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In today’s episode, we’re tackling the intriguing world of generative AI and language learning models (LLMs), focusing on their unique challenges and potential. You’ll learn about the differences between AI and traditional software, the importance of fine-tuning in AI development, and how this impacts its usefulness and reliability. Discover the concept of ensemble models and how they enhance AI performance and accuracy. Tune in for an insightful exploration into the evolving landscape of AI technology and how it’s shaping our future.

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In today’s episode Oz asks, “With this AI stuff I sense a shift in thinking.

The mantra always seems to be it’s not so good now but it’s quickly improving.

This is different from new software coming out and it mostly kind of works and I can decide if it’s something useful for my needs.

If not, I move on.

No harm done.

But AI seems to be this whole ‘imagine the future’ potential.

How long does a person have to dance around with something janky before it either proves to be useful or not?” Oz went on to say, here let me pull up the comment, “A variation of this came with my need to get 10 four-letter palindromes that got 8 good ones and 2 or 5 letters long.

Two things happened.

Some folks said if I was paying for GPT-4 the result would have been perfect.

Someone else said it’s on me to decide if 80% was good enough.

These LLMs are weird, different from tools that are immediately useful or not.

Other tools don’t ask users to engage all this murkiness at 80% where the understanding of it getting better might eventually get to 100%.

So what’s going on? Okay, here’s the thing.

Language models are a totally different kind of beast.

They’re a totally different kind of software.

And there are pieces of software that at their fundamental levels, they are never correct.

So there’s three levels, there’s three tiers of language models.

There are foundation models, which are the raw goods that have been assembled.

And the way this works is, if you take the enormous amounts of text on the internet and do statistical analysis of all of them, what you will end up with is a model that could statistically predict correctly what’s nearby in a word.

Right? For example, OZ is an Excel, Microsoft Excel MVP.

If you look at all of the words near Excel, just the word Excel, you would of course get Microsoft, but you’ll also get words like surpass, exceed, transcend, any of the word spreadsheet is in there too.

When we train, when we build these foundation models, when big companies like OpenAI and Microsoft build these, all of that is in there.

And so if you were to prompt it, a foundation model and ask it about Microsoft Excel, you might get some gibberish.

Because it’s pulling.

It’s pulling up the words that are statistically correct for the query, even when those words are factually wrong.

When we do what’s called fine tuning, what we’re actually doing is we’re actually breaking these models.

We are saying, hey, what you answered here was statistically correct, but it’s wrong.

So we’re going to say this is the correct answer, but it’s not statistically as relevant.

If you were to, if you were to, you know, condition a model fine to it, you would say, always say Microsoft Excel.

And then it would prevent it from ever saying something like, you know, Microsoft exceed or exceed spreadsheet or something like that, where there’s a word relationship that would be statistically relevant, but not factually correct.

Now to the example that Oz gave, yes, GPT-4 is a better model than GPT 3.5, which is the free version of chat GPT.

Why? Two things.

One’s got a lot more data in it.

It has a much larger latent space or memory.

So it has seen Microsoft Excel, or in this case, its palindromes, more than say a smaller model will.

But two, it’s more broken, right? In the sense that it has been fine-tuned and tuned with reinforcement learning with human feedback so that it gives more correct answers, what we call factually correct answers, which are inherently, at least with the way these models work, statistically wrong, right? So.

I don’t want to say, I want to see more of this.

It will give you probabilistically what it’s been trained to do to not be the statistically correct answer.

If you go to an image model, I was just working on this the other day, and say, I want you to make an image of two dogs and two cats and here are the breeds, it’s going to really struggle with that.

Why? Because while it may have seen a Newfoundland or a Chartreux or a short-haired black cat, it may not have seen them all in combination enough that it can replicate or have an understanding of what it is that it’s doing.

Language models, but really all generative AI is probability-based, it’s predictive-based, which means that it can never be 100% correct, never.

It can be 99.999% correct, but never 100% correct because the probability engine that is underneath all these things will always have the possibility of coming up with something realistically similar to what you wanted, but not factually correct.

And that’s the distinction with these things.

So will this always be the case? To some degree, the models themselves will always have that randomness in them, it’s called stochastic probability, that means they can go off the rails.

The way to counteract that with a lot of systems is to not just have one big model, instead you have an ensemble of them that have different tasks.

