Posted by Jim Craner on June 8, 2023

I thought I'd share some of the links that we're reading in this week's PLAID workshops...

This week's "AI in the News" roundup:

Pew says "few have tried" ChatGPT -- but 1 in 7 doesn't sound too "few" to me. Good article on the spread of ChatGPT in the US:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/24/a-majority-of-america...

The National Eating Disorder Association replaced their unionizing helpline staff with a chatbot last month:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ezkm/eating-disorder-helpline-fires-st...

The National Eating Disorder Association, who you may remember from the previous paragraph, took their new helpline chatbot offline after it went rogue and started giving harmful advice:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eating-disorder-helpline-chatbot-disabled/

In this week's PLAID workshop, we'll be studying materials from these OpenAI docs:

https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/techniques_to_improv...
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/gpt-best-practices/strategy-writ...
https://openai.com/blog/new-ways-to-manage-your-data-in-chatgpt

And some unofficial docs NOT from OpenAI:

https://github.com/brexhq/prompt-engineering