Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • Almost Timely News, February 26, 2023: Improve ChatGPT Performance By Understanding How It Works

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    What’s On My Mind: Improve ChatGPT Performance By Understanding How It Works

    Let’s take some time to deconstruct the architecture of a large language model like InstructGPT/GPT-3. These models, which power useful tools like GoCharlie and ChatGPT, at first seem like magic to the end user. However, understanding how they work will help you be more effective in their use. In 1957, linguist John Rupert Firth said in a paper titled “A Synopsis of Linguistic Theory” the following:

    “You shall know a word by the company it keeps.”

    This single sentence summarizes the entirety of how large language models work. Every natural language processing model in artificial intelligence is built on this axiom, mainly because language itself is built on this axiom. We understand a word based on the context we use it in.

    For example, if I talk about brewing some tea, I’m talking about a literal beverage made from the camellia plant. If i talk about spilling some tea, I’m no longer talking about the beverage; I’m talking about gossip. The word changes in relation to its meaning.

    But it’s not just the words immediately adjacent to the word in question. It’s all the words in relation to each other. Every language that’s functional has some kind of word order, a structure that helps us understand words.

    I’m brewing the tea.

    There’s a clear subject, me. There’s a verb, to brew. And there’s an object, the tea.

    The tea I’m brewing.

    This word order changes the focus. It’s still intelligible, but conversationally, the focus is now on the tea instead of me.

    Brewing I’m the tea.

    Now we’re so out of order that in English this doesn’t make much sense – verb, subject, object. Yet this sentence would be perfectly appropriate in Arabic, Gaelic, and a few other languages.

    The structure of a language is a matter of probabilities.

    I’m brewing the { } could be tea, coffee, beer, or some other object, but if you widen the window of words around it, the context becomes more clear. If the immediate preceding sentence talks about a coffee shop, then probabilistically, beer is unlikely to be the next word.

    What does this have to do with ChatGPT? The underlying model, InstructGPT (which itself is a sister to GPT-3), is built by taking massive amounts of text and converting that text into mathematical probabilities. If we look at the seminal paper “Attention is All You Need” by Ashish Vaswani et. al., this paper explains exactly how the transformer architecture – which is how ChatGPT works – operates.

    First, you start with a huge amount of text.

    Next, you convert every word and part of words into essentially a very large table, with the probabilities of each word appearing next to another word assigned to each cell in the table. Imagine taking a sentence and putting each word in a column in a spreadsheet. Then take the same sentence and put each word in a row in the same spreadsheet. Then calculate the number of times one word appears next to another word. Now do this over and over again for every sentence in your sample of text.

    That’s the embedding part. After that, there’s a step called positional encoding. This is where word order is taken into account – the position of a word in relation to other words is given mathematical weight, so that in English, “I’m brewing the tea” has one value and “Brewing I’m the tea” has another value. Because you’ll see “I’m brewing the tea” far more times than “Brewing I’m the tea”, the former phrase and its positions will have more weight in the model, meaning that when it’s time to generate text, the probability that ChatGPT will spit out “Brewing I’m the tea” is fairly low, while “I’m brewing the tea” will be fairly high.

    Here’s what makes the transformer-based models like GPT-3 and InstructGPT different and better than their predecessors: these positional encodings don’t just take into account the words immediately around a word. They take into account a LOT of text around each word – up to several thousand at a time. That’s how they know to generate “I’m brewing the tea” and not “I’m brewing the beer” in the context of whatever we’re prompting it to do.

    Now that we understand the underlying technology, what do we do with this information? It should be clear that words matter in our usage of these tools. Large language models can only make probability-based guesses from what they’re provided, what we prompt them to do.

    Which means that in general, the more relevant words in your prompt, the better the model will do. Let’s look at an example. I gave ChatGPT this prompt:

    Complete this sentence:

    “I’m brewing the

    It responded:

    perfect cup of coffee to start my day.”

    That’s a reasonable response to a terribly vague prompt. What does it tell us about the underlying model? By its word choices, coffee is associated with brewing, in the absence of any other context, and thus it created that response.

    Now, let’s add some relevant, contextual words to the prompt.

    Complete this sentence:

    “The tea house was packed with customers. I’m brewing the

    It responded:

    last pot of tea for the day, and soon we’ll have to close up shop.”

    Just by giving it a relevant starter sentence with a more relevant word – tea – it narrowed the window of probability and gave more weight to tea, ending up with a sentence that matched the context I intended.

    What happens if I add even more context?

    Complete this sentence:

    “The tea house was packed with customers. We’d been busy all day, and the golden rooibos was almost sold out. We still had plenty of yerba mate, but the oolong was starting to run low. As Karina retrieved the last box out of storage, she turned to me. I said, “I’m brewing the

    It responded:

    oolong now, so we can offer it while it lasts. Could you please start serving the yerba mate to the customers?” Karina nodded and quickly went to the counter, deftly pouring the hot yerba mate into gourds and adding just the right amount of sugar.

    I added very specific types of tea (yes, yerba mate is a tisane, I know) and got even better results because the inclusion of tea names – a type of jargon – is highly specific and changes the probabilities of what words should come next.

    The more relevant words in your prompt, the better the model will do.

    Working with prompts – prompt engineering – is a lot like working with keywords in SEO. The more relevant words you use, the better the results you get. Think of it like prompt optimization instead of search engine optimization.

    This is why I tell interested folks that these models are good at generation but GREAT at transformation. They rewrite like pros because they don’t have to guess what the words are, just what they should be using known probabilities.

    If you want them to perform better, write out longer prompts with relevant words that help the model quickly understand the context of your ask. How long? My best performing prompts are over a page of text long. They’re highly specific, they contain a ton of detail, a fair amount of jargon when appropriate, and specific instructions which yield repeatable, reliable results.

    In software development, this is requirements gathering. In creative work, this is the creative brief. In cooking, this is the recipe. You would never hand someone a two sentence recipe for baking a loaf of bread. You would never hand a creative team a two sentence brief, not if you want the result to match a vision you already have in mind.

    Not coincidentally, humans work the same way, too. In general, you’ll get better results with overcommunication than insufficient communication, for both machines and humans.

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  • Almost Timely News, February 19, 2023: The Buyer’s Guide to Expertise

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    What’s On My Mind: The Buyer’s Guide to Expertise

    This past week, a colleague on LinkedIn messaged me about an upcoming conference where someone who, in their perspective, was clearly unqualified to be giving a talk about AI was slated to present at an upcoming conference about AI – ChatGPT, specifically. This colleague’s rather pointed question was whether this bothered me or not (they referenced that a lot of crypto bros on LinkedIn were suddenly AI experts), and more generally, how could they know the difference between experts and people just hopping on the trend?

