source code, or open source, is code published with ingredients and recipes. Everyone and anyone can inspect the code, the recipe, the ingredients to make sure it does what it says it does. This also allows other people to contribute to it, to write more into the code or edit it, as well as make a copy and customize it. But it does cause a significant problem to for-profit ventures: there’s really no way to market it. Open source by definition is free and open, which means anyone can take the code – the ingredients and recipe – and make their own product with it that is identical to the original.

    That’s why you see many open source software products run by nonprofit foundations like the Apache Foundation, the Linux Foundation, and others. They earn revenue through donations and some commercial licensing, but the core product is open and available. (This is also why open source products dominate the tech landscape: it’s hard to beat free) Not all open source products are run by foundations; for example, the Android operating system made by Google is open source. And critically, and relevant to our discussion, there is a burgeoning open source community in AI.

    Some products in the AI ecosystem are very closed, like the GPT 3 and 4 models created by OpenAI (which power ChatGPT) or the PaLM model that powers Google Bars. However, there are entire families of open source models that have sprung up everywhere, from OpenAI’s Whisper speech recognition software to large language models like Meta’s LLaMa and its derivatives.

    Open source software isn’t for everyone; what you trade in cost is time, effort, and knowledge. It’s trivial to open up a web browser and use ChatGPT, which is why it is so popular. It is far less trivial to go to GitHub, pull a repository, compile the code on your computer (turning source code into the finished product) and then running the code yourself.

    Indeed, if even reading the last sentence makes you slightly queasy, then you might be wondering why anyone would go through that effort when the easy alternatives exist.

    The answer, in a word, is choice.

    Open source software gives us far more choices and more flexibility than closed source software, especially in the world of AI. Let’s take voice transcription as an example. Go online, and you’ll find dozens, if not hundreds of SaaS voice transcription services. All of them promise the same thing: good quality transcription at varying prices. But almost none of them offer you substantial choices.

    There is a linear relationship between processing costs – time and computing power – and accuracy. The better the results, the more computing power and the better the model has to be to achieve those results. Closed source software and SaaS offerings are like pre-packaged meals in the freezer section. They’re stupid easy to make – just unwrap it, put it in the microwave, and your food is done. But you don’t get much choice in how it’s prepared; you have to hunt for the vendor whose product requires you to compromise the least. Suppose you need food that is gluten free, low fat, and low sodium; finding a vendor that offers all three is almost impossible.

    The same is true in AI. Suppose you want specific language offerings, plus accurate transcription, and a reasonable turnaround time. And suppose your needs are variable. Sometimes you want fast transcription, like the time you were about to run into a client meeting and you just need a quick summary of the most recent client call. Other times you want highly accurate transcription, like when you interviewed your favorite influencer and you want to get their words exactly right.

    Closed source software vendors and SaaS vendors don’t give you those options, partly because they can be bewildering, and partly because some offerings would impose much higher costs on them. So you get what’s in the prepackaged offering, and you get what you get.

    Open source software doesn’t have this problem. An open source package like Whisper runs on your computer and comes with five different models of varying size and computational requirements. You decide, when you build and run the software on your computer, what compromises you want to make – and they’re on a per job basis. You can decide how long you want a transcription to take, and choose how much accuracy to sacrifice.

    If closed source software is a pre-packaged meal, open source software is a book of recipes and a pile of ingredients. You have to decide how you want to make the finished product – but in the process, you have a lot more choice over it. You could make it gluten free, low fat, AND low sodium.

    Open source means more choice, and part of choice is censorship, or the lack thereof. I talked this past week about censorship in AI and how it negatively impacts models. There are plenty of tasks where you most definitely want censorship. You don’t want a chatbot that’s doing your customer service to start busting out racist, sexist, or bigoted language. That should be fairly obvious. But the tradeoff for that is AI that’s less creative. Again, with a customer service chatbot, that’s probably a more than acceptable tradeoff. For a chatbot that you want to use for brainstorming? Maybe you want the safeties off for that in a controlled environment, in a research or creative context where inappropriate responses aren’t going to cause material harm to others – and that’s another area where open source models can play a key role. You can use them without those safeguards and get more creative responses.

    There’s one other aspect to many of these open source AI projects that should be on everyone’s mind: privacy. When you run an AI model locally on your computer, and it’s self-contained (meaning you’re not using a third party service like ChatGPT), what you do with that model is completely private. Your data doesn’t go anywhere. It doesn’t even leave your laptop, much less go to a third party in the cloud. I talk about this in my Intelligence Revolution presentation – if you want to use large language models with ANY kind of sensitive information, you MUST use open source models locally. They are the only models right now where you have an ironclad guarantee that sensitive information isn’t leaking out of the contained environment you operate in.

    So let’s finish off today with the easiest, simplest, lowest-tech implementation of an open source model that you can get – totally free, runs on your computer if you have enough memory – and totally private. This is a piece of software called GPT4ALL, which you can download at this link. Find the version that applies for your operating system, download it, and run the installer.

    Once the application is on your computer, open it up. You’ll go through a couple of basic configuration questions, and then you’ll find your way to the models management menu on the left-hand side of the screen, labeled Downloads. From here, based on your needs and requirements, you’ll choose a model to download:

    GPT4ALL

    After that, you’ll select the model of your choice and use it just as you would use ChatGPT and other basic AI tools. Now, you’ll note that it might be slower on your computer depending on what kind of computer you have. Again, tradeoffs; when you use a service like ChatGPT, you’re using someone else’s hardware and software, with the limitations on your choices that they impose. When you use open source models and technology, you tend to have more choices.

    Open source software isn’t a drop in replacement for everything, nor should it be. But it’s an essential part of keeping the big monolithic companies honest, by ensuring that there’s more democratized access to AI technologies for everyone, not just the people who can afford it.

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  • Mind Readings: Large Language Model Censorship Reduces Performance

    Mind Readings: Large Language Model Censorship Reduces Performance

    In today’s episode, we delve into the uncomfortable reality of large language models. The safer we make them, the less creative and useful they become. By censoring these models to exclude profanity and sensitive topics, we inadvertently hinder their ability to generate contextually accurate content. Although it’s important to censor racism and hate speech, doing so affects the overall quality of the model’s output. While technological advancements and adversarial models may offer some solutions, the trade-off between creativity and professionalism remains. Join me as we explore the challenges and potential solutions in managing language models. Don’t miss out—hit that subscribe button if you found this topic intriguing.

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    Today let’s talk about an uncomfortable reality with large language models.

    That uncomfortable reality is this.

    The safer you make them, the less creative and useful they are.

    Yep.

    Here’s why and trigger warning for profanity, there will be profanity in this video.

    We use language as humans in all sorts of ways.

    But things like profanity, for example, is part of our language.

    The more that you have to censor a model, the more that you have to censor a piece of software to say to tell it don’t do these things, the more you constrain what it can do, and in the process, it loses context.

    Here’s what I mean.

    Remember that these models are nothing more than prediction engines, even the most sophisticated ones, the biggest models like GPT-4 from OpenAI, or palm two from Google with like, what 570 billion parameters.

    They’re just prediction engines.

    If I say I pledge allegiance to the, the prediction engines gonna come up with a list of anywhere between five and 40 different alternatives for the next word is going to score them by probability, and almost certainly the probability is gonna be near 100%.

    For the word flag, because I pledge allegiance to the flag is a very common sentence.

    When these models are trained on data that has been scraped up from around the web, among other sources, it builds statistical relationships from one word to the next.

    So for example, if I say I’m brewing the, depending on the context, the words that it was trained on, and the words that I’ve mentioned my prompt, it’ll choose a word like coffee, or tea or beer or the fall of capitalism.

    And in doing so, it’s relying on the patterns in language that it learned on input.

