ai-notes

ai-notes

notes for software engineers getting up to speed on new AI developments. Serves as datastore for https://latent.space writing, and product brainstorming, but has cleaned up canonical references under the /Resources folder.

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Notes on AI state of the art, with a focus on generative and large language models. These are the "raw materials" for the https://lspace.swyx.io/ newsletter. This repo used to be called https://github.com/sw-yx/prompt-eng, but was renamed because Prompt Engineering is Overhyped. This is now an AI Engineering notes repo.

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AI Notes

notes on AI state of the art, with a focus on generative and large language models. These are the "raw materials" for the https://lspace.swyx.io/ newsletter.

This repo used to be called https://github.com/sw-yx/prompt-eng, but was renamed because Prompt Engineering is Overhyped. This is now an AI Engineering notes repo.

This Readme is just the high level overview of the space; you should see the most updates in the OTHER markdown files in this repo:

  • TEXT.md - text generation, mostly with GPT-4
    • TEXT_CHAT.md - information on ChatGPT and competitors, as well as derivative products
    • TEXT_SEARCH.md - information on GPT-4 enabled semantic search and other info
    • TEXT_PROMPTS.md - a small swipe file of good GPT3 prompts
  • INFRA.md - raw notes on AI Infrastructure, Hardware and Scaling
  • AUDIO.md - tracking audio/music/voice transcription + generation
  • CODE.md - codegen models, like Copilot
  • IMAGE_GEN.md - the most developed file, with the heaviest emphasis notes on Stable Diffusion, and some on midjourney and dalle.
    • IMAGE_PROMPTS.md - a small swipe file of good image prompts
  • Resources: standing, cleaned up resources that are meant to be permalinked to
  • stub notes - very small/lightweight proto pages of future coverage areas - AGENTS.md - tracking "agentic AI"
  • blog ideas- potential blog post ideas derived from these notes bc
Table of Contents

Motivational Use Cases

Top AI Reads

The more advanced GPT3 reads have been split out to https://github.com/sw-yx/ai-notes/blob/main/TEXT.md

Beginner Reads

Intermediate Reads

Advanced Reads

We compared 126 keyword modifiers with the same prompt and initial image. These are the results.

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Communities

People

*Unknown to many people, a growing amount of alpha is now outside of Arxiv, sources include but are not limited to: https://github.com/trending, HN, that niche Discord server, anime profile picture anons on X, reddit *- K

This list will be out of date but will get you started. My live list of people to follow is at: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1585430245762441216

Quotes, Reality & Demotivation

Legal, Ethics, and Privacy

Alignment, Safety

regulation

Misc

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