These mega-prompts are also just a few paragraphs of text. Anyone can copy them and use them. While amazingly-powerful now, they’re not a defensible point of differentiation. Once you get my prompt, you don’t need me anymore.
GENERATIVE AI
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The Growing Power of Text Prompts for AI Systems
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## Prompts as Commodities The power of a block of text has also never been bigger. The right choice of words can result in amazing outputs for AIs.
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Building a Personal Prompt Library for AI Image Generation
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When using Midjourney or Stable Diffusion to create images, you may discover a unique combination of words to use in a prompt that have a wonderful output. How do you save those image tags so you can access them later? Create a personal prompt library.
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Capturing and Organizing Content Ideas From ChatGPT
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When using ChatGPT to outline content, you might discover multiple other topic areas you want to write about. How do you capture those? Create a system for bookmarking and saving ideas.
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AI Early-Adopters Over-Generate Content Beyond Their Goals
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This leads to a behavior, very common with AI early-adopters, where you keep generating new information or content, even AFTER you’ve achieved your goal. What could have been a time savings becomes a net loss.
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Five Traps That Will Sabotage Your ChatGPT Efforts
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5 traps that will sabotage your efforts with ChatGPT and similar tech:
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The Slot Machine Effect: AI’s Addictive Nature and Dopamine Hijacking
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## The Slot Machine Effect Because AIs like ChatGPT and DALL·E generate content from a prompt nearly instantly, they hijack your dopamine in the same way a slot machine does. Press the button and see what magic comes out. It’s addictive — & I’m not using that word figuratively.
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ChatGPT ushers AI into its defining iPhone moment
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ChatGPT's massive popularity has pushed us into an “iphone moment” with AI. Just as apps changed the meaning of "cell phone", over the next few years, much of what used to be true is going to get redfined.
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Chatbots Connected to Search: Sparrow and Perplexity AI
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E.g. our own Sparrow connects a chatbot to @Google search. A cool demo by @perplexity_ai shows something similar, and also allows you to query a @Twitter database for e.g. "histogram of top words from my tweets" (somehow I seem to use @ylecun a lot???).
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LLMs With Tools: Beyond Single-Word Generation
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Many people mistakenly think that large language models that generate one word at a time is the end game.
— Oriol Vinyals (@OriolVinyalsML) 11 janvier 2023
Connecting LLMs with tools, e.g.: search engines, python interpreters, etc., is super exciting, and leverages tools' power, robustness & more! pic.twitter.com/39PmdYEgwvMany people mistakenly think that large language models that generate one word at a time is the end game.
Connecting LLMs with tools, e.g.: search engines, python interpreters, etc., is super exciting, and leverages tools' power, robustness & more!