So you might have one model that generates, another model that fact-checks and says, “Hey, this doesn’t match up with my known data.” You might have a third model that’s looking for things like bias in its responses.

You might have a fourth model that manages the workload among these things.

There’s a whole architecture actually called “mixture of experts” which kind of performs this task to some degree.

And that GPT-4 is not one big model, but it is in fact an ensemble of different models.

No one from OpenAI has ever confirmed or denied that that is part of the architecture.

But it’s suspected of that because it’s very difficult to get the speed and performance that OpenAI delivers with GPT-4 from a model that big.

If you look at the open source models, they can’t behave in the same way with similar compute power.

So something’s going on behind the scenes.

That’s part of their secret sauce about why their software behaves so well.

To the end user, to you and me as users, it just works well.

It works pretty well.

Architecturally, it’s probably very different under the hood.

So that’s the answer.

That AI is evolving.

It will never be perfect.

It will never not have the element of randomness.

And the way to counteract that and reduce it as much as possible is through ensembling.

So really good question.

Thanks for asking.

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In today’s episode, we dive into the intricacies of using generative AI in tax law. You’ll learn about the integration of new regulations into AI models, and the dual approach of fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation needed for accuracy. Discover the challenges and techniques involved in making AI adapt to the latest tax laws for 2023. Tune in for a detailed exploration of the advanced use cases of generative AI in legal contexts and how to effectively update and train these models.

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Christopher Penn: Someone asked on YouTube about a specific use case of generative AI involving tax law, and whether they can just upload the latest regulations to make a large language model answer current tax law questions for tax year 2023.

The answer is sort of, here’s why.

There are two main ways to improve the performance of a large language model, fine tuning, and retrieval, augmented generation.

Now, yes, there’s a bunch of other tech is the big two fine tuning helps guide a model to change how it answers and retrieval, augmented generation increases the overall latent space.

Go back to a previous episode of the almost timely newsletter if you want to learn more about latent space itself.

In non technical terms, think of this like a library, right? Think of a large language model like a library, it’s a really big library.

If you had a library, there’s no indexing system books just everywhere, right? You would have to wander around that library.

Until you found the books you want to do very slow, very inefficient, horrendously inefficient.

Now, if you taught someone or you learned yourself where in that maze of books, the tax books are, you provided maps and signs and guides me there’s indexing system, there’d be a whole lot easier for someone to get to the tax books in the library and subsequent visits.

That’s fine tuning, right? Fine tuning is teaching a model how to get to specific kinds of answers return specific kinds of answers much more effectively and correctly.

Retrieval augmented generation adds more books to the library, right? If you want a book on 2023 tax law, and it’s not in the library yet, the library will give you the next best thing which is probably a book on 2022 tax law.

If you’re trying to deal with new regulations from 2023, that is not super helpful, right? Because it’s old, it’s old information, retrieval, augmented generation allows you to say, Hey, model, here’s the 2023 tax law, right? Add it to the library.

And now the model has that information to draw on.

But here’s the thing about this.

The YouTube comment because it’s a good comment.

It’s a good question.

For this specific question of can you just add tax law to T to have it answer questions about current tax law? The answer is probably not you need to do both fine tuning and retrieval augmented generation.

Yes, you absolutely need to upload the new tax law.

That information has to be in the latent space, the model has to have knowledge of it.

But you may have specific questions about the new tax law that have not been seen before.

Maybe there’s a new regulation, a new law that was passed, that isn’t in previous models that wouldn’t be previously known, you would have to train the model to fine tune the model to handle those new tax law questions, right? And if it was a change to law, you would have to fine tune the model to not only know the new law, but then when when it encountered probabilities in index about the old version of law, to know that that’s not valid anymore.

It’s not just as simple as add more documents, add more documents doesn’t help here.

But you need to do both.

This is where you get to advanced use cases for generative AI because it’s not just as simple as add more documents.

Certainly adding the 2023 documents is helpful, and it’s better than doing nothing.

But it’s probably not going to solve the problem.

It’s probably not going to answer the questions in a correct way.

Because all the patterns that it knows, because that’s all these machines are, they’re just probability and pattern generators.

All the prob patterns it knows, are from previous versions.