    So today, let’s go through a buyer’s guide to expertise. How do you know who’s a real expert and who isn’t?

    First, I think it’s important to draw a distinction – as Google does, in its Search Quality Rating Guidelines – between experience and expertise. Experience is something everyone can have, and whether or not we agree with someone’s experience, as long as they’re not outright lying about it, one person’s experience is equal to another’s. If I have a dinner at a restaurant and I love it, and you have dinner at the same restaurant – perhaps even at the same time as me – and you hate it, is either of our experiences invalid? No. We have had different experiences, but each is a valid point of view.

    Now, here’s where we transition from experience to expertise. Suppose I am a Michelin-starred chef and you are not. Perhaps we’re at a sushi bar and I notice that the wasabi is actual, fresh wasabi. You, being someone who is not a trained sushi chef, might not know the difference between real, fresh wasabi and regular wasabi. As an aside, in America, 99.9% of wasabi is just colored horseradish. Real, fresh wasabi is sweeter, more pungent, and highly volatile. Once it’s been ground, it loses its potency in about an hour, which is why the best sushi restaurants serve you a chunk of the root and a grater and you grate your own right at the table.

    Or perhaps we’re at a restaurant where pasta is being served and I, as a chef, can tell they used real truffle oil instead of synthetic truffle oil (real truffle oil, amusingly, doesn’t taste as strong as synthetic). That expertise might give me a different perspective on my experience, but I can also objectively say that this restaurant is a better restaurant than that restaurant because of their technical proficiency.

    My technical expertise as a chef is separate from my experience as a diner, and that’s one major difference. Someone can be on stage talking about their experiences with AI, with large language models like ChatGPT, and their experiences are valid. But they may lack the technical expertise to go into great detail about it and ways to use it that align best with the underlying technical details of the model.

    For example, a few weeks ago on the Trust Insights livestream, we walked through the underlying algorithms that power Twitter and LinkedIn, and in the process disabused a few myths about how they work. (feel free to use as many hashtags as you want, for example, it makes no difference one way or another) By understanding the way the system works, we can craft advice and counsel that goes beyond experience and into expertise.

    Experience is what happened to you. Expertise is knowing why you had those experiences.

    A second dimension of real expertise is something I learned from my martial arts teachers, especially Mark Davis and Stephen Hayes. Someone who is a legitimate expert knows the material, obviously. They understand it in a deep way. But what they have that separates them from others is they know what will go wrong before it happens. When you’re learning a martial arts technique, you can copy the rote movements from just about anyone. You can watch videos on YouTube to copy the movements like a robot. What you can’t learn without an expert teacher is all the ways that technique will go wrong, and a true master practitioner, a master teacher, will teach you and train you in all those ways a technique will go wrong so that you’re never surprised when something does go wrong.

    For example, in Google Analytics 4, Google supposedly switched to an event-based model as its foundational measurement strategy, and that’s more or less true. If you read the official documentation and all the tutorials out there, you’ll learn about the event model and how events are the most granular measurement, and with events you can measure everything.

    However, I can tell you with certainty that there are certain reports your stakeholders will ask you for that you absolutely cannot build in Google Analytics 4 because there are still scoping issues. You can’t use events and the month dimension together because they’re incompatible (you have to use the date dimension instead). You cannot use the datetime dimension with events either, which is really annoying when you’re trying to build a granular attribution model. These are intricate technical gotchas that you only know from both experience and expertise.

    In the context of something like ChatGPT, if you understand how large language models work – the attention algorithm – and you understand how embeddings and vectorization and a bunch of other arcane technical details inform those models, then when someone’s ChatGPT prompt doesn’t return what they want it to return, you can diagnose their prompt with efficiency and help them get on the right track very quickly.

    This is where expertise and experience diverge significantly. You can have a bunch of experiences with something but still not know why things went badly. You might know what to avoid, but you have no idea what the root cause is, only that there are certain things to do and certain things to avoid. Someone with true expertise can tell you why you had those suboptimal outcomes.

    A third dimension of real expertise is your network. You don’t have to know everything, and in reality, you can’t know everything except maybe in a very tiny slice of the subject matter, in a really detailed specialization. But the network of people around you who are also professionals in your area of expertise can probably fill in the blanks. They know who to go to – you – for your specialization, and you know who to go to when you need their specialization. For example, I know a casual amount of information about AI and law. My friend and colleague Ruth Carter is an actual expert in AI law, and they even have a law practice around it.

    So when you’re trying to evaluate whether someone’s an expert in something, ask who else knows them as an expert, and what they’re known for. If you see someone, as my colleague did, on stage talking about AI but their entire network knows them for misadventures with Bitcoin, then chances are they don’t have a ton of acknowledged expertise in AI. As my friend Mitch Joel says, it’s not who you know that matters – it’s who knows you.

    That’s the buyer’s guide to expertise:

    • Deep knowledge of why in addition to what and how based on technical principles
    • Knowing what will go wrong in advance
    • Being known for your expertise

    If you’re unsure of someone, these are the three areas to start digging in to establish or discredit their expertise. Chances are you will dig into any one of these areas and establish very quickly whether someone is an actual expert or not.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Value of Content Marketing in an AI World?

    You Ask, I Answer: Value of Content Marketing in an AI World?

    In this video, Christopher Penn discusses the impact of large language models on content marketing and the challenges that come with it. While these models are good at generating and refining content, the lack of an exchange of traffic between the models and content creators creates a new economic equation. Christopher suggests that instead of solely focusing on top-of-the-funnel awareness, content marketers should shift their focus to creating content that nurtures and retains existing customers. By investing resources in creating content that makes customers happy and building a strong community, companies can reduce churn rates and improve customer loyalty.

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    In today’s episode, Jason asks, What is the future of content marketing.

    Now with tools like chat GPT and other large language models, this is not surprising question after our conversation last time about the effects on SEO, in terms of the way these tools are going to impact content marketing.

    Right now, the tools are good at generating content, they are great at refining content, or transforming it from one type to another.

    This is easily seen when you take something like a transcript from a call and ask one of these tools, some of these large language models to go ahead and rewrite that as a journal article or a newspaper piece or something along those lines, where it can reformat the data that you’re giving it.

    Hence, the name, transformer generative pre trained transformer.