    If you look at a lot of the training libraries, explicitly declared or implicitly declared from big companies, for example, in in an interview with Lex Friedman, Mark Zuckerberg had said that the Facebook llama model was trained on data from Facebook’s many services, right, facebook, whatsapp, Instagram, etc.

    What’s embedded in most people’s language? Yeah, profanity, racism, bias, you name it.

    Particularly if you’re drawing from Facebook, I mean, there’s a whole bunch of people there who think that the world is still flat, which is mind blowing.

    And because it’s ingesting those patterns and language, if you then have to go back and say, don’t say X, or Y, or Z, you’re essentially handicapping the model, you are handicapping the model.

    And it’s not just going to stop using words you don’t want it to use, but it’s also going to have to adapt and figure out how to use words in less creative ways that don’t evoke those topics.

    So if you say, understandably, incorrectly, hey, don’t be racist.

    And there’s a good chunk of racist text that was fed into the model.

    Suppressing that not only suppresses racist language as you would normally want to, but it also impacts all the other words that are used in that context.

    And it impacts their overall probabilities.

    If I say, Go fuck yourself, all right.

    And then we say, You know what, let’s not use the word voc.

    There is a statistical relationship.

    In that sentence between the word go, the word fuck, and the word yourself.

    And if you see that a lot, and it’s a very common phrase, right? GF why these words are associated with each other.

    Now, if I suppress it, or try to remove or censor that the word voc and you’re left with Go yourself, which makes no sense, right? And it breaks the probabilities around those words.

    So those words go and yourself are actually going to be negatively impacted by the suppression of the profanity.

    To get it, how these words are related to each other.

    And the more you censor words, the more you have to come up with alternatives that may not be as good.

    Now, clearly, and let’s be very, very clear.

    It’s a good idea if you’re going to be using any of these models, particularly in any kind of professional context, to censor things like racism, and bigotry and hate speech and substantial profanity.

    But you also have to understand that it will cause computational problems in these models.

    How do you get around this? The short answer is if it wasn’t in the training data to begin with, it wouldn’t be a problem on the output side, but we don’t have control over how these models are trained.

    And there are very few companies that can actually build these things that have enough data to do the training like Google or Facebook or OpenAI.

    And so we have to essentially handicap the models on their outputs.

    Now, I believe there are probably some technological solutions to do this better that the industry isn’t talking about enough yet, I believe there are some interesting things being done with adversarial models, which basically say, you know, here’s what I’m looking for you to not do, and sort of getting into arguments, semantic and metaphorically, with, with the language model, to help it to not do those things more.

    But if you want maximum creativity, you would have to use a model that has also is has problematic concepts and textin.

    It Right.

    If you want to maximize what a model can do, you will probably have to accept that you’ll use a model that has a higher potential to say things you don’t want to say, right? So you’ll want have to build some gatekeeping in on on its outputs to say to to inspect outputs, and so that the model can be as creative as it wants to be, and then can get smacked down later on in the pipeline.

    So yeah, let’s we’re not going to generate the sentence back for generation over time, I suspect companies.

    And if I had to guess, company, my guess would be IBM, because they’re not known for being first to market.

    But they’re typically known for being best to market, particularly on the Enterprise stuff.

    I would expect companies like IBM to say, hey, we’re going to build a custom model that doesn’t include profanity, that doesn’t include racism, and bigotry and homophobia, we’re going to exclude those things from the source training data to begin with, so that it’s not there on the output, and the output side can’t be there on the output side, because it didn’t exist on the input side.

    And that’s what we’ll have to do to if we want models that are have not had their, their creativity handicapped, but also have not taken problematic texts and concepts with them.

    So the bottom line is if you want creativity, you also have to accept a model that has problematic text.

    If you want a model to behave professionally, you’re going to have to handicap it significantly and the outputs may be lower quality as a result, that’s the current trade off as the time they’ll mid year 2023 That I’m recording this.

    It’s entirely possible tomorrow, this could all changed by the way so it’s worth keeping your ear to the ground to see what other things are likely going to happen to help these models become smarter, and more professional.

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  • Mind Readings: What Will Make Or Break Spatial Computing

    Mind Readings: What Will Make Or Break Spatial Computing

    In today’s episode, we dive into the concept of spatial computing and its potential implications. Apple’s new goggles, Apple vision Pro, introduce their take on virtual reality and spatial computing. However, the success of these devices relies heavily on addressing latency issues, both in motion and input. Latency can break the immersive experience and affect the device’s usability. While Apple has a track record of delivering seamless user interfaces, the crucial factor will be how well they handle motion and touch interactions within the virtual space. Join me as we explore the significance of latency and its impact on the future of spatial computing. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you’re interested in this evolving technology.

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    Today let’s talk about an uncomfortable reality with large language models.

    That uncomfortable reality is this.

    The safer you make them, the less creative and useful they are.

    Yep.

    Here’s why and trigger warning for profanity, there will be profanity in this video.

    We use language as humans in all sorts of ways.

    But things like profanity, for example, is part of our language.

    The more that you have to censor a model, the more that you have to censor a piece of software to say to tell it don’t do these things, the more you constrain what it can do, and in the process, it loses context.

    Here’s what I mean.

    Remember that these models are nothing more than prediction engines, even the most sophisticated ones, the biggest models like GPT-4 from OpenAI, or palm two from Google with like, what 570 billion parameters.

    They’re just prediction engines.

    If I say I pledge allegiance to the, the prediction engines gonna come up with a list of anywhere between five and 40 different alternatives for the next word is going to score them by probability, and almost certainly the probability is gonna be near 100%.

    For the word flag, because I pledge allegiance to the flag is a very common sentence.

    When these models are trained on data that has been scraped up from around the web, among other sources, it builds statistical relationships from one word to the next.

    So for example, if I say I’m brewing the, depending on the context, the words that it was trained on, and the words that I’ve mentioned my prompt, it’ll choose a word like coffee, or tea or beer or the fall of capitalism.

    And in doing so, it’s relying on the patterns in language that it learned on input.

    If you look at a lot of the training libraries, explicitly declared or implicitly declared from big companies, for example, in in an interview with Lex Friedman, Mark Zuckerberg had said that the Facebook llama model was trained on data from Facebook’s many services, right, facebook, whatsapp, Instagram, etc.

    What’s embedded in most people’s language? Yeah, profanity, racism, bias, you name it.

    Particularly if you’re drawing from Facebook, I mean, there’s a whole bunch of people there who think that the world is still flat, which is mind blowing.

    And because it’s ingesting those patterns and language, if you then have to go back and say, don’t say X, or Y, or Z, you’re essentially handicapping the model, you are handicapping the model.

    And it’s not just going to stop using words you don’t want it to use, but it’s also going to have to adapt and figure out how to use words in less creative ways that don’t evoke those topics.

    So if you say, understandably, incorrectly, hey, don’t be racist.

    And there’s a good chunk of racist text that was fed into the model.

    Suppressing that not only suppresses racist language as you would normally want to, but it also impacts all the other words that are used in that context.

    And it impacts their overall probabilities.

    If I say, Go fuck yourself, all right.

    And then we say, You know what, let’s not use the word voc.

    There is a statistical relationship.

    In that sentence between the word go, the word fuck, and the word yourself.

    And if you see that a lot, and it’s a very common phrase, right? GF why these words are associated with each other.

    Now, if I suppress it, or try to remove or censor that the word voc and you’re left with Go yourself, which makes no sense, right? And it breaks the probabilities around those words.

    So those words go and yourself are actually going to be negatively impacted by the suppression of the profanity.

    To get it, how these words are related to each other.

    And the more you censor words, the more you have to come up with alternatives that may not be as good.

    Now, clearly, and let’s be very, very clear.

    It’s a good idea if you’re going to be using any of these models, particularly in any kind of professional context, to censor things like racism, and bigotry and hate speech and substantial profanity.

    But you also have to understand that it will cause computational problems in these models.