So you need to not only change the knowledge, but you need to change how the machine knows where to get the knowledge and which knowledge to go get.

But it’s a really good question for understanding generative AI and what you need to do to make a language model do do what you want.

So thanks for the question.

Talk to you soon.

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What’s On My Mind: Copyright Must NEVER Apply to AI-Made Works

Today, a slight departure from our usual tactical fare to something a little big picture. Before we begin, I want to emphasize and disclaim that I am not a lawyer. I have zero legal training and no legal expertise beyond the ability to use a search engine intelligently. I cannot give legal advice, and you should hire a qualified attorney in your jurisdiction for legal advice specific to your situation.

Okay, with that out of the way, let’s talk about copyright, generative AI, and making sure artificial intelligence work product is never, ever eligible for copyright. We should unequivocally ensure machine-made content can never be protected under intellectual property laws, or else we’re going to destroy the entire creative economy.

That’s a big claim, isn’t it? Let’s unpack why.

Today, in most places in the world, the existing law is such that machine created works cannot hold copyright. If you create a blog post in ChatGPT, the work is automatically in the public domain since copyright applies only to works created by humans. Famous court cases like Naruto vs. Slater in the USA have established precedent that works created by non-humans cannot be copyrighted.

There are those folks who do advocate that machine-made works should be copyrightable. After all, we’re all using generative AI fairly frequently, to write blog posts and create images and ideate for meetings. It seems reasonable that if we write a really good prompt and a machine creates a work product from our hard work, from our prompt and efforts, that we should be able to claim and protect that work, right?

On the surface, this sounds like a reasonable position. In practice, it would be an absolute disaster that would pretty much wipe out most creative industries, for two reasons: economic and legal.

Let’s tackle the legal reason first. Let’s say I use generative AI like ChatGPT to generate a song, like this.

Pretty catchy, isn’t it? (You should watch the video version or listen to the audio version of this issue.) Today, this song is ineligible for copyright. I can put it up on Soundcloud, I can publish it to YouTube, I can do all sorts of things with it, but I can’t protect it. If you wanted to, you could use it in any production of yours and I would have no legal recourse because it’s public domain.

Now, suppose I was able to copyright this. What would happen if you tried to use it? I could send a lawyer your way and say that you have to cease and desist the use of my copyrighted work, or pay me a license and royalties to use the work. That’s how it works with human-led works today. Back in the early 1990s, Vanilla Ice sampled the bass line from Queen and David Bowie’s Under Pressure. Vanilla Ice later had to pay a licensing fee of four million dollars for the use of that short bass line, plus royalties and credit to the original work.

Whether or not you meant to, if you used part of my machine-generated song, you would owe me a licensing fee and possibly royalties because you would infringe on my copyright.

One of the most important things you can do when it comes to any technology, but especially anything AI, is to ask what can go wrong. What could go wrong here? How could someone take this technology and use it in ways that we didn’t intend?

Well, suppose I took my prompt and I wrote a bit of code, and started doing this:

Now, imagine that I do this a million times. A hundred million times. A billion times. There are only so many ways you can use the different notes, chord progressions, and patterns of music and still make music that’s worth listening to – and a machine can make them all.

And now, with a billion variations, I’ve pretty much covered every possible song. If you recall, Vanilla Ice had to fork over four million dollars for roughly ten musical notes. If my billion songs are now copyrighted, then every musician who composes a song from today forward has to check that their composition isn’t in my catalog of a billion variations – and if it is (which, mathematically, it probably will be), they have to pay me.

One person, one corporate entity, could take advantage of machine-generated copyright law to create a library of copyrighted content than then everyone else has to either pay to use, or risk a lawsuit. Whoever has the most compute power to build that library first wins, and then everyone else has to basically pay tribute or use generative AI along with classical AI to find variations that aren’t in the catalog.

That wipes out the music industry. That wipes out musical creativity, because suddenly there is no incentive to create and publish original music for commercial purposes, including making a living as a musician. You know you’ll just end up in a copyright lawsuit sooner or later with a company that had better technology than you.

This applies to visual arts. Suppose I use generative AI to render a photo, such as this synthetic photo of the hills of Sonoma, California at sunset.