    That’s what GPT-2 stands for.

    And those are really powerful and very effective, what they do in the bigger picture of how these tools are going to impact content marketing is going to depend a lot on settling some legal issues.

    Namely, the data that these tools are trained on may not have what we know for sure has not been given conceptually, because you were probably not asking when these tools made their crawl the web, hey, can we use your blog as part of the training data set? This is also true for images, there is no precedent set in law yet that would determine how these tools could or could not use that data.

    But that brings to a much bigger question about the value of content, and the purpose of content and the the system of exchange that we’ve had in place.

    For the last 25 years.

    Now, we’ve had sort of a tacit agreement with technology companies, companies like Google and Facebook and Twitter and YouTube, etc.

    And the agreement has been this, we give you content for free, that we take our time and effort to publish and to make.

    And in exchange, you send us new potential customers for free.

    And that’s sort of the bilateral exchange, we make this stuff for you.

    And then you send us prospects, the large language models in particular, but all the generative AI models, sort of break this arrangement.

    Think about it, when you go on to the new Bing, or the new Google and stuff that Google borrowed from the demos that have been shown.

    Where is your website, listed in the citations and in the sources for these new models, if you look at beings beings are tiny little pillbox citations, like footnotes and the results and then the Google demo, there wasn’t any.

    That means that a large language model that was trained on our stuff collectively, is not sending us traffic back.

    Right.

    So it breaks that economic model, it breaks that model of saying, We’re gonna give you this for free, and you send us customers for free.

    Now, the large language models and these generative AI models are effectively saying you give us your content for free, we give you nothing back.

    Now, you don’t need to be an economist to figure out that’s a pretty raw deal.

    And so a big challenge for content marketers is to say, Well, if the economic equation is broken, why do we need to do content marketing? Right? Why do we need to publish stuff in the hopes of these technology companies sending us traffic when we know they’re not going to? This is not the first time we’ve dealt with this think about, for example, Facebook, in the first five years of Facebook’s public availability really thinking 2010 to 2015.

    They sent businesses a lot of traffic, a lot of potential customers, sharing links, sharing all sorts of content and people were thrilled people made Facebook a core part of their social media marketing strategy.

    Today, you know, really the last seven or eight years, that equation is totally different.

    Now, you have to pay for anything on Facebook to be seen at all much less to be able to contact your followers in any reasonable method or period of time.

    And your organic your unpaid reach is pretty much zero, right? So the economic equation changed however, in exchange companies have largely recognized Well, is there a point in publishing organic content to Facebook? No, cuz you’re not gonna get paid for it.

    Right? Your your pay is the form of new customers and if you get no reach, why bother doing it? That doesn’t materially harm Facebook’s model because a lot of the the interactions they are interpersonal reactions on a person to person basis and not business.

    As in something like training and building large language models, who publishes the majority of content online, there are certainly many, many individuals who published and post content blogs like the one you’re reading now.

    But there’s way more corporate content, right? All these different websites and such.

    And if the value is no longer in search for that content marketing, we’re, what is the value? Here’s what to think about.

    The value of content marketing, is not just as a discovery mechanism, it is as a nurturing mechanism.

    It is as a loyalty mechanism.

    And it’s those areas of the marketing operations funnel that we should probably pay more attention to anyway.

    Think about it.

    How much time and effort do you currently put into your content marketing right now at sort of that top of the funnel awareness slash discovery phase, I’d be willing to wager it’s the majority of your time, right? You’re trying to get improved search listings, you’re trying to get more traffic out of social media, you’re trying to attract eyeballs, you’re pushing out content on YouTube, and Tiktok.

    And all those places.

    How much of that content that you’re creating is directed at your loyal customers is specifically made just for them, and nobody else? Not as much as attracting new folks, right? It’s the same kind of thing that companies do with their marketing budgets, they spend inordinate sums of money attracting to attract new customers, and they kind of ignore the existing customers, which creates customer churn.

    Because customers recognize, hey, I got a better deal.

    If I abandon this company, and come back in a month than I that I get staying with them and being a loyal customer.

    So if you flip your content marketing strategy, to creating content that makes your existing customers deliriously happy, your content marketing will still serve a vital function, probably a badly neglected function.

    And in turn, those now very happy customers who no longer feel like they’re getting ignored in favor of you know, the new customers will probably be more likely to recommend you to refer you to spread news about you via word of mouth.

    So that to me, is the the sensible future, for content marketing, yes, there will still always be a place to to create awareness based content.

    But if search and social continue to change as dramatically as they do, and incorporate much more generative AI capabilities that might free us up, to be able to really focus in on building those relationships with our loyal customers, building our communities, for our loyal customers, and making them as happy as possible so that when behind closed doors in Slack, and and discord and telegram and all these places that that machines can’t read.

    Our customers are talking about us in a positive light, our customers are recommending us to others in the private discussions and that group chat or that group text, that that people have.

    That’s the future of content marketing, that if we invest our scarce resources wisely, will probably provide the biggest bang for the buck.

    Think about it.

    How often have you heard the correct trope that it costs x times more money to acquire a new customer then does to retain an existing one that isn’t just for customer service? That is for all marketing.

    If you took 80% of your content marketing budget that you’re using for acquisition and put it into attention, what kind of impact would that have on your business? What if you could cut your churn rate by 50%? Just with the power of great content marketing? give that some thought.

    That’s a it’s a great question about the future of content marketing and the answer, I feel is in in making our existing customers happier.

    Thanks for the question.

    We’ll talk to you next time.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: B2B or B2C Benefits More From AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: B2B or B2C Benefits More From AI?

    Unlock the benefits of AI for your business with this expert analysis. Discover which industry, B2B or B2C, will see more advantages from AI, and why. With insights into cost-effectiveness, scale, and expectations, find out how your business can leverage AI for greater efficiency and success. Watch now to learn more. Hit that subscribe button for more expert advice.

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    In today’s episode, Mary asks, which industry, B2B or B2C will benefit more from artificial intelligence? And that’s a tough question to answer.

    But my inclination is that B2B will enjoy more of the benefits of AI with fewer of the costs.

    And here’s why.

    When you’re talking B2C, we’re talking business to consumer, we’re talking about many times scale, the ability for a chatbot to be able to run on your website and address millions of people handle customer service issues and things like that.

    Personalization, doing RFM analysis doing predictive forecasting for customers.

    All of that is incredible value that AI can unlock for a B2C company.

    But one of the challenges that comes with that is scale.

