
Multimodal by Bakz T. Future
Multimodal is a podcast about all things GPT-3, DALL-E, and multimodal AI models. Exploring the intersection of AI, creativity, and technology. Hosted by YouTube Creator Bakz T. Future.
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Feb 10, 2022 • 1h 39min
#28 - The Art of Prompt Design, OpenAI Codex, Fine Tuning and More with Author David Shapiro (daveshapautomator)
Welcome back to Multimodal! Today's very special guest is David Shapiro. He's an author, IT professional, and frequent OpenAI community forums contributor.
In this wide ranging discussion, we discuss the art of prompt design, his thoughts on InstructGPT, OpenAI codex, his new book, the OpenAI community at large, and share thoughts on fine tuning and so much more.
Podcast Discussion Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
02:48 - How David heard about OpenAI's GPT-3
05:57 - David's first time trying GPT-3/his favourite use cases
10:38 - Did GPT-3 feel advanced to you?
15:00 - What are the keys to great GPT-3 prompt design?
18:34 - How do you become a better writer?
25:43 - GPT-3: The end of the socially awkward developer (?)
30:16 - Is GPT-3 Prompt Design Over? (Chatting About InstructGPT)
34:21 - Open Fine Tuning Lessons Learned
42:00 - OpenAI Codex / David's Billion Dollar Use Case Idea
50:00 - Which AI Models David is using currently
53:15 - David's Book - Natural Language Cognitive Architecture
1:01:25 - What is the pathway from now to true AGI?
1:08:41 - Thoughts/feedback about the OpenAI Community Forums
1:18:40 - My Feedback on OpenAI's Community Forums
1:22:00 - My Feedback on OpenAI's Community Forums II #hottake
1:24:46 - Multimodal AI technology
1:27:43 - What would you do with Multimodal AI?
1:32:38 - Where do you see all of this stuff going? 5-10 years
1:35:24 - Closing thoughts
Show Notes/Links
OpenAI:
https://openai.com/blog/instruction-following/
https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex/
https://beta.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning
Fine tuning notes:
https://bakztfuture.substack.com/p/openai-fine-tuning-feedbacknotes
GPT-3 navigates the New York subway by Mark Ryan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzb1Vc8dYAY
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
https://www.amazon.ca/Language-Instinct-How-Mind-Creates/dp/1491514981
My Biggest 2022 Prediction: GPT-3 will take over schools and college campuses
https://bakztfuture.substack.com/p/my-biggest-2022-prediction-gpt-3
GPT-3 - The End of the Socially Awkward Developer (?)
https://bakztfuture.substack.com/p/gpt-3-the-end-of-the-socially-awkward
GPT-3 Twitter Spaces Event:
https://twitter.com/bakztfuture/status/1491260407579054087?cxt=HHwWjsDU1ZHcgrIpAAAA
Follow David Shapiro (daveshapautomator):
https://www.davidkshapiro.com/home
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dshap-automator/
https://github.com/daveshap
https://community.openai.com/u/daveshapautomator/summary
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Feb 1, 2022 • 31min
#27 - OpenAI’s New Embeddings API Endpoint, InstructGPT Announcement (Fine Tuning Research)
Welcome back to Multimodal! We start off the podcast by talking about the current tense global geopolitical situation, the decline of google search results (and the GPT-3 opportunity as a result of this), OpenAI's new Embeddings API Endpoint, and the InstructGPT announcement which has significant implications for the language model space.
In this episode, I discuss a few topics:
00:00 - Intro
02:15 - Tense Geopolitical Situation between the USA, Russia, and Ukraine
08:14 - Why I sometimes use GPT-3 instead of Google Search
15:19 - OpenAI's New Embeddings API Endpoint
21:07 - InstructGPT Announcement, Fine Tuning Research
2022 Predictions Article:
https://bakztfuture.substack.com/p/gpt-3multimodalopenai-predictions
Tweet about Google Search results:
https://twitter.com/bakztfuture/status/1483590498396823557
OpenAI's embeddings endpoint:
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-text-and-code-embeddings/
Sam Altman Tweet about the future of search:
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1486557423674347525
Instruct GPT announcement:
https://openai.com/blog/instruction-following/
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Jan 18, 2022 • 37min
#26 - GPT-3 Insurance Idea, Debating OpenAI’s Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Policies
Welcome back to Multimodal! We start off the podcast by talking about the pace/rhythm we're seeing so far in the GPT-3/multimodal space, then talking about very specific GPT-3 related topics such as language model insurance and OpenAI's policies around bringing your own API key.
In this episode, I discuss a few topics:
00:00 - Intro
01:48 - "we're not moving fast enough" tweet
07:48 - GPT-3/Large Scale Language Model Business Insurance Idea
20:03 - Discussing OpenAI's Bring Your Own Key Policy
"not moving fast enough" tweet:
https://twitter.com/bakztfuture/status/1481428332222853122
GPT-3/Large Scale Language Model Business Insurance:
https://bakztfuture.substack.com/p/gpt-3large-scale-language-model-business
Vova Zakharov:
https://twitter.com/vovahimself
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Jan 11, 2022 • 40min
#25 - OpenAI GLIDE, 2022 Predictions, Github Copilot > GPT-3 (?)
