AI Reading for Tuesday November 26

Nov 26, 2024

Neuralink wants to hook up its brain implant to a robotic arm. - Business Insider

Doc Ock, LFG

After hyping vaporware that is not being tested on any public roads, Tesla appears to be taking steps to build a tele-operation capability to support future robotaxis on the road. - TechCrunch

Kai-Fu Lee on the rapid drop in AI costs. Cost of AI search dropped by a factor of 100, can train a very good model for $3m. - WIRED

Seems underreported that a Google Gemma 9b parameter model you can run on your MacBook beats early GPT-4s.

Mollick: good enough prompting.

I generally come up with an starter prompt using the CLEAR acronym, and then give it to ChatGPT and Claude to iterate and improve on it.

CLEAR = Context (role), Limits/length, Examples/elaborate, Audience target, Reflect/Review

Couple blog posts on prompting 101

Jensen Huang has AI teach him stuff by prompting it, asking why it gave its answer, to break it down to "step by step," explain its reasoning in different ways, "apply this reasoning to something else" and finally requests some analogies. - Business Insider

Chat with your data with Julius AI - Fast Company

Mollick also shared this one a few days ago. Aide and Modular are 2 data science assistants. There is a crossover where if you spend an hour on eg a Kaggle task they will probably outperform you but if you spend a few hours you will beat them.

~~O1-preview keeps improving for longer, but if you are querying it for 8 hours straight you are going to spend some coin.~~ (brain fart. Sonnet with Modular is the way to go, o1-preview will not be better, just more expensive)

Obv, why not both? Typically on complex tasks, human +AI > human alone > AI alone.

Try an advanced assistant and also, work through a Kaggle problem and use AI to ideate and code and improve at each step. Here is the data and documentation on the problem. How could I 1) do exploratory data analysis 2) engineer features 3) select features 4) select a model 5) ensemble models and get the best prediction