Pretty nice, right? Now suppose a photographer publishes a substantially similar photo. Could I claim that their photo infringes on mine? It’s possible. It would certainly be costly to defend in court. What about a painting? If a machine can render several billion images, and each of those images is copyrighted, then similar images created afterwards by other humans could be challenged.

There is precedent for this sort of behavior – patent trolls. These are companies which buy up portfolios of patents and then make their money suing other companies to pay up. Imagine how lucrative it will be for them to start doing the same with copyrights.

This is the first, major reason why we, as a civilization, should not permit machines to hold copyrights. The second reason is economic. When a human creates a work and then licenses or sells it, what happens to that money? The money they receive is put back into the ecosystem in the form of purchases – that human creator spends it on food, rent, etc.

What happens when machines create? If their work is copyrighted, meaning it can be protected and sold, then companies have a much stronger incentive to use machines rather than people. The work would enjoy the same level of protection, which in turn means that the profit margins on the work will be much, much higher. An API call to ChatGPT today to produce the music above consumed 831 tokens. ChatGPT costs 3 cents per thousand tokens via its API; some models like Mixtral that can run locally on your computer cost only the electricity needed to run your computer.

I recently paid an independent musician $500 for a theme song. For that money, I could have gotten 100,000 songs out of ChatGPT. Even if 99,000 of them were stinkers, that would still leave me with massive ROI for the one thousand songs that did not suck. That musician went on to spend that money in their economy. If I had paid that same money to OpenAI, that would have gone to datacenter and GPU costs for the most part – and certainly, it would not be distributed as evenly in the local economy. Sam Altman might spend some of it to charge his EV, but the point is that the money spent on tech tends to hyperconcentrate money with a handful of companies rather than the broad economy.

If machine works remain non-copyrightable, there’s a strong disincentive for companies like Disney to use machine-made works. They won’t be able to enforce copyright on them, which makes those works less valuable than human-led works that they can fully protect. If machine works suddenly have the same copyright status as human-led works, then a corporation like Disney has much greater incentive to replace human creators as quickly as possible with machines, because the machines will be able to scale their created works to levels only limited by compute power. Tools like Stable Diffusion XL Turbo can generate an image in 207 milliseconds – that’s a fifth of a second. How quickly could a Disney or a Netflix engineer a gigantic content catalog that is entirely protected by copyright and that they could enforce over any human creator?

This is why it’s so important that we lobby our various governments around the world to keep machine-made content without any intellectual property rights. Write your elected representatives today to let them know your position on copyright and intellectual property rights being reserved solely for humans. Machine-made works should remain in the public domain so that human-led works are always inherently more valuable. If we allow machine-made works to be copyrighted and protected, we forfeit our own creative futures to the libraries created by a few well-funded companies that have the compute power to create every foreseeable variation of commercially viable content there is, and every other creator will have to pay them.

Now, as I said at the top, I am not a lawyer, and I have no legal background. If you’re a lawyer and I’m wrong about the law and how things would work in a world where AI can hold copyright, please leave a note in the comments to let me know what the real deal is as an attorney.

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In today’s episode, we explore the remarkable capabilities of generative AI, particularly in the realm of programming and task automation. You’ll learn how combining tools like ChatGPT with programming languages can create custom software solutions for complex tasks, from data processing to summarization. Discover the potential of using AI to generate coding scripts, enabling you to tackle unique challenges in your workflow. Tune in to understand how you can harness the power of generative AI to innovate and streamline your processes.

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Christopher Penn: In today’s episode, Noel asks, What are some effective ways to do content curation? That’s a bit vague.

I’m going to assume you mean content curation, perhaps for social media marketing purposes, where you want to be able to share relevant content to your audience.

There’s two basic ways to do this right manual and automated.

The automated way is to use any number of systems, there’s so many systems out there that can identify top performing content within a time range, and export the data, SEMRush, and Ahrefs, and spy foo, and Buzzsumo, and you name it, there’s so many packages that can do that.

It’s just a question of you coming up with good queries for the systems that will export that data and the export the URLs.

And now you’ve got the thing.

I wrote my own content curation system years ago, that I still maintain today that has keyword based search.

So I downloads, like 1500 blogs, on a weekly basis, it scans those blogs for keywords, tallies them up, and then presents me with a list of here’s the number of blog posts from that week, scored by these various topics, pick the ones you want to share, right? That’s a very straightforward way of approaching these things.