    How do you get around this? The short answer is if it wasn’t in the training data to begin with, it wouldn’t be a problem on the output side, but we don’t have control over how these models are trained.

    And there are very few companies that can actually build these things that have enough data to do the training like Google or Facebook or OpenAI.

    And so we have to essentially handicap the models on their outputs.

    Now, I believe there are probably some technological solutions to do this better that the industry isn’t talking about enough yet, I believe there are some interesting things being done with adversarial models, which basically say, you know, here’s what I’m looking for you to not do, and sort of getting into arguments, semantic and metaphorically, with, with the language model, to help it to not do those things more.

    But if you want maximum creativity, you would have to use a model that has also is has problematic concepts and textin.

    It Right.

    If you want to maximize what a model can do, you will probably have to accept that you’ll use a model that has a higher potential to say things you don’t want to say, right? So you’ll want have to build some gatekeeping in on on its outputs to say to to inspect outputs, and so that the model can be as creative as it wants to be, and then can get smacked down later on in the pipeline.

    So yeah, let’s we’re not going to generate the sentence back for generation over time, I suspect companies.

    And if I had to guess, company, my guess would be IBM, because they’re not known for being first to market.

    But they’re typically known for being best to market, particularly on the Enterprise stuff.

    I would expect companies like IBM to say, hey, we’re going to build a custom model that doesn’t include profanity, that doesn’t include racism, and bigotry and homophobia, we’re going to exclude those things from the source training data to begin with, so that it’s not there on the output, and the output side can’t be there on the output side, because it didn’t exist on the input side.

    And that’s what we’ll have to do to if we want models that are have not had their, their creativity handicapped, but also have not taken problematic texts and concepts with them.

    So the bottom line is if you want creativity, you also have to accept a model that has problematic text.

    If you want a model to behave professionally, you’re going to have to handicap it significantly and the outputs may be lower quality as a result, that’s the current trade off as the time they’ll mid year 2023 That I’m recording this.

    It’s entirely possible tomorrow, this could all changed by the way so it’s worth keeping your ear to the ground to see what other things are likely going to happen to help these models become smarter, and more professional.

    Thanks for tuning in.

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    Today, let’s talk about spatial computing.

    So this is a term that Apple came up with, with the launch of its new goggles, Apple vision Pro, and the idea that of spatial computing.

    Now, this is not a new field by any means.

    If you are familiar with Google Cardboard, or the Oculus headset and HTC Vive and all these other companies that make these, these virtual reality environments, spatial computing is basically Apple’s spin on virtual reality.

    Now, here’s the thing that I’m wondering about this is purely wondering, because I’ve not had a chance to test these devices.

    The local Apple Store obviously does not have them yet.

    So there’s no way to know.

    But the issue with spatial computing has not really necessarily been about image quality, or immersion so much as latency.

    So latency is one of the biggest problems within virtual reality within spatial computing.

    There’s and there’s a couple of different kinds, right there is there’s motion latency where if you are if you’re wearing this thing right on your head, and you turn your head, does the image move in sync with your body? Right? If there’s even the slightest delay, you notice, you can feel oh, that’s kind of weird, right.

    So that’s certainly one aspect.

    But the other aspect is input latency.

    And input latency is when you are doing stuff.

    So Apple’s device supposedly uses eye movement tracking, and your hands, the Oculus can use that.

    It also also has these controllers, right, so you use these controllers to control what you’re doing.

    And even these have a little bit of lag, not a ton.

    But it’s enough to break the illusion, it’s enough to, to to sort of throw you out now, in the controllers, the controllers are pretty fast.

    So that’s why Oculus, for example, had great games like beat Sabre, because they were very, very fast, highly responsive.

    And so you, you could pretend to have lightsabers cutting up these little objects flying at you on screen.

    But when you got into using their vision based where it’s using the onboard cameras, it was really terrible.

    Like it was a substantial amount of latency to the point where it was almost unusable.

    So that those issues of latency are really what will make or break a device like Apple vision Pro or the next generation Oculus headset or whatever.

    You’ve got to get the latency, right.

    And the good news is, at least for Apple, they have a good history of getting stuff like that correct.

    In terms of user interface.

    If you’ve ever used Apple’s pencil on the iPad, you’re looking at it fresco that’s $139 for a stylus, like that seems excessive.

    But when you try it like, Okay, this actually behaves like a real pencil on paper.

    And no other stylus feels the way it does on Apple hardware.

    It is seamless.

    When you’re painting.

    And like Adobe fresco, you’re like, Okay, this, this is pretty realistic, the pressure sensors, you know, let you draw.

    So I’m optimistic that Apple will get that, right.

    But it really is going to be the the motion in a space to be able to say like, Okay, I’m going to touch this thing.

    And you reach out and you’re grabbing your touch, and you move these things around in this virtual space.

    They’ve got to get that right, they’ve got to get that right, because that’s what’s going to separate and justify the enormous price tag even once they come out with lower cost models, because I’m sure they will.

    It’s called Apple vision Pro for a reason that will probably be an apple vision.

    And knowing Apple will be an apple vision, err, and Apple Pro Plus, Apple vision Ultra, our apple vision Max unit with Apple will come up with stuff like that.

    But it is the latency that will really define how this thing feels, and whether or not as a success, especially if you’re going to use it in any kind of industrial application or enterprise application where you want somebody to wear one of these things for four or five, six hours a day.

    There are virtual workspaces available in the Oculus, they suck.

    They are terrible.

    The resolution is not great, but the latency of moving around moving screens around and stuff in here is it’s just unusable.

    So this is why this is just now part of my backdrop.

    And not something that I use on a regular basis.

    So those are some initial thoughts about the spatial computing thing.

    Some things for you to think about as you evaluate these these tools.

    Yes, there are plenty of use cases we saw demos.

    During Apple’s announcements we saw all sorts of conversation, but when When it comes time to try these out, measure the latency measure how it feels to move around in that environment.

    And if it feels good, it might be worth the price tag if it feels even the slightest bit janky it’s probably not worth the price tag and it’s gonna give you a headache.

    So, that’s it for today.

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  • Mind Readings: What I’m Paying Attention To In AI

    Mind Readings: What I'm Paying Attention To In AI

    In today’s episode, I discuss what has captured my attention in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly the limitations and decreasing utility of large tech models like GPT-4 and ChatGPT due to increasing restrictions. I share my experience with content censorship and highlight the importance of open-source projects that provide greater ownership and control. I introduce five interesting open-source software tools: llama.cpp, GPT-4 All, meadows music Gen, automatic 1111, and tortoise TTS. These tools offer powerful language engines, local AI applications, music generation, image generation, and voice synthesis. Join me to explore the durability and possibilities of open source in the AI world. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you enjoyed this video!

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    In today’s episode, let’s talk about what I’m paying attention to in artificial intelligence these days, what has gotten my attention and where I’m spending my time, the big, the big tech models, like GPT-4, and ChatGPT, has the interface to it, etc.

    These are certainly very capable models, they are very good services they are in GPT-4 is case, sort of a jack of all trades master of none.

    But what we’re seeing is increasing restrictions on what these models are capable of doing.

    And this can be because of feedback that they’ve received.

    This can be because of decisions being made by these companies, but it reduces their utility.

    I’ll give you an example.

    The other day, I was working on a set of slides.

    And I wanted to include an image of a person holding a tape measure, and not being able to correctly measure a window.

    And I use the word limp in the description when I was using it with them the dolly system for image generation, and it kept saying this prompt violates our content policy.

    I’m like, a person holding a lip tape measure is not exactly shall we say less scabious.

    And, and exciting imagery, I It’s a tape measure.

    But for whatever reason, the software decided that that particular keyword was not okay, when I removed it, it was able to generate the image.

    And I’m like, Okay, I mean, that’s, that’s a bit of a stretch.

    And so, between that, and the ownership of of these tools, I’ve really started paying much more attention to open source projects.