    If you’ve got millions of customers, you have a compute problem, in the sense that it costs a lot of money to deploy some of these engines.

    To add scale.

    If you’re using a an API based service like OpenAI, for example.

    Every time you hit that API, you’re costing money.

    And if you’re sending out a million messages, or a million tweets or things like that, bill gets pretty big pretty fast.

    To the point where for the largest enterprise B2C companies, companies like Target or WalMart, for example, it’s going to be more cost effective for them to build their own in the long run.

    Because of just the sheer scale this your amount of scale they have.

    B2B companies typically don’t have that problem.

    B2B companies have audiences in the 1000s, rather than the millions have addressable audiences in the 1000s, rather than the millions and have.

    They have the same needs for customization personalization forecasting generation.

    But because the scale is so much smaller, they can afford to do use the nicer stuff.

    They can afford to build an integration with OpenAI, for example.

    And instead of having, you know, millions of people hitting their app, they might have 500 people hitting a chat GPT-2 Like app within the company.

    And so their bills will be much lower.

    But those those tasks that AI handles will make them far more efficient, and make them far better at their jobs.

    And so, as I look at the landscape, both B2B and B2C companies stand to benefit substantially from the use of AI, particularly the use of AI and marketing, AI and sales, etc.

    But B does B2B companies feel like this is this is subjective opinion, but B2B companies feel like they will be able to benefit more from the particular strengths of AI.

    Without the costs of scale, they will be able to use more computationally expensive technologies, because again, you don’t have to deliver massive volume.

    For example, inside of a CRM package, you might have something like a chatbot, like a chat GPT-3 in there to help construct dialogue, or to generate messages.

    In those situations, a B2B company might not have the same latency demands that a B2C company might example, you are on a B2C companies website and you’re working with a chatbot, you expect that chat bot to be fast and responsive to get back to you to answer as though it were a real person.

    Contrast that with something like in B2B, where you’re in your marketing automation software, and you tell it to generate a bunch of tweets.

    You’re okay, if it says like, yeah, come back in five minutes, right? And they’ll be done.

    Like, okay, cool.

    I’m gonna go on to another thing on my to do list and let it do its thing.

    That difference in expectations means that B2B companies will be able to leverage the more computationally expensive models because people are okay with that experience.

    They’re used to it experience where yeah, there is some batch processing, there’s some delay, etc.

    Whereas consumers and B2C are a lot less tolerant of that kind of thing.

    So again, both types of industry will benefit from AI, but I definitely see B2B as being able to use it more and to get greater benefit from it.

    It’s a really interesting question.

    It’s a really interesting question.

    So thank you for that.

    Take care.

    I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Future of SEO and ChatGPT Impact?

    You Ask, I Answer: Future of SEO and ChatGPT Impact?

    Chris (not me) asks, “What’s the future of SEO? Do people still hire SEO companies?” In this video, we explore this question and talk about the limited runway unbranded SEO has in the face of large language models like the GPT family (including ChatGPT) and what we marketers should be doing to prepare now for a future that’s probably only a couple years away.

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    In today’s episode, Chris asks, “Do people still hire SEO firms?” The answer is yes, they do. There is still a need for companies to help other companies learn how search marketing works. However, there is a big question mark on the future of traditional SEO right now, and it has to do with large language models such as GPT-3 and others like GPT-2, Neo X 20.B, etc. Some are run by OpenAI, others by Hugging Face, and so on.

    The problem with these models is that they give responses that seem plausible, even if they are not always factually correct. There are companies working on improving the accuracy of these models, but they still don’t give out links or any call to action, like a regular search engine would.

    This is a problem for Google because it could imperil their core business of serving ads along search listings, which is the source of a significant amount of their revenue. This is also a problem for marketers because the text we publish on our blogs, for example, feeds these large language models but we don’t get credit for it, and so these models could take away a significant amount of our unbranded search traffic.

    In the future, searching for information could look like asking a chatbot, and the answers will come from these language models. With just one link displayed, the importance of being number one in search results will become even more crucial.

    So, as marketers, what can we do about this? We need to build our “insurance policy.” This policy comes in two parts:

    Build your brand – You must be known by name so that even the most sophisticated language model points people to your website. Build brand recognition to ensure that you benefit from these models.
    Build community – Get people into a place where you can reliably reach them, such as an email marketing list, text messaging list, Slack, Discord, Telegram, etc.
    These steps will help ensure that your marketing efforts are not wasted in the future of search.

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    In today’s episode, Chris asks, Do people still hire SEO firms? Yes, they do.

    Absolutely they do.

    There is still a need for companies to help other companies learn how search marketing works.

    However, and this is the big however, there is a huge question mark on the future of traditional SEO right now.

    And that huge question mark has to do with large language models.

    The one that you’re most familiar with, of course, as whatever, we can’t stop talking about Jack GPT, which is based on the GPT-3 language model.

    But it’s not the only one.

    There’s many of these out this cheap T J six b GPT-2, Neo x 20.

    B, and so on and so forth.

    Some are run by OpenAI, some are not and some are by you look through AI Hugging Face, there’s there’s tons of these models that are available.

    Here’s why this is a big deal.

    Right now.

    When you use chat, GBT, or any large language model, you ask it a question.

    And it gives a response.

    It gives sometimes a factually incorrect response.

    But it gives a response that seems plausible.

    And there are plenty of companies that are working on factually correct versions of these tools.

    When you ask it, for example, things like what is a transformer? Or how many cups are in a gallon? Or things like that in a chat format and a conversational format? They’re not sending you anywhere, right? When was the last time you got a link to click on out of chat? GPT never.

    You’d never have gotten more.

    You’ve had maybe Google for something afterwards.

    But you’ve got no link from it.

    No, you might also be interested in or check this out.

    And so as these models take off, and as the style of interacting with knowledge continues to grow, that imperils SEO.

    That’s one of the reasons why Google is having a freakout about chat GPT-2 Because it imperils the very core of their business.

    Right.

    It imperils their ability to serve ads along search listings, which is at the heart of a good chunk of their business.

    Now, they do have other things display advertising, they have YouTube ads, Gmail, ads, etc.

    But the big money is in those search ads.

    And if search changes dramatically, they will have a hard time making up that revenue.

    Here’s why it matters for us as marketers.

    When you look at how a large language model is constructed, particularly for unbranded search shims, your informational searches.

    It’s not from any one source.

    So our text that we publish on our blogs and stuff feeds these large language models, but we don’t get credit for it.