And again, there’s so many tools, a lot of SEO tools have this capability built in, all you need to do is come up with what it is you want them to extract.

But a second approach that relies upon you doing your browsing in a in a browser like Google Chrome, is something a tool, a plugin called Chrome history.

And what this does is it exports your browsing history for the last week, or month or however long you want.

And what you get is a CSV file of all the places you’ve been.

And then it’s up to you to sift through that and you know, trying to remember those things that were noteworthy.

There are also manual assistance tools, there are tools like pocket and insta paper and so many others where you can bookmark pieces of content that you want to come back to later.

And then from there, you can, you can curate that.

The challenge with content curation isn’t the tools it is really comes down to the purpose why you’re doing it.

If you think about the Trust Insights 5p framework, purpose people process platform performance, people is you process is manual or automated.

The platform is the technologies you choose to use, but it really comes down to perform to purpose and performance.

What do you want your content curation to do? Do you want to share stuff to create visibility for publications that you like? Do you want to boost your own credibility by sharing stuff from industry leaders? If so, you might need a different system that can identify the authors of content you’re sharing so that you can tag them on services like LinkedIn.

Do you want to share stuff that you find funny? Do you want to share stuff that you find interesting or educational? Coming up with that purpose is really the most important part of content curation.

Once you’ve got that down, the rest of the stuff is pretty block and tackle.

There’s tools that do it.

There’s processes you can build.

And having that purpose also dictates the performance of what it is that you want to measure if you are building.

If you want to do content curation for the purposes of building your reputation, you better have a way to measure that.

Is that the number of impressions that your posts get on LinkedIn is the number of engagements? Is it traffic to your blog or subscribers to your YouTube channel? What constitutes success? If you define that as part of the purpose and the performance, then your content curation efforts will be much more effective.

The biggest problem I’ve seen with other content curation programs is that people are not clear about their preferred purpose or their performance.

So they just kind of did it.

And then we’re like, I don’t know what value I’m getting out of this.

Well, you didn’t specify a value to begin with.

So of course, you don’t know what you’re gonna get out of it, because it’s, it’s, it’s unclear.

Once you say I want this for building credibility, among a select set of experts, then everything else falls into place.

Right? So that’s, that’s where I would start with content curation is defining your purpose, defining your performance.

And then you can figure out the people, the process, the platform, that part, pretty straightforward.

It’s a good question.

I hope the answer is helpful to you, and gives you a starting point for what you want to do.

And by the way, if you do this exercise, the five P’s with your content curation, it also makes vendor selection much easier.

If you’re going to do the automated approach with some kind of software, if you’re very clear about the requirements, but what you need the software to do, then when it comes time to start selecting vendors, fast and easy, fast and easy, because you’ve already done the hard work.

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What’s On My Mind: Prompt Engineering and Latent Space

This week, let’s talk about prompt engineering and latent space. This is a concept that I’m working on for our upcoming Advanced Prompt Engineering Course, which will be a supplement to our Generative AI For Marketers course.

There are a ton of different prompting strategies out there on the Internet, and a gazillion people hawking their secret prompt recipes for whatever amount of money they’re charging. How good are these prompts? Are they worth spending money on? What about all the other prompts people are sharing on LinkedIn and other social networks?

To answer this question, we have to start with latent space. What the heck is this? Latent space is the encoded knowledge of language in a large language model. It’s the stored patterns of data that captures relationships and, when prompted, reconstructs language from those patterns.

Let’s give a tangible example. Suppose you wanted to build a pizza model, an AI that could generate pizza. You’d take photo after photo of pizza after pizza, noting how all the toppings looked. You’d look at the relationships between toppings and cheese, where the toppings are spread, whether they’re on top or under the cheese, what kind of cheese was used, how much sauce was used. You’d measure this from every pizza you could get your hands on, and when you were done, you’d have a database of measurements about pizza. You’d have things like the average number of slices of pepperoni, or how close the jalapeños are to the onions, or how much pineapple belongs on a pizza.

Then, when someone came to you and said, hey, I want a pepperoni and pineapple pizza, you would go into your HUGE catalog of statistics and query it for pineapple and pepperoni, get some averaged answers about how much of each belongs on the pizza, etc. and you can bake a pizza with those directions.

