News for 14th March: What lurks in LLMs, Ableton 12, and Star Trek musical instruments

It’s been a while! I have decided to split my podcast and newsletter into two streams:

Every two weeks a news and resources round up. You’re reading it! I am not 100% sure where else I will archive those yet.

With that out the way, time to dig in. AI (of course), music, and SciFi this issue.

Rise of Local LLMs ? →

In the not-so-distant past, dabbling in generative AI technology meant leaning heavily on proprietary models. The routine was straightforward: snag an OpenAI key, and you're off to the races, albeit tethered to a pay-as-you-go scheme.

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why. →

Two years ago, Yuri Burda and Harri Edwards, researchers at the San Francisco–based firm OpenAI, were trying to find out what it would take to get a language model to do basic arithmetic.

AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead →

Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tri_...

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