    And as a result, for those large language models, they could take away a substantial amount of our unbranded search traffic, they will still be branded search traffic, right, someone who’s looking for Trust Insights will still search for Trust Insights.

    And a large language model is not to say, oh, you should go to trust insights.ai.

    A regular search engine will do that.

    But if a sort of a if someone is searching for reasons why AI models are good, or reasons why AI models are bad, those queries aren’t going to go nowhere.

    They are going to go nowhere, except in the chat bot itself.

    And so all of our informational content that we use to drive unbranded search volume is going to go away right now completely, but it will probably go away substantially.

    What will it look like? Kinda like what chat looks like? Now, think about when you ask your Google Home or home pod or Alexa device, or something where it will say, here’s the answer your question, Would you like more information? We’ll send you a link to in your thing, or you there’s a link displayed on your Alexa device or whatever? How many links are there? One, just one, which means if you’re not number one, you’re nothing right? If you are not number one, you are nothing.

    So SEO is going to dramatically change you will dramatically change as long as chat based interfaces to large language models continue to be popular.

    So what do we do about this as marketers? now was the time to building your insurance policy and your insurance policy comes in two parts Part Number one, your brand you must must build brand you must build brand.

    You must be known by name so that even asking the most sophisticated language while still points people towards your website, right? Hey, go check out trust insights.ai Go check out Chris Tres Pandoc calm to go check out marketing over coffee.com that is, number one, you got to build a brand and if you’re not building brand, you are in danger.

    Should you still be building unbranded content marketing, you know, informational marketing? Yes, but recognize that you at this point you’re just feeding large language models that will not benefit you build your brand instead.

    Number two, you must build community, right you must have an acquisition method that gets people to you in what is called reliable reach.

    That means your email marketing list your text messaging list, your slack, your discord, your telegram, whatever means you can to get people into a place where you can reliably reach them is going to be important because you can’t do it on public social media.

    You just can’t write algorithms like a Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn, and Instagram and Tiktok.

    You cannot reliably reach people when you need to reach them.

    They’re they’re simply not accessible.

    You will get some of them when you publish your latest Tiktok or whatever.

    But it could be hours, days, maybe even weeks before enough of your audience sees a public social media posts no matter with private social media, you get the timeliness.

    So that’s important.

    With an email list, as long as your email service were working correctly, you will you will get that and you have to be prepared for your organic search to dramatically drop.

    So your assignment is this, go into Google Search causal.

    And look at your performance for branded and unbranded queries.

    You’ll have to do some, some regex selection in there.

    You want ideally 50% of your traffic to be branded search at least 50% to be branded search and this flies in the face of everything we’ve been saying about SEO for 1015 years, you know you need to unbranded search to bring in new audience.

    Once large language models takeover search, you are just feeding the models and you are getting nothing from it.

    You will be just feeding models that will run ads and take your money and you will have nothing to show for it.

    So I would focus on building brand.

    Now some of it Sure, unbranded content and explanatory content and things is important.

    But I would start peppering your unbranded content with your stuff.

    Write things that are uniquely you things that people can get nowhere else.

    It will read a little bit awkwardly, but can you imagine, if a if a large language model decides to vacuum up your content, it will strongly associate your names with that content.

    That’s how those models work.

    Otherwise, do what you can to build brand.

    So advertise for sure, show ads to relevant people create shareable, share worthy content, that stuff that people want to hand up, it has your name and your logo on it.

    Studies Research unique stuff.

    date it, I’m gonna say something that again is gonna piss off a lot of people gate your content.

    Why? Because ungated on ungated content, you’re just feeding large language models, you’re feeding GPT-3.

    And it’s undertake your content and your knowledge.

    And you will get nothing from them when you slap it behind the gate.

    Even if it’s just a gate like he’ll punch the monkey in the face, right? No, you’ll take it off to take people’s personal information.

    But just put up something that blocks these crawlers from getting your information from taking it and using it for themselves.

    Put some obstacle in their way, so that your knowledge is can benefit you first, right? But that’s how you’re going to prove your brand value and then build those communities.

    Build those communities, you’ve got to build private communities that you can rely on to reach otherwise, the large language models will invariably benefit those who can crank up the most content, those who can crank up the most content and sway those models a little bit will inevitably be those companies have the deepest pockets.

    You and me.

    I’m assuming you’re not a billionaire, maybe you are if you are, Hi, I’m not a billionaire.

    But you and me we are not the beneficiaries of most AI models, right? They are created on large volume and large volume correlate strongly with resources with money, etc.

    So that’s my long take on SEO and where things are going to take it for what it’s worth.

    If you disagree, cool.

    This is how I’m looking at it from my own marketing because I know how these models work.

    And I know that we are not the ones who are going to be benefiting unless we are the ones who are running the model.

    If you are an AI company and you can get market share, you will have a disproportionately larger, larger amount of market share as long as your company continues to do well, because people will rely more on more of those models.

    And pretty soon, there will be room for competitors who don’t have AI on their side, they’ll have models of their own that they’re deploying, you know, with customers and in customer interactions.

    It’s going to be a very interesting few years in marketing, but the writing is already on the wall that SEO is in a lot of trouble.

    And it’s not going to get better.

    So, hope that answers your question.

    Probably a little more than you were expecting.

    And I’ll talk to you soon take care.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: ChatGPT Responses and Language?

    You Ask, I Answer: ChatGPT Responses and Language?

    In this episode, I explore the impact of language on large language models like GPT-3. I explain the concept of ‘a word is known by the company it keeps’ and how using specific prompts can lead to the desired output. I encourage viewers to test different tones and language in their prompts and see the impact on the model’s responses. Join me as I delve into the power of language in this informative video. Hit the subscribe button now!

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    In this episode Carol asks for chat GPT-3.

    If I am particularly friendly, effusive or polite in my prompts to it, will it respond similarly? Remember this expression.

    This expression was coined by oh gosh, I’m trying to remember the mathematician was from a long time ago, but the quote is, a word is known by the company it keeps word is known by company by the company it keeps on.

    What that means is that these large language models are essentially, really, really big matrices of word associations.

    The more that the words are available to make decisions, which is why your prompts need to be as detailed as possible, the more the model is going to align with those words.

    So if you’re using effusive or florid language in your prompts, guess what? That’s going to have word associations, and it will return data, Dana, that would be conversationally appropriate to those word associations.

    What I would encourage people to do is within the boundaries of professionalism and politeness and stuff like that.

    Do do test these things out, right, test out different kinds of language, a brusque tone, overly polite tone, very formal tone, and see how the model changes in its outputs.