That database of statistics is the latent space. It’s an understanding of patterns that you can use to generate new outputs. This, by the way, is why the issue of copyright is so tricky with generative AI; the original author’s works, be they words or images, are NOT in the model. Statistical descriptions of an author’s works are, but just like our pizza database contains no actual pizza, a language model or a diffusion model contains no actual original works.

Okay, so the latent space is basically a statistical database. What does this have to do with prompting a language model? All language models are trained from large text databases, like Common Crawl, ArXiv, StackExchange, Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, etc. Those big databases contain varying amounts of knowledge on a significant number of topics – and the quality of knowledge varies wildly. Just because it’s in Wikipedia doesn’t make it correct, and just because it’s on Blogspot doesn’t make it wrong.

When we write a prompt for a language model, our prompt is ingested by the model and matched up against its latent space, against its database of statistics. It returns a pile of statistics that then get assembled as words, just like a recipe is ingested by a chef’s mind and performed into food.

If we prompt a language model and we get a dissatisfactory response, it’s very likely the prompt we used was insufficient when it comes to the very largest models. But it’s equally possible – and grows more probable the smaller a model gets – that the latent space of the model may not have enough information about what we’re prompting it about.

What happens in that case? The model hallucinates – which is tech speak for drawing on the next set of likely probabilities, even if they are factually wrong. A model that doesn’t know the exact specifics of a prompt because the knowledge isn’t in its latent space will choose the closest match – that’s how models work. We interpret that as a mistake, but the model is actually functioning correctly.

For example, in the early days of language models, when they were trained with relatively small amounts of data and not fine tuned to follow instructions based on millions of examples, you could ask a model who was President of the United States in 1492. We know from history and reasoning capabilities that there was no President of the United States in 1492 because there was no United States in 1492. But a model doesn’t reason – it just assembles probabilities. The President of the United States is a person, and typically a prominent person (unless you were President Taylor or President Van Buren, names no one can seem to remember). 1492 is associated for good or ill with a prominent person, Christopher Columbus. In the absence of a factually correct statistical match, early language models replied that Christopher Columbus was President of the United States in 1492. Statistically, a sensible answer even though it’s factually wrong.

A key part of advanced prompt engineering is knowing the limitations of a language model’s latent space. You have to assess its latent space for a given topic to know what it knows on that topic – assuming it’s important enough for you to want to use generative AI in the first place – before you can start constructing prompts. Otherwise, you will prompt it for things it doesn’t know well, and the answers you get back will have a high chance of hallucination. They’ll be statistically correct under the hood, but factually wrong from a reasoning standpoint.

Going back to our pizza analogy, suppose you gave your pizza chef a request for a pizza with ham and pineapple, but our chef had never heard of a pineapple. Chef knows that from our description, pineapple is a tropical fruit, a sweet fruit, and a yellow fruit, so chef makes us a pizza with their best guess:

image generated with DALL-E 3 via Microsoft Bing Image Creator

…a ham and banana pizza. You can see how, from a descriptive characteristics perspective, pineapple and banana might be thought of similarly, but… no. If you think pineapple doesn’t belong on pizza, banana REALLY doesn’t belong on pizza.

But that’s a concrete example of prompting a model for something that isn’t in its latent space, isn’t in the database of knowledge that it has, and it substituting the next closest thing that seems rational and logical, but is very much not the same thing.

How do you assess a model’s latent space? By asking it about what it knows on a topic, especially deep into the topic. If you know the topic well, you can ascertain just how deep a model’s knowledge goes before it runs out of knowledge and starts to hallucinate. For example, I started with this very, very technical prompt:

Describe the key characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 JN.1 clade in terms of the L455S mutation.

When I ran this in Chatbot Arena, one model said the JN.1’s parent lineage is BA.2.86, while another model said JN.1 is also known as BA.2.75:

The second model’s response is factually incorrect – JN.1 comes from the BA.2.86 lineage. The model hallucinated, meaning that its latent space doesn’t know about what the JN.1 clade actually is.

What do you do when you evaluate a model and find its limitations? Latent space is basically the database that the model draws from, so if you find out a model lacks knowledge on a topic, you have to provide that knowledge. That means incorporating the knowledge either in the prompt itself, or through uploading data and documents like in ChatGPT and Custom GPTs. By providing the data you want the model to use, you are effectively increasing the latent space of the model and reducing the likelihood that it’s going to hallucinate on you.