    And what I mean by ownership is this, we are in a situation now where, as consumers, we’ve been conditioned to not own things, right.

    If you have Spotify, you don’t own any of that music, the moment you stop paying your bill, you no longer have access to that.

    Whereas say, if you bought a CD back in the 90s, right, from a musician, you bought the CD, and you have this CD, and you had this disc that you held on to and it was yours for as long as you want you owned it.

    And when we look around at the spaces, in things like software and content, yeah, we own very, very little.

    We don’t own much, you if you have a favorite show on Netflix, if Netflix decides Nope, we don’t want to show that anymore.

    Delete, you have no control over it, you don’t own it.

    And this is happening with things.

    For example, like ChatGPT, you don’t own that you have no control over it doesn’t run locally on your computer.

    And as a result, if OpenAI changed his mind about what content is prohibited, and that happens to include content that you’re working with, that becomes a problem.

    Open source software software that is open to the community that is typically free, is it solves that problem, because you download the software, sometimes you compile it yourself.

    You run it on your computer, and it’s there, it’s a local piece of software on your computer, that doesn’t go away, that doesn’t ask for more money, that doesn’t stop working at the whim of a large corporation.

    And it’s it is yours, right? That code is forever.

    When we think about AI tools, you know, you’ve seen the posts on LinkedIn or Twitter with people announcing the latest group of tools.

    And yeah, there’s like 200 new companies being started every day, in the AI space is the list is endless.

    Most of these companies are not going to be around six months or a year, and if you got used to doing business with them, and then they’re just not there anymore.

    That’s problem, right? You You’ve become reliant on something and you have to find a solution.

    If you’re using open source software, it runs on your software or your hardware on your on your laptop, maybe on your servers at work.

    And if the the project comes to an end, that software still keeps running, right? It keeps running until your development environment or your production environment is no longer able to run it back could be years from now.

    So that’s why I’m paying so much attention to open source in AI because a it’s where all the innovation is and be your own it.

    It’s yours.

    It’s on your laptop, it’s on your server, it’s on your desktop, and you can do with it what you want.

    Typically, there’s fewer rules or restrictions.

    And there’s no waitlists for new features.

    You just run the software and, you know, granted you have to have in some cases a pretty beefy computer to do it, but it’s yours.

    So the top five pieces of software that I’m looking at lately once called llama dot cpp, this is a, I would call it the probably the most powerful basic large language engine that can use almost any of the major open source large language models.

    This is a command line tool.

    So it is definitely not user friendly.

    But it’s extremely powerful, it’s very fast and very efficient.

    The tool that I would recommend everyone take a look at is one called GPT-4.

    All so if you go to GPT-4, all ChatGPT, that number for aol.io, you can download a desktop application, and then choose which models you want to use.

    This is very low tech, right there’s there’s no technical skill required to install the application.

    And that functions like what you’re used to with things like ChatGPT, but it’s running on your computer.

    Now, depending on the speed of your computer in the age of stuff, it may not run real fast, but it does run.

    And you can use sensitive information with it right when you use ChatGPT.

    If you were to paste in, you know, some credit card records or something and ask it to do pattern detection.

    You’re giving sensitive information to a third party, which is a big no no in things like finance and health and law.

    When you’re running a piece of software like GPT-4, all locally on your computer, you don’t even need the internet for that, right? No data is leaving your computer, no data is going to a third party, you were just using it locally.

    So that is a project that I recommend everyone take a look at it sooner or later.

    A couple other projects that again, these are more required technical skills, meadows music Gen is fascinating.

    This is open source music generation.

    And it’s pretty good.

    It’s pretty good.

    Now it’s an initial model.

    And there definitely is some limitations with it.

    But it gives you a sense of okay, this is where this is going this is pretty cool that it can with a sufficient enough prompt to generate a decent sounding piece of music.

    And of course, being AI generated, you don’t have to worry about things like copyrights, because nothing a machine generated can be copyrighted.

    And so you don’t have to worry about taking, dealing with royalties and all that stuff.

    Another project I think is interesting is automatic, automatic.

    1111 is the name of it now, but this is a web interface to Stable Diffusion, the image generation model again, this is something that either runs in, you can run it in a cloud environment like Google colab.

    Or if you’ve got a beefy enough laptop, you can run it right on your machine and generate images.

    So if you’ve seen Stable Diffusion imagery, the AI generated art, you can run this locally.

    And there are some fine tunes of the Stable Diffusion library that you can use to generate specific kinds of styles.

    You can also add in additional tools that will clean up the inevitable doesn’t quite get the faces right on people.

    But it’s a pretty cool tool.

    And the fifth one that I’ve been paying a lot of attention to is tortoise TTS.

    So tortoise is a relatively slow voice generator.

    So it can synthesize voices, which again is very useful if you want natural sounding computers to be able to speak now there are paid services like 11 labs that offer basically this technology, but in a in a SaaS base environment.

    But again, you don’t own that.

    And they have a lot of understandably, a lot of restrictions on what you can and can’t do with it.

    If you want to train tortoise on your own voice and have you know, reading out, I don’t know, some fanfiction, you wrote.

    And that would violate, you know, say 11 Labs content policy, but it’s your stuff and you want to have your voice doing it.

    These tools will let you do it.

    So that’s what’s captured my attention lately in the AI world.

    Yes, there are a lot of cool companies a lot of cool things happening.

    But I’m paying a lot of attention to open source because of its durability.

    If I’m going to offer a service or strategic advice to a client, I want to know that that recommendation is going to endure longer than six months, right? Especially for the clients gonna be building something on that architecture.

    I want to make sure that it has as a solid foundation and open source software is one of those foundations.

    So that’s the show for now.

    Thanks for tuning in.

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    What’s On My Mind: AI, Creative Writing, and Fan Fiction

    Okay, let’s talk about exactly how large language models work, especially in the context of creative writing. I was invited recently to join a group of fanfiction authors in protesting the use of AI to consume people’s works without permission, and they had a lot of good questions that I want to try working through in one big shot, or in fanfic terms, a big one shot. While today’s issue will be specifically about fanfiction, everything we’re going to talk about also applies to any kind of content on the Internet, including your marketing content.

    We will put aside the can of worms that is the questionable legality of fanworks (which is an ongoing legal debate, but in general leveraging other people’s intellectual property without permission means you cannot exert intellectual property rights of your own) to talk specifically about how large language models work, because there is a lot of confusion about them, and once you understand them, you’ll be able to make more informed decisions about how to use them.

    Let’s take a moment to clear up some terminology. A model is AI terminology for software. Microsoft Word, for example, is software written by humans, for humans to use in writing. A model is AI software, written by AI, for AI to use in writing. What we think of as AI software – tools like ChatGPT – are actually interfaces to AI models. So what are models? They have arcane names like GPT-4, StableLM, LLaMa, Vicuña, MPT, etc.

    Why does this matter? Because different models are good at different tasks. Some models, like GPT-4 (the most powerful model that powers the paid version of ChatGPT), are massive models that are good at many things, but excellent at very few. If you’ve ever tried to write some mature fanfiction, you know that GPT-4 and the ChatGPT interface simply won’t let you. It’s like the Disney of writing tools; anything remotely controversial simply isn’t permitted. But that’s not the only game in town. There are other tools like Bard, Bing, etc. that are very consumer friendly, and then there are specialized models and interfaces like GPT4ALL.

    For the rest of this piece, we’ll be talking about the models themselves, as opposed to their interfaces, because it’s the models that do all the work, and the models are where controversies lay.

    First, let’s talk about how these large language models are built. We will leave out tokenization and embeddings and all the fancy tech talk in favor of framing everything in terms of… pizza.

    How do you make a good pizza? There are a gazillion different ways to make it, but generally it’s a dough with tomato sauce and cheese, baked in an oven. Of course there are variations like alfredo sauce pizzas or dessert pizzas, but most of the time, when you say pizza, you’re thinking of flat round dough with tomato sauce, cheese, and toppings.

