
GPTs: What are they good for?
It's easy to make a custom chat bot, but the killer app is elusive.
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It's easy to make a custom chat bot, but the killer app is elusive.
Or, what I've been up to all year.

Instruction tuning is the future, but the delay in launching RLHF via PPO suggests it is finicky in practice. Practitioners will likely need to stick to instruction tuning for the time being.

An invitation to guide the future of this newsletter

…and it will look a lot like AGI. LLMs can become extremely powerful by leveraging external cognitive assets and choosing actions.

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