This is the key part that prompt engineering guides overlook: no matter how good your prompt is, if the model doesn’t have knowledge of what you’re prompting, your prompt will not perform well. It’s like asking a chef to cook with ingredients they don’t know. You can be incredibly clear in your instructions, but if the chef has no knowledge of what you’re asking, you will NEVER get a satisfactory result without providing the ingredients for the chef (and maybe making it for them a couple of times so they can actually taste it themselves and understand it).

This is also why prompts should generally be associated with specific models; the prompt I used above would best be used in models that know what the JN.1 clade is, and should not be used in models that are unaware of it. Now, for common, old topics like management skills or personal finance, a prompt is probably fairly portable. But the deeper a dive you need to do, the more specific you’ll need to be about which model to use with prompts on the topic – and which supplementary data you’ll have to provide, no matter what.

Finally, apparently no one likes the idea of banana on pizza. I’m not thrilled with it either.

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ICYMI: In Case You Missed it

Besides the new Generative AI for Marketers course I’m relentlessly flogging, I recommend the piece on legality of works in Custom GPTs, made with the assistance of 3 actual lawyers.

• You Ask, I Answer: Legality of Works in Custom GPTs?
• You Ask, I Answer: Retrieval Augmented Generation vs Fine-Tuning?
• You Ask, I Answer: Should Generative AI Be In Your Product?
• Mind Readings: Climate Change is Structural Inflation
• Almost Timely News, January 14, 2024: The Future of Generative AI is Open
• Mind Readings: AI Ethics Inside Language Models
• Now With More Fake Comments
• So What? Generative AI Analytics
• In-Ear Insights: Unlocking Workforce Potential with Generative AI

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• Exploratory Data Analysis: The Missing Ingredient for AI
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What I’m Reading: Your Stuff

Let’s look at the most interesting content from around the web on topics you care about, some of which you might have even written.

Social Media Marketing

• Social Media Publishing: What Is Social Publishing? What Are Its Basics?
• Social Media Case Studies: Get Inspired to Prove ROI in 2024
• Social Media Posting Schedule Guide via Agorapulse

Media and Content

• A 2024 Guide to the YouTube Algorithm: Everything You Need to Know to Boost Your Content
• Content clusters: What are they and do you need them? Yoast
• By the numbers: This is how many pitches actually get responses via PR Daily

SEO, Google, and Paid Media

• Google Responds To Claims Of Garbage AI Content In Google News
• How Many Keywords Should You Track for SEO in 2024? via Portent
• 14 Ways to Improve Ecommerce Product Pages for SEO

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Tools, Machine Learning, and AI

• Zuckerberg Says Meta Is Pushing Hard To Lead the AI Future via Social Media Today
• Fairly Trained launches to certify AI tools trained on licensed data | VentureBeat
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still chasing billions to build AI chips via The Verge

Analytics, Stats, and Data Science

• Why Web Analytics Is Important For Digital Marketers via Simplilearn
• TaskWeaver: A code-first agent framework for efficient data analytics and domain adaptation via Microsoft Research
• 55 Instagram Statistics And Facts For 2024

All Things IBM

• How one IBMer is creating a more sustainable future for the island where he grew up via IBM Blog
• Chatbot examples: A beginners guide via IBM Blog
• Accelerating sustainable modernization with Green IT Analyzer on AWS via IBM Blog

Dealer’s Choice : Random Stuff

• The Internet Is Being Ruined by Bloated Junk via The Atlantic
• Are Companies Getting Away with ‘Cheap Talk’ on Climate Goals? via HBS Working Knowledge
• The Surprising Secret to Stand-Out Ideas – Tamsen Webster

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Events I’ll Be At

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• Tourism Industry Association of Alberta’s Tourism Summit, Edmonton, February 2024
• Independent Consortium of Booksellers Association, Denver, February 2024
• Social Media Marketing World, San Diego, February 2024
• MarketingProfs AI Series, Virtual, March 2024
• Australian Food and Grocery Council, Melbourne, May 2024
• MAICON, Cleveland, September 2024

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Thank You

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See you next week,

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