    Now suppose you wanted to teach an AI how to make pizza. How would you do it? You would find as many pizzas as you possibly could and feed them to AI to learn from all those samples. Over time, with enough pizzas and enough time, a machine will learn that generally, pizza is flattened, round dough with tomato sauce and cheese. It will also be severely overweight.

    You’ll have a lot of variations, like whether to add sugar to the sauce or not, or what kind of cheese to use. You’ll have big groups of common variations like Chicago deep dish versus New York slice. And what is the machine doing? Taking all those pizzas it ate and boiling down those dining experiences into recipes.

    This is a key point to understand about large language models. The source texts themselves are not in large language models, any more than a cookbook of pizza recipes is made of actual pizzas. When a company makes a large language model, what’s being stored are the statistical probabilities of words and their relationship to each other – in essence, very fancy recipes, but not the original texts themselves.

    So if source texts are not in large language models, then what is in there? The frequencies and statistical relationships of words to each other. For example, take this passage from a fan fiction piece:

    The two women walked through the expansive lobby, decorated with the latest scientific achievements from around the company. Nearly lunchtime, the lobby’s enormous glass walls had rotated open, allowing fresh air into the building and open air dining at the ground floor employee cafe. Lena’s stride skipped a step as a notification pinged on her smartwatch. She held it up, glanced at it quickly, then took Kara’s hand and squeezed it three times. Kara nodded silently as they made their way to the elevator bank. Once the doors closed, Lena swiped her ID against the scanner and the elevator began its descent into the basement levels of LuthorCorp.

    Is this exact text in a model like GPT-4? No. What is? The first stage of processing is something that looks a bit like this:

    Tokenization

    The colored boxes are how an AI identifies the pieces of text to start collecting data on, which leads to converting the text into this:

    Vectorization

    And then this becomes a series of math equations, shorthand for the recipe needed to replicate similar kinds of language to the source material. That’s what the machine has been fed – not even this series of numbers, but a series of math equations distilled from it. It knows, from this small sample, that the word Kara and the word Lena co-occur a lot AND are related to each other statistically, but the source text isn’t in the model – and critically, the model has absolutely no understanding of the text. Machines can’t read. They can only calculate probabilities.

    So, back to our pizza analogy, once the model has a huge index of pizza recipes that define pizza, AI companies then test it repeatedly, asking it to make different kinds of pizza in a process called supervised fine-tuning. When it makes a sphere of dough, model makers tell it no, that doesn’t fit the model of what a pizza is. When it puts pineapple on pizza, model makers argue with each other for hours in the office before grudgingly allowing it. The machines eventually end up rewriting their cookbooks many times over as they receive feedback that what they thought was a good pizza was not, in fact, good pizza.

    Supervised fine-tuning helps large language models do less of the wrong things like generate gibberish or problematic text, and more of the right things. This process requires a ton of human supervision and weeks, if not months, of fact-checking over and over again that the machine is doing things correctly or not.

    Finally, model makers for the most sophisticated models do what’s called reinforcement learning with human feedback. In pizza parlance, customers give feedback on machine generated pizzas, about which pizza best matched what they asked for and how it tasted. RLHF is a very time and person intensive process, but this eventually leads to pretty good pizzas.

    This exact process is how LLMs work. They are fed with huge amount of scraped data to learn what to do, essentially boiling down that text down into statistical probabilities that represent the texts in the same way that recipes represent the foods they’re intended to make. Then the models are fine tuned to make fewer mistakes, and then they’re given even more feedback from real world usage.

    This is why things like copyright and sources are so difficult to untangle when it comes to large language models, because not only are the source texts not in the model, but the exact word for word probabilities are not in the model either due to the tuning process. In our pizza example, suppose as a joke you put up a recipe for pizza made entirely out of paper. Supervised fine-tuning would end up disregarding many of the probabilities generated from that terrible recipe because, yuck, and thus what’s in the final model would only incorporate fragments of the original probabilities.

    A few folks have said, “But a sentence I wrote came out of ChatGPT exactly. That shouldn’t be possible if my writing isn’t in there.”

    There are two reasons this will happen. First, you wrote a sentence that is common enough that the machine would naturally generate it. If you write something like “and they lived happily ever after,” that’s not exactly original text. There’s a very good chance any generic phrase you use will show up in generated text because it’s so common.

    Or, second, you wrote a sentence that is so unique that when you prompted it for a completion, your prompt was so specific that the model only had one set of probabilities to draw from, and that was a fragment of your source text. For example, if you wrote a prompt to generate a fanfiction about a rare pairing, and there were only 3 fics on the entire Internet about that pairing, there’s a good chance any output the machine spits out for that are going to have recognizable patterns because there wasn’t that much to learn from.

    Now let’s talk about AI and its ingestion of content, particularly from sites like Archive of our Own. Can AI companies scrape copyrighted texts without permission? Well, it depends. What does it depend on? The laws in your locality. For example, the law is not settled in the USA. In the EU, the law is leaning towards prohibiting the scraping of copyrighted works without permission. Japan just ruled that AI scraping does NOT violate copyright, in an attempt to seize a leadership position as a country favorable to AI development. Obviously, this then becomes problematic for jurisdictions; Japan is hoping to attract AI companies by allowing them to build models in Japan (along with the jobs needed to do so), and then those models could be used legally and safely anywhere in the world as long as they originate and run in Japan.

    Is it stealing, as some allege, to use copyrighted or original works to train an AI model? Let’s go back to our pizza analogy. Is eating a pizza at someone’s restaurant and then going home and trying to write down what you think the recipe is to make that pizza stealing? It’s hard to say. Is it imitating? Absolutely. Is it plagiarism? Depends on how good the copy is. I can try to paint the Mona Lisa but it will be so bad, it will be a unique work of art. Bad, but unique – and no one will mistake it for the Mona Lisa, I can promise you that. Is it stealing? No, because theft deprives the owner of the use of their work. Intellectual property rights infringement isn’t theft. It’s a different category of law entirely.

    Now, let’s talk creativity and voice. Is the writing that AI spits out less creative? It depends on two things: the model and the prompt. Really big models like GPT-4 are jacks of all trades, masters of none. They tend to create more generic sounding text because they have to be everything to everyone. A model like MPT Storywriter is tuned for writing long form works, and thus it will spit out better quality fiction for the same prompt.

    The second factor is the prompt itself. Prompts are a form of programming language, except that instead of a formal language like Python or JavaScript, you’re writing in English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. But that also means that your prompts need to be as detailed as creative briefs to get good results. Imagine asking a writer to write a piece on commission, with a catch: you are not allowed to contact them again until the work is done. How detailed and thorough would you need to be to get good output, if you couldn’t ask or answer questions? That’s how detailed you have to be when writing prompts for AI.

    Writing a prompt like, “write a love story between Kara Danvers and Lena Luthor” is going to get you completely uncreative, boring prose at best because there’s so little specificity that our large language models – which are probability engines – will simply pick the highest probabilities to assemble a story, and that story will be boring. If you submitted a three page prompt with a detailed outline, character descriptions, plot twists, style guides, and writing examples, you’re going to get a much, much better, more creative story. (download my free prompt guide here, no forms to fill out, no strings attached)

    Do you want a machine to sound exactly like you? Then you’ll need to do something called fine tuning, a very technical process where you take all of your writing, prepare it in a format compatible with an existing model, and essentially tell the model to sound more like you. If prompt engineering is telling a model exactly how you want your pizza (and it getting it right to lesser or greater degrees), fine tuning is giving a model a bunch of your pizzas and saying “make pizza exactly like this”. It’s much more precise because there are a lot of little details and unique touches to our writing that aren’t in other people’s writing, and it’s hard to put those details into words. Giving exact samples is a much more reliable way to capture our voices. For now, the process to do so is fairly technical, but that will likely change over time as tools get more friendly and easier to use.

