J Rice

The kind of turmoil that has occurred at OpenAI in the last few days is surprisingly common, but rarely plays out in public. OpenAI is unprecedented in its impact in the last year, which makes this even more interesting. Maybe the not really that Traitorous Eight is the closest example

If you only found out about the OpenAI turmoil through this article, I commend your ability to disconnect from all electronic devices. Here is an excellent article to get you started: https://thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com/p/why-openai-fired-sam-altman-and-what Back in March of ‘23, a lot of leaders asked for a 6

If you read the other postings about "Trial and Error and Succeed" and "Hallmark of a Great Organization Is Safety in Failure." you will sense a theme there. It is about safety, experimentation, learning, and collaboration. These are all hallmarks of a "Generative Culture."

This is a follow up to https://www.tinselai.com/trial-and-error-and-succeed/ Buzz Word Bingo: You hear all these buzz statements about "fail well," "fail fast," and "fail friendly." Ok, I just made that last one up, but you get the idea. If you enter

If you have children, watched children, or watched adults who act like children, you have discovered that trial and error is how they learn. They speed run the mistakes of the past no matter what you tell them in a crazy attempt at a different outcome. To be clear, sometimes

I took a break for a bit from posting about Strategy, LLMs, ChatGPT, Architecture, Data Privacy, Security, and other random bits to migrate all my writing over to my own site. I found LinkedIn to be mercurial at times with its posting methodologies; finding old posts is wonky, it has

Laker AI added another level (level 8) to Gandalf. He came back as Gandalf The White, but I pwned him again.  Previous pwnage: https://www.tinselai.com/i-pwned-gandalf-and-i-liked-it/ I took out Gandalf The Grey last week and Gandalf The White today. Sauron here I come! :-) Thanks for the fun!

I pwned Gandalf from Laker AI. It is a fantastic little prompt hacking challenge they have built based on OpenAI's GPT. In this you attempt to bypass the controls Lakera's Blue Team have built to prevent prompt injection, protection of confidential information, etc. I got through

OpenAI is now putting out some documentation regarding their approach to GDPR. And it hints at some limitations, which I talk about below. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7842364-how-chatgpt-and-our-language-models-are-developed Given the design of their LLM, I doubt they could comply with data deletion requests under GDPR and other privacy

This is an amazing and scary application of a GPT. TLDR: Researchers used a GPT to help decode human thoughts from MRI images. This technology is still in its infancy and takes significant resources but is capable of greater than 80% accuracy. The amazing applications of this could be for