    Because the word associations that are being put into it, so it is, knowing that those word associations, politeness, overly verbose language, you’re gonna get that back and turn just as you would talking to a real human being.

    Right? If somebody comes up to you says, Good afternoon, Madam.

    That automatically sets a context for the kind of person you’re dealing with, as opposed to somebody you know, going with the same kind of situation code to go yo, what’s up? Again, just that little bit of language tells you what kind of conversational context you’re about to have.

    The word is known by the company it keeps, right? So that’s the answer to that question.

    And he will respond in ways that are expected for those words.

    And the critical thing to remember is that with, with your prompts, if you’re not getting the expected outputs, it’s because there are not enough the words that are associated with the input to get what you want.

    A lot of people will write like a paragraph long prompt, my prompts when I work with these tools are sometimes like a page or two of text, right? Because I want very specific words, very specific instructions.

    There’s a concept called Waiting where you use the same direction or freeze several times in the prompt, so that that is given more weight.

    For example, if I’m telling you to write a bunch of tweets, I will say, several times in the instructions in the prompt, always use the full URL in the tweet, use the full URL of the tweet, write the full URL in between.

    And that in turn, gives weight to the added weight to those specific terms.

    If we understand large language models on their architecture, we know better how to work with them and how to get the results out of that that we want.

    And you don’t necessarily have to use the particularly friendly or effusive language with it, you can actually specify, respond in a casual tone responding to professional tone responding to cold tone, respond in a hyperbolic tone.

    I did a thing recently where I took the biography that my my partner Katie robear, has on the Trust Insights website.

    And I said, rewrite this as though Tony Robbins, we’re announcing you at a big event with a lot of Hyperbole and a lot of excitement and exciting language.

    And it did it did a very credible job of it.

    Maybe one day I’ll do a read through of its response and my best imitation to just show what that would look like but you can just tell it tone as well.

    So to be explicit, you should use this kind of tone in your responses.

    So that’s the answer to the question.

    The words you put in lead to the words you get out.

    Thanks for asking.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What Does ChatGPT Learn?

    You Ask, I Answer: What Does ChatGPT Learn?

    I explain the concept of reinforcement learning and how it is used to optimize Chat GPT for dialogue. OpenAI, the company behind Chat GPT, logs all interactions with the model and uses them to improve the system. Discover the research value that our interactions with Chat GPT provide and how they help improve the model in this informative video.

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    In today’s episode, Carol asks, Does chat GPT learn from my prompts and the text I feed it? And does it feed that knowledge to others? What research value do they get from our interactions? So with any AI service, it’s always a good idea.

    Always a good idea to read the Terms of Service to read the frequently asked questions and any technical documentation is provided.

    OpenAI, which is the company that produces chat GPT-3 has a good amount of actual documentation and disclosures on its website about what the model is and how it works.

    So from bullet point two in their frequently asked questions, chat GPT is fine tuned from GPT-3 point five, a language model trained to produce text chat GPT was optimized for dialogue by using reinforcement learning with human feedback, a method that uses human demonstrations to guide the model towards the desired behavior.

    So what this means when you’re talking about reinforcement learning, Reinforcement learning is when you train a machine learning model to perform a task of some kind, Shad, score things, guests things, categorize things.

    And then you essentially take the uses of that model.

    And you know, thumbs up, thumbs down, whether it did his job, and you feed that back to the original dataset.

    And then you retrain the model, you basically haven’t rebuild itself.

    And you keep doing this over and over and over again.

    So that over time, as long as the responses are intelligible, and well curated, the model gets smarter, the model gets better at doing what it’s supposed to do.

    Now, chat GPT does absolutely log everything you type into it.

    In fact, when when you read Terms of Service term number six, will use my conversations for training.

    Yes, your conversations may be reviewed by our AI trainers to improve our systems.

    So everything you type into this system is being logged.

    In fact, there is a specific note in here in the terms of service like hey, don’t put confidential information in here because this is not this is not the place where that it is being logged.

    So is it learning from your prompts and the text feed it? Yes, it is the most overt way you can give feedback to OpenAI is that thumbs up thumbs down when you are using the service, you’ll see a little thumbs up thumbs down icons right next to its responses and you’re reading each response.

    Yes, is a good response notice was not a good response helps the model learn how to provide that at training feedback for them to retrain their software.

    That said, you can tell a lot about some of the responses by how much refinement there is, right.

    So even if you don’t use the thumbs up, thumbs down, if you say, write me a poem in the style of Edgar Allan Poe, but about the 2020 presidential election.

    And it does its thing, and then you keep asking for refinement after refinement after refinement.

    That’s a pretty good indicator that the model is not doing what you intended to do, because he didn’t nail it on the first shot or the second shot or the third shot and so forth.

    So even in cases where you’re not using that built in ratings feature, there are plenty of behavioral signals that would indicate Yeah, this this thing is not going right.

    I don’t know.

    So this is purely speculation on my part, but it would completely not surprise me if the, the outputs and then our inputs were basically being added to the training data set.

    Add in hold, right.

    So when you write a prompt and submit that, that goes into training data, right for the next iteration of the model.

    So I would absolutely assume that that knowledge, any knowledge that we’re creating with the software is being incorporated into that reinforcement learning system, the human feedback of some folks in the AI community, we’ll call it active learning where it’s it’s retraining itself on a regular and frequent basis.

    OpenAI seems to release a new version about every month or so.

    So my guess is they they collect data for a certain period of time, they then retrain the model, and they roll out the newly retrained model.

    And obviously, if it goes sideways, for some reason, they can just roll back to the previous fall.

    But that’s, that’s what I’m pretty sure is going on underneath the hood.

    So what research value are they getting from our interactions? They’re rebuilding the model, right? They’re improving the model.

    OpenAI makes these really large language models, the GPT-2 series of models, a generative, pre trained transformers, so they had GPT-2, then three now 3.5, later this year, they’re going to be releasing four, which will, despite all the hype line is just going to be more of the same right? It’ll be better what it does, because it’ll have more data.

    And critically it this is the part that I don’t think people understand about these, these models, critically.

    Our interactions with it To provide richer training data that they can get just by scraping the internet itself, because if you scrape like a Reddit forum thread, yeah, you have some context.

    But you don’t have that, that thumbs up thumbs down that behavioral data, as if, as opposed to when we work with a model directly and say, write me a poem about slicing cheese, but in the style of, I don’t know, somehow what I can tell by betraying my lack of studies in English class.

    In the bath, these are very clear payers of information, a prompt response prompt response.

