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Artificial Neural Networks Are Nothing Like Brains
Busting the biggest public misconception in AI
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Fine-tuning Large Language Models
Or how to actually train your own chatbot.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Optimizing LLMs
Techniques to make a large language model run on commodity hardware.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
2
Agents as the Final Frontier in Large Language Modeling
Bringing LLMs to life with beliefs, goals, and intentions.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
7
Code Generation is the Next Milestone Towards AGI
How to turn a stochastic parrot into a general-purpose problem solver.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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What you need to master Prompt Engineering
High-level principles and reusable techniques to get the best out of a large language model with clever prompting.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Make your LLM phone home
How to extend your LLM capabilities by integrating with any API
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
2
What can you do with a language model?
An exploration of the most exiting uses of LLMs, beyond the typical chatbot.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
9
What is Retrieval Augmented Generation?
The simplest and most effective way to make a large language model more accurate, knowledgeable, and robust in practical, domain-specific applications.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
2
The most important lesson in Machine Learning
Most applied machine learning research looks beautiful in the paper, but fails spectacularly in real-life. They all fall prey to the same mistake: the…
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Why reliable AI requires a paradigm shift
Hallucinations are the fundamental barrier for the widespread use of AI, and they won't be solved anytime soon.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Why Alignment is the Hardest Problem in AI
And probably the hardest engineering problem we've ever faced.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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