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Friday, 31st March 2023

Downloading and converting the original models (Cerebras-GPT) (via) Georgi Gerganov added support for the Apache 2 licensed Cerebras-GPT language model to his ggml C++ inference library, as used by llama.cpp.

# 4:28 am / opensocial, llama, edge-llms, llms, cerebras

How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide (via) Ethan Mollick’s guide to practical usage of large language model chatbot like ChatGPT 3.5 and 4, Bing, Claude and Bard is the best I’ve seen so far. He includes useful warnings about common traps and things that these models are both useful for and useless at.

# 6:17 am / bing, ai, chatgpt, bard, llms, ethan-mollick, claude

You’ll often find prompt engineers come from a history, philosophy, or English language background, because it’s wordplay. You're trying to distill the essence or meaning of something into a limited number of words.

Albert Phelps

# 5:54 pm / ai, prompt-engineering, llms