Causal Deference
John McDonnellNavigating the most important century. AI, Tech, Media, maybe Spirituality if things get wild.
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GPTs: What are they good for?
Last year I built an app using GPT-3 as a way of kicking the tires. This was the days before ChatGPT was released and people were still prompt hacking to get useful stuff out of it. I framed the problem like this: Can I get GPT-3 to produce...
What do we want from AI?
Hi all! It’s been almost a year since I’ve posted to this substack. Sorry. My wife is about to have a baby and this is a great forcing function for sending an update, even though I don’t exactly have a thesis right now.
My interests this y...
OpenAI comes clean about GPT 3.5
GPT-3 has been available since 2020, so why does it feel like the hype is only getting started now? The reason is that OpenAI’s models got much better. They got better thanks to instruction tuning. But not quite in the way we thought.
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In 2022, large language models (LLMs) finally got good. Specifically, Google and OpenAI have led the way in creating foundation models that respond to instructions more usefully. For OpenAI, this came in the form of Instruct-GPT (OpenAI blo...
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AI, the information revolution, and building. On sabbatical at South Park Commons. Alum of Stitch Fix, Square, PhD from Gureckis Lab @ NYU, BASc from McGill Cognitive Science.
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