GenAI resources

Some curated GenAI resources.

My Top 5

As of 2025-01-10

Articles I enjoyed

Research papers I enjoyed

Tools

Tools I am using

Tools to look at

Prompt Engineering

WARNING: shelf-life is short as new models get better every day.

Performance evaluation

WARNING: this is a hard problem; most approaches are too generic and do not answer the question “which is model is best for you”.

Relevant quotes

“They [LLMs] are dream machines. We direct their dreams with prompts.”

Source: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1733299213503787018?lang=en

“As an analogy, artificial flight does not involve the kinds of things that are used to achieve flight by animals in non-human ecosystems. The goals of aeronautical engineers are not those of zoologists. Their methods and aims diverge accordingly.”

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.08790

Electric motors are a general-purpose technology, but you don’t buy a box of electric motors from Home Depot - you buy a drill, a washing machine and a blender. A general-purpose technology is instantiated as use-cases.

Source: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2024/6/8/building-ai-products

”[…] the problem with Alchemy of yore was not that Chemistry is useless, but that people wanted to delude themselves that Chemistry – a pretty amazing discipline on its own merits – can be Nuclear Physics if you prompt it just so.”

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.01817

People I follow (alphabetic order)

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