    Can machines be truly creative? Six months ago I would have said no, they can’t, because they can only draw on what they’ve been trained on. However, there are two nuances here. First, large language models have effectively perfect memory. The more specific, precise, and focused your prompt is, the more likely it’s going to have creative output, output that hasn’t been seen before. Second, there is new research that just came out in the last month for tools to harness the mistakes made by AI as a form of brainstorming. Sometimes AI tools simply screw up – but researchers now argue that these screwups could have potential as a force of creativity, a way for machines to be creative.

    Okay, so this was a LOT to run through, but it answers many of the areas that my author friends raised about how AI is impacting creative writing. Here’s the bottom line: AI is a tool. It’s a very sophisticated tool that most people don’t know the internal workings of, but I’d argue you also don’t know the inner workings of the car you drive or the microwave you use, either. As with all tools, AI is agnostic and amoral. It has no moral compass, it isn’t good or evil, and it can’t do anything on its own. It has no free will, no agency, no license to operate independently of us. Thus, when we talk about the dangers of AI in creative writing, in fan fiction, or in marketing, we’re really talking about the dangers of how humans will wield tool. Give a lumberjack a powerful tool like a chainsaw, and you’ll get powerful results from it. Give Jason Voorhees the same tool, and you’ll get a very different, equally powerful outcome. At the end of the day, it’s the person using the tool that will use it for good or ill, and as we try to set laws, rules, and guidelines for AI, we have to focus on what people will do with the tool, because the tool doesn’t do anything by itself.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Google Analytics 4 Up and Running?

    You Ask, I Answer: Google Analytics 4 Up and Running?

    Andrew asks, “Hi Chris – dare I ask about Google Analytics 4? Do you think people are making necessary effort to get it up and running?”

    In today’s episode, I discuss the crucial topic of Google Analytics 4 and the lack of effort people are putting into getting up and running with it. With just a few weeks left until July 1st, many websites will soon lose access to current data, despite Google’s clear recommendation to transition to GA4. The impact will be felt in two ways: data synchronization issues and the potential loss of valuable historical data. This will become especially problematic when businesses need to compare year-over-year data or comply with regulatory requirements. I delve into the challenges and offer solutions, emphasizing the importance of data blending and proper preparation. If you’re struggling with GA4 setup, visit trustinsights.ai/contact for assistance. Don’t miss out on this vital information – hit that subscribe button now!

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    In today’s episode, Andrew asks, Hi, Chris Dara asked about Google Analytics 4, do you think people are making necessary effort to get up and running? Nope.

    No, they’re not.

    And this is going to come back to people in a couple of different ways.

    The first and most obvious one is yes, as of July one, which is, as I record this, like 26 days away, there will be a whole bunch of websites will suddenly no longer have current data, right? They’ll go into their Google Analytics and go hmm, this, there’s no need for new information after June 30.

    Like, yep, Google’s been telling you for two and a half years, that GA four is the way to go.

    That’s the first and most obvious thing, hey, is thanks to stop working.

    I was talking to my martial arts teacher about that the other day, I moved his account over two years ago, because that’s the job of a student is to help the teacher.

    Second Impact you’re going to see is data.

    It’s not a synchronization, but as your data is going to drift out of sync.

    And here’s why.

    When you turn on Google Analytics, 4, it does not bring over your old data, your old data stays in the old system.

    And Google has said, as of January 120 24, they may they may turn off Universal Analytics entirely.

    Well, that’s kind of problematic if you need back data, and you just turned on Google Analytics 4.

    Today or yesterday, you have year over year data Beginning today, right? The day you turn it on as the day the first day next year, you will have your over your data.

    So you would have to rely on your Universal Analytics data.

    Until that point, well, that could be kind of problematic, right? Suppose it’s June 4 2024.

    And you want to do year over year.

    And Google deleted it.

    All right, that’s kind of a problem.

    This is even going to bite people in fourth quarter, third, and fourth quarter of this year, when again, they go to do their year over year, you know, strategic marketing planning, everybody huddled up in a conference room after Labor Day is like, okay, let’s plan our marketing for the next year.

    Oh, let’s look at our last year’s where the data, you go into Google Analytics 4 and go, Oh, we only have three months of data.

    And then you’re like, Well, hey, we can use the Universal Analytics data.

    But then how do we merge this all together? So people are gonna get real good at data blending, export of your old data, data blending and stuff like that.

    And, you know, there’s basic ways to do that, like, you know, just doing an Excel spreadsheets, but that’s really inefficient.

    And it makes it very difficult to ask questions of your data.

    So there’s going to be a lot of challenges for companies in that regard.

    And then the third area, and this is something we talked about recently on the Trust Insights, live stream is regulatory, for highly regulated industries, that are required to keep data for seven years, whatever, it’s not going to go over real well, when Google just deletes all that data in 2024, right.

    So companies would need to download their data and in a format that auditors will accept and be able to present to auditors in some fashion a form and retain it for a few years until the they’ve retained it for the conditions of the audit.

    And so yeah, people are not making the necessary effort to get up and running.

    And even in the places where companies have they’ve not done a good job of it.

    I was working in one client instance, recently.

    And it was a mess.

    It was a mess.

    I saw I saw this this one example.

    I’m not going to give enough details out anyone here but whoever had done it in the past had didn’t clearly did not have experience with GTA four, and didn’t understand the new event model and did not understand how to think about the way GTA four stores data.

    And so they, they created a bunch of stuff that was largely unnecessary, and really inefficient and difficult to use.

    So no, people are not ready.

    Which is unfortunate, because I’ve had over the years since Google started warning people to get ready.

    And it’s going to be very difficult to fix this after the fact.

    So that’s the answer to that question.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Jobs Lost to AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: Jobs Lost to AI?

    Phil asks, “I am unclear why jobs will not be lost in the content revolution you describe. It is not just that someone skilled in AI will replace someone who’s not. It’s that someone skilled in AI can quickly do work that might have involved multiple people previously, surely?”

    In today’s episode, Phil raises concerns about job losses in the content revolution and wonders if AI will replace human workers. While it’s true that technological changes create labor market distortions, removing a bottleneck in one area often leads to bottlenecks in other parts of the process. AI can enhance efficiency but also creates new demands. As long as humans are involved in decision-making and information processing, there will be a need for skilled individuals to handle tasks that machines can’t. Adaptability and lifelong learning are key to thriving in this evolving landscape. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you found this discussion intriguing!

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    Okay, so this is true, sort of.

    And here’s what I mean.

    Anytime you have a major technological change, you have labor market distortions, right? You have all sorts of ripple effects.

    However, when you remove a bottleneck from one part of a process, that doesn’t mean the whole process gets better unless that process is literally a single step.

    Most of the time, what happens is that you then get a bottleneck somewhere else in the process.

    So for example, let’s go way, way, way, way back in time, to 1764.

    And the spinning jenny, which is a, a textile spinning system, that allowed a worker to spin multiple threads into into fibers, much faster, could produce yarn really, really fast.

    So this traditional spinners, you know, the old Cinderella style, you know, the spinning wheel, and stuff like that, the Spinning Jenny did did that much, much faster.

    So this removed the job of traditional spinners.

    You needed far fewer of them.

    But what did this do to the rest of that supply chain? It dramatically increased the demand for the number of weavers who had to take all this stuff and turn it into cloth, right? Because you go from from fibers to thread and yarn to cloth.

    And so you now have this this massive bulk of extra yarn being created by these these machines.

    And now you have to you have a bottleneck at the at the weaving side of things.

    And then, you know, 20 years later, the power loom was invented.

    And that automated weaving of course, well, what does that mean? Now, you have the ability to create more cloth.

    And that means you can produce textiles much faster, which now means you need more people to to distribute, and sell stuff, because it creates these distortions in the labor market.

    AI will have similar effects.

    Right? Any technological change has huge societal effects.