    And that’s better quality training data for someone who’s building a large language model.

    So that’s what’s happening with the data we’re feeding into this.

    It is, we know for sure from what’s disclosed, it is being used to retrain the model, it would not be surprised, because it would not surprise me in the slightest if it was being used to train the next iteration of the big model GPT for right with all the conversations because this thing has taken off like like wildfire online.

    And so 1000s If not millions of people are freely giving it a lot of information.

    And that you as a researcher, as someone trying to build software, as someone tried to acquire high quality data, you couldn’t ask for a better, better way to do that, than to have a bunch of people eagerly running in to provide you with more training data.

    So that’s what’s happening, but expect no privacy.

    It’s in the terms of service, expect no privacy.

    If you’re putting in like, you know, you have this rare medical condition.

    I don’t know that I would put that into a system like this that is going to be reviewed in some part by the AI team that builds this.

    So good question.

    Thanks for asking.

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    You Ask, I Answer: ChatGPT Feedback?

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    In this episode Carol asks, regarding chat GPT if I provide positive feedback after an answer, will the influence chat GPT-2 Next replies? Yes, but it depends on the kind of positive feedback we’re talking about.

    There’s two essential feedback mechanisms to chat GPT.

    One is you’ll notice next to each prompt, there’s a thumbs up thumbs down.

    That is the training data that we are asked to provide as users of the system as beta users to say this response was good or this response was not good.

    Doing that provides training data to OpenAI to essentially take those prompt response pairs, the ones that got thumbs up, when it basically was back into the training model and says, do more of this stuff.

    And it wasn’t got thumbs down, it goes into the back of the training while saying do less of this stuff.

    And so that feedback, it’s called reinforcement learning, helps AIS get smarter, essentially, get get more clever at what they do, by avoiding things that are that are not appropriate.

    That’s one of the reasons why fine tuning, which is a process where you retrain the AI a little bit or give some things additional weights is so important.

    That’s one aspect.

    The second aspect is if you’re talking about sort of just text interaction, that doesn’t amend the training dataset, not overtly, but what it does do is that it provides guidance for the model within that session to do less or more of something.

    And that data may may be used for reinforcement learning as well, if it’s clear enough that the feedback is about that prompt.

    But the the mechanism that for sure, we know impacts the reinforcement learning is the thumbs up thumbs down thing.

    When you’re working within a session within OpenAI within a specific conversation, providing positive feedback or corrective feedback will help more than anything, refine the results that you get, right.

    If you say to him, hey, good answer.

    It may say thank you and may do all these things and then say, Do you want to continue to want to do something more that that’s going to be sort of in session textual feedback, but it doesn’t change the model as much as the thumbs up thumbs down ratings.

    So if you want to influence chat GPT to overall provide a better experience use that the built in rating system if you want to see how it interacts with you within that session and the feedback that it gives you and the way the prompts and the outputs change.

    You can use in conversation feedback as well, but there’s been no indication that OpenAI overtly uses that training data as part of its reinforcement learning mechanisms.

    They may they may, we just don’t know that’s not disclosed in the documentation.

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    What’s On My Mind: AI Creation Vs. Refinement

    Let’s take a minute to talk about originality, AI, and content marketing. A lot of folks, myself included, have had a lot to say about generative AI, about how AI is ushering in a new age of generated content. Machines that write almost as well as we do on average, machines that can crank out incredible artwork.

    Yet, that’s not what these machines excel at.

    When it comes to the use of artificial intelligence, in particular, large language models like GPT-3 and the ChatGPT interface, what these models are good at is transforming inputs. Large language models, in general, are nothing more than massive statistical probability matrices. There was a great quote from the “This Week in Machine Learning and AI” podcast that goes something like “a word is told by the company it keeps.”

    This means that these tools and models understand language only to the extent of the statistical distributions of the words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that they appear in. That’s why they can replicate grammar very well because grammar is nothing more than statistical distributions of words. They’re autocomplete on steroids.

    For example, what’s the next word in these sentences?

    “For all you do, this Bud’s for _____”

    “That’s not a knife, this is a _____”

    “God save the _____”

    We know what these various sentences are because in their respective cultures, they’re so frequently used that we are accustomed to the word distributions, though the last one is now changing once again because the people it’s about have changed.

    What this means is that from a generation capacity, these tools can generate text very capably, but that generation is going to be mathematically an average of the text that most commonly surrounds those keywords. That’s why your prompts to generate new stuff have to be so incredibly detailed, so that the tools can understand the increased sense of probabilities for the words you’re asking them to generate.

    Telling a large language model to write a blog post about social media marketing is going to generate extremely bland, average content. Telling it to generate social media content about the engagement rates on TikTok with regard to time of day and gender is going to give you more specific content because the large language model itself can understand based on the additional words you’ve provided, more of the context. It is drawing from additional statistical probabilities from those words – a word is known by the company it keeps.

    However, what these tools produce is still a statistical average of what they’ve been trained on. They’re not going to produce anything original because they can’t by definition. Certainly, they’ll produce original orderings of words to some degree, but they can’t produce new concepts that aren’t in the original model. That’s why it’s such a big deal when new versions of models – bigger models especially – get released, because the models have more original ideas in them to work with.

    So some marketers are going to create an avalanche of average, a swamp of sameness as they dramatically accelerate the quantity of their content production but not the quality. Their use of AI will be to scale quantity in the hopes that wins them the game, or at the very least frees up their time to do other things. And for some companies, that will be a win, and that’s okay. If your company blog is atrocious now, a completely machine-generated blog of mediocrity will be a GIANT upgrade for your company.

    But what if you don’t want average? What if you aspire to more than mediocrity? What role do these tools play? Here’s the part everyone is overlooking: these tools are better at refining than creating, and that’s the secret we need to understand to unlock their power.

    Because these models – their technical name really is transformers – are adept taking in inputs and transforming them into outputs, they are actually BETTER at refining text than they are creating it. About a third of this article, the first third, was written with the help of ChatGPT. But it’s not what you think – it took my words and just cleaned them up. Here’s how – I did a voice recording while I was waiting to pick my kid up from art class, and fed it to Otter:

    Otter transcript

    then took that transcript and fed it to ChatGPT:

    ChatGPT input

    Is what you’re reading my words? Yes. It’s my words, but changed from one medium to another and cleaned up. My words were transformed by the GPT model – which stands for generative pretrained transformer – into text that’s almost exactly what I said, minus some things that weren’t helpful.