Happy new year! In this episode, I discuss a few topics:
00:00 - Intro
01:54 - Podcast Housekeeping
5:28 - Personal Update for the 2022 New Year
8:20 - Note of Compassion about the current socio economic challenges of 2022
11:07 - OpenAI Glide Research Paper Announcement
16:40 - GPT-3/Multimodal/OpenAI Predictions for 2022
33:19 - More GPT-3 Predictions
35:41 - Github Copilot > GPT-3 (?)
Note of compassion tweet:
https://twitter.com/bakztfuture/status/1478380475425173512
OpenAI Glide:
https://github.com/openai/glide-text2im
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10741
DALL-E Discord Community:
https://discord.gg/FCJW2JAu
2022 Predictions:
https://bakztfuture.substack.com/p/gpt-3multimodalopenai-predictions
More Predictions Tweet:
https://twitter.com/bakztfuture/status/1476683313880264708
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Nov 19, 2021 • 19min
#24 - OpenAI‘s GPT-3 is now Publicly Available! 🎉🎉🎉
In this episode, I discuss the OpenAI announcement today. They announced that GPT-3 has been opened up to the public. I share my personal story with GPT-3, my excitement for others to try out GPT-3, and share two predictions I have about how the community may evolve over the next few months.
Please note, you must be 18 years or older in order to use GPT-3 or the OpenAI platform, it is clearly mentioned in the OpenAI terms of service agreement.
OpenAI signup:
https://beta.openai.com/signup
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Nov 1, 2021 • 26min
#23 - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman‘s Worldcoin and Math GPT-3 Announcement Discussion
This week in the podcast, I'm discussing the latest research developments coming from OpenAI as well as the new cryptocurrency started by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
02:32 - OpenAI Codex last episode follow up
09:30 - Sam Altman's Worldcoin / Conspiracy Theory about the purpose of this cryptocurrency
17:54 - "Math GPT-3" Review
Carp:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03111
GPT-3 vs OpenAI codex on Google trends:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/1634520000?hl=en-GB&tz=240&date=all&geo=CA&q=gpt-3,openai+codex&sni=3
Codex polls:
https://twitter.com/bakztfuture/status/1450814233231314948
https://www.youtube.com/user/bakztfuture/community
Worldcoin - https://worldcoin.org/
"Math GPT-3" blog post - https://openai.com/blog/grade-school-math/
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Oct 18, 2021 • 30min
#22 - Is OpenAI Codex Fizzling Out?
Is OpenAI Codex fizzling out? Today, I explore potential reasons why this could be the case.
05:42 - GPT-3 product launch vs. OpenAI Codex product launch
09:30 - What do I believe may be the cause of OpenAI Codex fizzling out? Reason #1 ...
10:28 - Reason #2
12:15 - Reason #3
13:34 - OpenAI codex use cases
14:40 - The best use case for OpenAI Codex
18:31 - OpenAI Codex UI
20:50 - OpenAI Codex Javascript Sandbox is awesome
22:20 - Zero shot code generation
GPT-3 vs OpenAI codex on Google trends:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/1634520000?hl=en-GB&tz=240&date=all&geo=CA&q=gpt-3,openai+codex&sni=3
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Oct 12, 2021 • 47min
#21 - Discussing GPT-3, OpenAI Codex, and Multimodal AI with YouTube Creator Sandra Kublik
Chatting about GPT-3, YouTube Content Creation, Codex, and Multimodal AI with my friend Sandra Kublik!
Podcast breakdown:
02:10 - discussing Sandra's latest (trippy) video
13:14 - Thoughts about GPT-3
22:08 - OpenAI Codex early impressions
31:35 - Thoughts on DALL-E
37:31 - Kairos Data Labs and Sandra's upcoming book on GPT-3
Sandra Kublik:
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrakublik/
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/technocratic
Twitter https://twitter.com/sandra_kublik/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sandra_kublik/
Kairos Data Labs:
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/79707767/
Twitter https://twitter.com/KairosDataLabs
Nextgrid: https://nextgrid.ai/ https://www.meetup.com/pl-PL/Deep-Learning-Labs/
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Sep 29, 2021 • 47min
#20 - GPT-X, DALL-E, and our Multimodal Future Closing Thoughts, Clubhouse Event, and more!
And that's a wrap! All 19 videos of GPT-X, DALL-E, and our Multimodal Future have been released.
In this episode I talk about:
the upcoming clubhouse event I'm throwing to discuss the future of AI and Creativity
recap and expand on all the videos in this series
talk about the future of this podcast
Check out the series at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLza3gaByGSXjUCtIuv2x9fwkx3K_3CDmw
Clubhouse Free Event Link:
https://www.clubhouse.com/event/PN6bAp0l
Please note the event will now be at 1 PM EST not 4 PM EST like it was originally scheduled.
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Sep 7, 2021 • 43min
#19 - Discussing Housing, Policy, and AI with Kemal Ahmed (York Centre NDP MP Candidate)
In today's episode, I took a break from discussing GPT-X, DALL-E, and our Multimodal Future to talk with my friend Kemal Ahmed who is a technologist running for office as the NDP Candidate for the York Centre riding. Kemal may also be the first Canadian Politician ever to use GPT-3 as a part of his political campaign.
We discuss various topics like:
Increased housing prices
What it's like being a millenial nowadays in the Greater Toronto Area
What he thinks about GPT-3, how he's using it in his political campaign
His thoughts on AI and governance
Why it's important for technologists to run for office in the future
Kemal Ahmed
https://kemalahmed.ca/
https://twitter.com/kemalahmedproud
https://kemalahmed.ca/volunteer/
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