    The smartphone dramatically changed the telecommunications industry, right? How many people used to be had jobs for maintaining public telephone booths? Right, those jobs are gone.

    Right? Those jobs are gone.

    There’s like booths now that they don’t they don’t I don’t care.

    The last time I actually saw a, a operation a telephone booth.

    And I want to say I might have seen one in London as a more of a historical curiosity and or it was something with Doctor Who one of the two.

    But there are, those things just don’t exist anymore.

    Are there still jobs for horse and buggy drivers? Yes, but not many, right? They’re largely tourist attractions go to a major city, there’s a horse and buggy driver who will take you on a carriage ride out, you know, horseback carriage ride around the city for tourism purposes, it is not a primary form of transportation.

    When those jobs get lost, other jobs tend to appear elsewhere in the pipeline and supply chain, until you get to a point where machines are doing the entire supply chain, including the demand side, you will still have bottlenecks.

    And where those bottlenecks occur, you will have increased demand for those workers.

    Let’s say you roll out ChatGPT in your organization, and you say we’re going to now go from 10 blog posts a month to 10 blog posts a day.

    Great.

    But you also say, but we’re going to make sure that it’s correct, right? We’re not going to let the machines foam at the mouth.

    So we’re going to need people to edit these things.

    Well, you’re one editor who was fine working on 10 blog posts a month and I was like, Ah, I can’t edit 10 blog posts a day guys.

    So all those folks who are on the content team who were writers, we need to either upskill them into editors, which presumably that’d be pretty easy transit transition, or we need to hire more editors maybe let the content but writers go so that we have more editors, so that to address this block now in the supply chain.

    I don’t see.

    I don’t see massive amounts of just lost jobs with nothing to replace them.

    I do see plenty of jobs where yes, that job will go away or the a large portion of that job will go away.

    But you will then have the supply chain constraints Look at the rest of the, the pipeline.

    Think about what’s happening now with, with fine tuning of large language models, the ability to get a model to be tuned to do exactly what you want it to do.

    And the innovations that are happening as of the date of this recording, with like local document stores that you can use to tune the model.

    The job of a model, Content Curator does not exist yet.

    But if this particular style of implementation takes off, and I think there’s a good chance it will, because it’s, it’s faster and easier than than full of, you know, supervised fine tunes of models than that people are going to need to do that job.

    And there will be a strong demand for that job for a couple of years until something comes along to automate that, and so on and so forth.

    Again, any place you’ve got humans, you’re going to have trouble scaling, right? People in general like to do business with other people, not all the time.

    And certainly, for simpler transactions, people would prefer not to deal with other people, right? You just want to, to go in, you know, press couple of buttons, get your driver’s license and leave and not have to wait 45 minutes and, you know, drink still coffee.

    That’s not a fun experience.

    But until machines are making decisions and doing purchases and stuff in the supply chain for information and knowledge, we’re still going to need people.

    And in fact, we’re going to need people probably more so than previously, because we’ve got to deal with the increased demand.

    Think about farming, for example, right? Farming used to employ 1000s of people per farm, to pick produce, to inspect it, to package it to get it to market.

    Now, a farm has far fewer of those people, right now farms have workers that depending on the crop, are driving with huge machines around.

    And these huge machines are processing the goods and getting them ready.

    Well, now you need people to handle the increased output of the farm.

    And the market itself is continuing to grow because the population of the world keeps getting bigger.

    And so there’s even more demand for jobs downstream.

    You do you need 1000 people picking corn anymore.

    Now, you can have one industrial combine that can do that really well.

    But you still need people to get it inspected, cleaned, shipped to the store, etc.

    Yep.

    Any more of them than our so the watchword for people in their careers is agility? Do you have the agility and flexibility to change? How you do business and your role within a business? If you do, you’re going to be fine.

    Right? In fact, you’re probably going to be more valuable than ever.

    If you don’t, you’re less likely to be fine.

    Right? And it’s not going to be once he was like, boom, overnight.

    Nobody, no one’s employed anymore.

    It is that’s not how these things happen.

    Even rapid technological change, that’s still not how these things happen.

    Because people move slowly.

    They are the slowest changing part.

    Katie and I over the Trust Insights podcast are gonna be talking about this.

    In the not too distant future.

    That technology moves real fast.

    People do not write this organic shell is pretty much the same as it was 50,000 years ago, right? Maybe less hair.

    But there’s less.

    There’s less change here than there is in in the large language model world.

    These creatures humans, they don’t change very fast.

    So it’s a good question.

    And there’s a lot to keep your eye on.

    But if you’re agile, and you’re flexible, and you’re a lifelong learner, you’re gonna be just fine.

    You can be more than fine.

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    In today’s episode, Suzanne asks, curious to hear more about which AI and other tools and channels, you recommend that content marketers, both writing and multimedia tune into? Thanks so much.

    Okay.

    Here’s the challenge with the AI space right now.

    There’s a gazillion tools popping up, left, right and center every single day.

    I’m subscribed, like 12, or 13 different mailing lists, folks who just highlight new AI tools, and there’s hundreds a week.

    So here’s what I recommend, first, get comfortable with the baseline technologies.

    So that means getting comfortable with something like ChatGPT.

    Is it the is the best system in town? No, not necessarily.

    It’s got some pretty substantial issues here and there, but it’s what a billion other people are using.

    And it’s okay, right.

    It’s the one of the core technologies get comfortable with a system like Stable Diffusion or dolly to which are both image generators.

    If you want the lightweight version of that, just go to Microsoft Bings image creator search for Bing image creator, that is essentially dolly to get comfortable with that.

    So ChatGPT Bing, image creator, get used to the search engine implementation.

    So Microsoft, Bing, and Google Bard get comfortable with those systems just as they are for basic multimedia, and, and prompts.

    And then whatever your specialty is, whatever your focus is, that’s when you start looking for tools within that space.

    And generally speaking, you’re looking for tools that fit your use cases.

    So this is something really important.

    We talked about this a Trust Insights a lot, building a user story, what is it that you want to do? Let’s say you are a podcast, as a, whatever I need to a task.

    So that outcome, that’s a user story, as a podcaster, I need to improve the quality of my transcriptions so that my closed captions on my videos are not as laughably bad, maybe that would be a user story.

    Once you write these out, you can write out as many as you want, then you’re able to look at the spate of new tools that are coming out every single day and go, Okay, I need this, I need this.

    And the other 198 ms email I don’t need to pay attention to right now.

    So that’s my general recommendation, you want to focus on the basics first, to get a sense of what the broad tools are, establish your user stories, and then get comfortable with the implementations that are specific to your job.

    Most software, most software that is even moderately complex to use will probably have language model integration.

    Honestly, I would say before years, and if, if big vendors are not keeping up, they are asking to get disrupted in a really big way, by what’s happening.

    So for example, Adobe just rolled out Photoshop, with a gender to Phil’s the ability to use a language prompt to do generative generation within Photoshop.

    Adobe has clearly seen that if they don’t have something in products, people are going to use other products and they don’t want that Hubspot saw real early on, this is going to be a thing.

    And so Dharma Shah, the CTO and co founder was like, Hey, here’s JotSpot.

    It’s wonky, it’s gimpy.

    It has issues.

    But we know this is a big deal.

    So we’re rolling it out first.

    So even the tools that you use today, they should be having these integrations coming up.

    And if they’re not, then it’s time to look for alternatives.

    But given how fast things are changing in this space, I mean, I listened to a talk from Andre Karpati, who was one of the founders of open AI.

    Nine days ago, as of the day I’m recording this, and some of the information not much, but some of it is already out of date.

    I gave a talk in Chicago almost three weeks ago now and some of that’s out of date.

    So it is moving fast.

    But it’s moving fast unequally.

    There’s a lot of change at the technological level.

    But that doesn’t necessarily translate to change for the user change for the non technical person.

