Word Cloud

Tim Walz’s VP Speech as a Word Cloud

One excellent use of a Word Cloud, in my opinion, is to get the gist of a speech, especially one by a politician. Yesterday, Tim Walz gave his VP nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Here is a word cloud below represents the text of Tim Walz’s speech.

AI Automating Tasks

Using the ChatGPT API to automate tasks

The web interface for ChatGPT is great, but it does not always deliver what we want. In this post I want to describe how creating a simple call to the ChatGPT API can give a range of benefits. The example I am going to share in this post comes from a course I am running on how to the ChatGPT API.

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Using ChatGPT to Help Decode Client Briefs

In this post, I will illustrate how to use ChatGPT to review a brief to probe for insights into the client’s research and business questions and provide clues as to what the client is likely looking for.

Tech in the naughty corner

Why are Apple and Facebook Threatening to put Europe in the AI Naughty Corner?

Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has announced that it will not release its advanced AI model (an update to Llama) in the EU. They say this is because they fear European regulations. This news comes hard on the heels of Apple’s announcement that its generative AI tools may not be available in the EU. Here are some thoughts on the why?

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Speaking Nicely to Generative AI Seems to Help Get Better Answers

In a paper published in April this year, researchers showed how speaking more collaboratively to LLMs seems to generate better responses. The paper describes how Chengrun Yang, Xuezhi Wang, Yifeng Lu, Hanxiao Liu, Quoc V. Le, Denny Zhou, and Xinyun Chen conducted a series of experiments to explore how different strategies for prompts delivered different answers.

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Is weighting a form of synthetic data?

One of the surprises about the sudden and widespread interest in Synthetic Data is that it has forced us to revisit things we have been doing for decades. This revisiting of old practices is useful for framing where we think Synthetic Data should go and how it should be evaluated and regulated. In this post I explore why weighting is a form of synthetic data and what that means for researchers.

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Synthetic Data –an Overview, a Taxonomy & some FAQs

AI is a hot topic, and in the insight and research ecosystem, the hottest topic is Synthetic Data. In this post, I look at what Synthetic Data means, why it is such a hot topic, some of the key issues, and share some thoughts about Synthetic Data and its use.