Special tokens like these are used to delimit things like "this section is the user asking a question" vs "this section is an answer from the LLM" – or sometimes for things like "this is the output of a separate tool" I have no idea what those gh ones are for!
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Understanding Tokenizers: The Vocabulary of AI Models
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I wrote this explainer on tokenizers last year: https://
simonwillison.net/2023/Jun/8/gpt
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AI Models Remain Vulnerable to Adversarial Attacks
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Sadly not: that paper concludes with "Finally, our current models are likely still vulnerable to powerful adversarial attacks." More of my notes here:
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Claude 3 Opus and Meta.ai compete for LLM dominance
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Claude 3 Opus from Anthropic is a genuine competitor now FOR BASIC LLM stuff, it's very worth trying out https://
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Running ONNX Models on macOS Successfully
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This ONNX one should run nicely on macOS if we can figure out the necessary incantations
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Running 128K Token Model on Mac: Technical Setup Guide
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Anyone got a working recipe for running the 128,000 token variant on a Mac?
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Impressive Performance of Compact 2.2G Model File
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First impressions: this thing is wildly impressive for a 2.2G model file
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Phi-3 Language Model Released with 4K and 128K Context Options
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Phi-3 is out – I just got the 4,000 token context model running using llamafile from the instructions in their README https://
huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-
3-mini-4k-instruct-gguf
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Llama 3, AI Data Journalism, LLM Evaluation Tools
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Weeknotes: Llama 3, AI for Data Journalism, llm-evals and datasette-secrets