Aria on the language of certain FOSS spaces and it’s relationship to llms.

An extensible templating language designed for writing prompts.

A video from Webbed Briefs

The story of Ella was an example of a chatbot working badly. It was also an example of a chatbot working wonderfully. Not once was a landlord’s silence disturbed by this woman and her problems. She was not even a person in the database, but a hysterical pronoun. And how apt, in the end, for her troubles to divert to us, a group of poets and novelists hired specifically for our feelings, who could feel for her endlessly but do nothing else, as we did not know the landlord’s name or how to reach him and lived very far away.

Audience: I assume you heard of chatGPT, maybe played with it a little, and was imressed by it (or tried very hard not to be). And that you also heard that it is “a large language model”. And maybe that it “solved natural language understanding”. Here is a short personal perspective of my thoughts of this (and similar) models, and where we stand with respect to language understanding.

uses an artificial intelligence model named GPT-2 to invent new English words.