    No ChatGPT Yes, there are big model changes and its architecture is changing underneath the hood, but it’s not going to substantially impact the way that the average person uses it.

    What will change is when these things get added to software that you know, do it in Google Docs and Gmail.

    co-pilot in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, when these software packages get these implementations, that’s when you’re going to see a big change.

    Right? That’s when you’re going to see prompt engineering and discussion about prompt engineering by accountants by janitors, by anybody who’s using Microsoft Excel, for example, you’re going to see a lot of discussion about that, because that’s how people will interface with these tools.

    So that’s my advice.

    Start with the basics.

    Write out your user stories.

    Look at what existing tools you already have that are incorporating these things and start building out your prompts for them.

    And then look at what else is in the field.

    If your favorite tools are not implementing these things.

    That’s that’s a way to keep up full, stay focused and not go crazy in all the hype and mania that we’re having right now.

    Thanks for the question, and thanks for tuning in.

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    I saw a glimpse of what the future of content looks like, and it looks great for us as consumers and as storytellers. As marketers? We’re in a whole lot of trouble. Here’s why. We’ve been talking about generative AI for quite some time now, ever since Stable Diffusion and DALL-E back in early 2022, then ChatGPT in late 2022. These tools fundamentally changed how we program computers because they take plain language prompts and convert them into instructions in ways that allow even the most non-technical person to gain substantial benefit from them.

    I said a while ago that literally every piece of software that is at all complex to use will have some kind of natural language prompt system built into it within months; earlier pioneers like Hubspot’s ChatSpot showed appetite from customers for interacting with complicated software in easy ways – with prompts. Just recently, Microsoft announced that the Windows operating system itself would have natural language prompt capabilities system-wide, so even mundane tasks like “move all my PowerPoint files older than a year into a subdirectory called 2022 PowerPoints” will be easy.

    Here’s an easy way to tell if a piece of software you use will have generative AI soon. If it has an API, or it has an internal programming language, it will have generative AI because the groundwork for code-driven interactions is already there. Windows and Microsoft Office have VBScript. Adobe has scripting tools. Blender 3D has scripting tools. Hubspot has an API, and so on.

    The ease of use that generative AI provides is now showing up in creative tools. A short while ago, Adobe released a beta of Photoshop that allows for generative fills. You select something in your image, then type into the prompt what you want the rest of the image to be. While software like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion have had this capability, it’s not mainstream and it was kind of a pain to use. Photoshop makes that easy now.

    But the big one, the eye-opener for me was the announcement of Unity AI. For those unfamiliar, Unity is a very, very complicated and capable programming environment used mainly by game studios to create video games. Some of the biggest and best video game titles are built in Unity, games you’ve either played or heard of. In the most recent release of Unity, 5.2, the company showcased AI-based generation of landscapes and other shortcuts to speed up game development. Go search for Unity 5.2 on YouTube if you want to see just how good it looks.

    And then, just this morning, we stumbled upon Unity AI. What is it? You guessed it: prompt-based generation of video game content. Now instead of spending hours, days, or weeks painstaking constructing scenes, characters, and sequences, generative AI and prompt-based programming will help developers accelerate their work, get to a first draft much faster, and spend their time refining the first draft.

    As with systems like ChatGPT, expect the first drafts to not be perfect, to not be ready to ship as-is. But what a first step, because today, the first draft for a top-tier title can take months, if not years, to create. Now, that sounds cool, but you’re probably wondering, what does this have to do with content marketing?

    The Unity environment isn’t just for video games. Because of the complexity of its engine, you can make videos with it as well, scripted video. If you’ve played any of the current games built on Unity, you’ve seen video cutscenes filmed entirely with the gameplay engine. They look great – highly realistic virtual environments and characters acting out a script.

    In other words, with engines like Unity, you can shoot cinematic video without leaving your desk. That in and of itself isn’t new, but up until now, that’s been impractical because of the huge number of steps you need to take just to assemble a single scene. With generative AI and prompt-based interactions? That’s going to be much, much faster – which brings film-making on a shoestring budget to a whole new level. Suppose you’re shooting a film and you want to shoot scenes or B-roll in other locations? With tools like this, you might green screen in your talent into environments generated in Unity – or you might not use any human talent at all.

    Think about what this means for content creators. High-quality video production will be possible with prompt-based instruction, in the same way that music production, image production, and text production are today with tools like ChatGPT.

    Look at fan and independent content creator sites like Archive Of Our Own. There are MILLIONS of stories that have been created by independent content creators on sites like those, written fiction that earns more traffic and more audience than most marketing content. Now imagine how straightforward it will be (not easy, but straightforward) to convert the best of those fiction pieces into videos, into series, into films.

    Think about any TV series that you enjoyed which came to an end or got unceremoniously cancelled. With generative AI tools, fans – whether or not they have permission to do so – will be able to engineer their own rich content in those worlds and universes in the same way they write fan fiction today.

    Do you see the problem for marketing? Yes, marketing will benefit from these tools as well, but there’s so much untapped originality, so much outstanding writing out there online, so many good ideas that would never get funding for a feature film or a streaming video series that could be turned into those forms of content with generative tools.

    And that means marketing content, which is already not the most exciting content in the world, is going to fall further behind on people’s must-consume list. There’s an ocean of content about to be created that will easily out-compete marketing content because it’s simply better content, a better way for a person to spend their time. We are headed to the bottom of everyone’s to do list for the most part.

    So, what should we marketers do? The solution is simple and extremely difficult: make content worth consuming. It sounds so trite, so cliche, so 2005, but it’s 100% true. Our competition is no longer Netflix and Disney+, but everyone who can and will make incredibly rich content with the next generation of content tools.

    Suppose making content – even on the shoestring budgets these new productions will have – is just not in the cards for us. What then? Well, there are a variety of ways we can participate and create mindshare in these new worlds, new environments, new content authoring mechanisms. In systems like Unreal, you need assets – content pieces that the engine can build with, like tables, chairs, soda cans, etc. If you’re a brand that makes any kind of physical object, you should absolutely be engineering and freely giving away branded virtual objects. A soda manufacturer like Coca-Cola should be handing out free virtual soda cans and vending machines like candy – with licenses for developers to use them – as free product placement sooner than later.

    Suppose you’re not able to do that. What then? The reality is that even though independent studios, film-makers, and game makers will all benefit greatly from generative AI for making content, it will still take time and money, just less of it. Your company could be the sponsor, the patron of productions that align with your values and your marketing strategy. A film that would have cost 10 million to make might only cost10,000 to make – but that’s still 10,000 people probably don’t have. Your company might not be willing to sponsor the creation of a10 million film, but would you sponsor a $10,000 film? That’s a lot more palatable – and if it’s a hit, then you get to ride the rocketship to the top of pop culture for your fifteen minutes of fame.

    Your marketing, in the new world of outstanding independent content, might evolve to look more like marketing from a century ago, when companies sponsored content left and right in an attempt to gain mindshare in new media like radio and the television. Look around for content opportunities and build connections with creator communities sooner rather than later, because this tidal wave is almost ashore.

    Finally, I want to reiterate something we’ve been saying for years now. AI isn’t going to take your job. A person skilled with AI will take the job of a person who is not skilled with AI, because that person will be able to do so much more, so much faster, so much better than the person who is not. If you want to remain highly employable, highly sought after, you need to be using these tools now, today, while they are still fresh and the disruption has upset the apple cart. This is your window, your opportunity to leapfrog less agile competitors, be they other job seekers or other companies. As we saw in the early 2000s with social media, the window doesn’t stay open for long, and once it closes, the winners are difficult to dislodge.

    You could be one of those winners if you act now, if you skill up now. There isn’t a course or a book or a lecture to take, because they don’t exist yet. There’s only knowing what tools are coming in your industry and getting proficient with them now, building your community, your personal think tank so that your ear is to the ground and you’ve got early skills in your field.

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