    This is what these tools excel at – taking data and transforming it, rearranging it, making it more useful. This preserves our originality, our ideas, our language, while improving the quality – and that’s what they’re best at. Because they’re not relying on a gigantic average of all the content they’ve ingested, because they’re using our own words and just cleaning up or rephrasing, they perform great AND keep the spirit of what we’re trying to say. There was a great story on Buzzfeed about an AI app made for a contractor who is dyslexic, helping refine the inputs into better quality outputs.

    We can even use multiple, different voices to create something useful from original inputs. My martial arts teacher, Mark Davis, has said it’s challenging sometimes to create social media copy that resonates with audiences. What better way to create ads than to use the voice of the customer itself? I wrote this prompt for GPT-3, using real customer reviews from the school’s Google Business profile:

    Martial arts school GPT-3 prompt

    What will happen? The large language model will digest not just my directions, but also the language of what customers had to say in their reviews of the school, then generate social media copy based on that. It’ll preserve the main ideas, the original ideas it was provided rather than resort to dipping into the pool of average commentary about martial arts schools.

    And what was the outcome?

    GPT synthesized reviews

    Those are some good suggestions to get started with social media content. They’re clear, they’re specific, and they’re appealing.

    This is the power of transformer-based large language models. You can have them create something average from scratch, or provide them with the raw materials and they’ll create refined products – but keep your originality and spark in the final product.

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    You Ask, I Answer: ChatGPT Predictions?

    In today’s episode, Cathy asks, “What predictions do you have for the future of ChatGPT for the rest of this year?” I share about large language models in general, some useful applications, Microsoft’s interest, and more.

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    trying something different today using Adobe podcast with along with the wireless lavalier.

    Mic, and the phone.

    So let’s see how this turns out.

    Because if this works really well, then it means that for folks who are content creators, you can do more than one thing at a time as long as you’re safe and aware of your surroundings.

    So in today’s episode, Kathy asks, what do we think the implications of chat GPT are upon the rest of the year? That’s an impossible question to answer.

    Here’s the thing.

    I would like for us to stop referring to that specific product, when we’re talking about the applications of large language models, right.

    GPT is a great tool, right? It’s built on the GPT-3 model, which is by OpenAI, that is not the only large language model out there.

    In fact, there are many, many large language models, each town has their own applications, their own parameters, the Eleuther.ai, AI made a whole bunch on their desk at the pile.

    So large language models, we talk about something like chat GPT-2 is like talking about Microsoft Word like what are the implications of Microsoft Word, as opposed to what’s the implication of word processing? And how, how is word processing going to change content creation? It sounds different, right? It sounds a little more broad.

    We saw on the news, this past week that Microsoft is looking at integrating the GPT-3 model, the large language model into its search engine, and especially into some of its products like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, ooh, this is a really good idea.

    This is a really good idea.

    Because when you’re being creative, even nominally creative inside the office and stuff, you’re I mean, we’ve all had that experience, when you’re sitting down to write something and you’re like, I don’t know what to write, I don’t know what to put on this slide, and so on, and so forth.

    And that’s where a large language model is a really good idea to have available to say, ah, gosh, what should I name this presentation? Well, hey, let’s take a look at all the notes and distill down some, some title suggestions, right? To name this presentation? Or I’ve written this chapter of this book in my word processor, and like, what should what should the chapter summary be right? For those people who write cereal, pieces of fiction, choosing your your summary, choosing your, your sort of snippet for promotion really difficult.

    If you’re creating content, and you want promotional material from it, this is something that we’re seeing a lot of tools starting to explore, where you give it your content, and you say, Make me some social posts, right, make me something that I can use to put on Instagram, or Facebook or, or LinkedIn or whatever, and it will generate those things.

    And those are really good applications of large language models, as adjuncts to the creative process.

    And I think that’s an important part.

    It’s an adjunct to the creative process.

    That means it’s not doing the work for you to follow.

    And it kind of is, it’s not building the main corpus of the work.

    It’s building all the promotional stuff around it.

    And let’s face it, a lot of people who are really good creators, right? Authors, filmmakers, musicians.

    Many of them don’t like making promotional material, right? Many of them don’t like pimping their stuff.

    They feel awkward about, well, what does the machine just does it for you? Right? So you’re, instead of trying to struggle to make some promotional content, the machine doesn’t worry, hey, here’s the tweets you need to promote this thing.

    That’s a great use of this technology.

    That’s a great use of large language models.

    So that’s what I foresee as being the the useful use cases.

    There’s a lot of novelty uses for these large language models.

    One of my personal favorites is meeting notes, summarization, I will feed a long transcript of 2025 minute call and say, give me meeting notes and action items out of this.

    Now I have a whole prompt written down to make sure it behaves the way I want it to behave.

    But in doing so, it dramatically shortens the amount of time I need to get action items out of a call, particularly It was a long Cornett remember everything? It’s a great way to summarize.

    So are there gonna be other applications? Of course, we see all sorts of things like actual conversations.

    I saw a piece of news this morning on how someone was using it to more than say that was using it to test for mental health stuff.

    Experiments in the controlled laboratory setting by qualified professionals to see if these bots could act as therapy adjuncts right now up, not replacing therapists because the liability on that alone would be impossible, but as a supplement to regular therapy, so that’s where I think we’re going with these things.

    I it’s going to be interesting to see how it turns out.

    What are the big questions right now that was announced in the OpenAI discord was hey, we’re thinking about commercializing this, what should the pricing be? What should the model be? And a lot of people pitch their their ideas and but the era of this stuff being free, is coming to a close very fast.

    So if there’s a lot of things you want to get done with it now.

    Get it in, if you don’t have the budget, it’s probably not going to expense for it.

    OpenAI is regular pricing is surprisingly affordable.

    It’s like two cents, I think, per 1000 tokens.

    So if you put in 1000 word essay, you know, cost you two pennies to process that thing to generate that much token data.

    And we see with chat GPT in particular, that it doesn’t seem to take into account the input length nearly as much as the regular GPT-3 model does.

    So you can put in really long crops man should to get results out of the system.

    So how that changes once they start charging for it? We don’t know.

    But it will be will not be free forever.

    It will not be freezing for a while.

    It’s that that research favor that I believe is coming to a close.

    I don’t think OpenAI expected it to be the huge hit that it was.

    But now this BERT folks, they’ve got a bunch of doctorate degrees and things.

    They know that they’ve got to hit on their hands and they need to capitalize on it sooner rather than later.

    Anyway, thanks for the question.

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