Building a Command ARR+ agent

This month superstar LLM startup Cohere released their Command-R+ model. I experimented with this model to create a functional (and ...

In tutorial, LLM, Apr 11, 2024

EU's AI Act - What it is, what it means

On Wednesday, European Union leaders approved the AI Act, which proposes a “risk categorization” framework for the use of AI. Some u...

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Building a Command ARR+ agent

This month superstar LLM startup Cohere released their Command-R+ model. I experimented with this model to create a functional (and free!) agent workflow to look up local events.

In tutorial, LLM, Apr 11, 2024

Teaching text representation techniques

This is an update of some materials from my Harvard NLP course. I focused here on three methods for representation of text data that are simple, quick and transparent. This is part ...

In tutorial, NLP, Mar 29, 2024

EU's AI Act - What it is, what it means

On Wednesday, European Union leaders approved the AI Act, which proposes a “risk categorization” framework for the use of AI. Some uses will be banned all together, while others will...

In AI policy, articles, Mar 15, 2024

LLM Apps Part 7 - Looking ahead

We’ve come to the end of my LLM app series (for now). I really enjoyed putting this together and I will be working in the coming weeks on expanding some of these sections. I’m looki...

In LLM App Series, LLM, tutorials, Mar 08, 2024

LLM Apps Part 6 - Call my LLM agent!

We’ve explored how to make our LLM applications conversational, relevant and personalized, but now it’s time to put them to work.

In LLM App Series, LLM, tutorials, Feb 26, 2024

Insight Lane at MIT

I’m still cranking away at part 6 of my LLM series, but I didn’t want you all to think I’d gone dormant again! This week I got the old band together to promote our Insight Lane crash ...

In updates, Feb 09, 2024

Fine-tuning ChatGPT for Dermatology

The main goal of my project with dermatology tech startup Melatech is to build a prototype clinical note generation engine. The notes generated need to have the following qualities:

In Dermatology, tutorial, LLM, Jan 24, 2024

LLM Apps Part 5 - Even finer tuning - Quantization and LoRA

In this post, we continue exploring how to “tune” the output of our LLM application to be more…Friends-ly.

In LLM App Series, LLM, tutorials, Jan 17, 2024