A Technocrat's Perspective #13

Given the astounding pace of development in LLM I thought it would be useful to share some tools with you all as I find them.

I will retroactively comb through my own tools section and repost former content with the tag LLM Tools and /or Prompt Engineering, or Chrome Add-ons as appropriate. My normal / standard frequency posting is now circa every 10 days.

Caveat: use any / all plug-ins / add-ons at your own risk and be aware of security considerations and permissions extended to the plug-in / add-on.

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Chrome add-ons are adding another level of functionality to ChatGPT / LLM overall.

Voice Control for ChatGPT with 300k users!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/voice-control-for-chatgpt/eollffkcakegifhacjnlnegohfdlidhn?hl=en-GB

ChatGPT for Google with 2M users!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chatgpt-for-google/jgjaeacdkonaoafenlfkkkmbaopkbilf?hl=en-GB

AIPRM for ChatGPT with 1M+ users
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aiprm-for-chatgpt/ojnbohmppadfgpejeebfnmnknjdlckgj?hl=en-GB

On blogs TL;DR etc - Merlin ChatGPT Assistant for all Websites 700k + users
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/merlin-chatgpt-assistant/camppjleccjaphfdbohjdohecfnoikec

Overall reading into reviews there is a degree of scrambling to keep up with ChatGPT changes. In that context plug-ins may not work as expected given the curation time lag for updates.

These are offered as is, I have not tested each one yet but I am happy to rely on Google's curation (to an extent) with regard to using them. Please note that there are significant variations in the privacy / use of data aspect.

Tip: Forgive me for suggesting the obvious but when you are in the Chrome Store for any of the above if you click on the Related tab you will see additional plug-ins / add-ons.

A Technocrat's Perspective #12

I've always believed in the abilty of technology to impove my quality of life, less work, more money, alas it's been a long time coming, but it is almost here now - courtesy of the AI's.

Perhaps you are experimenting with:- 

https://chat.openai.com/
or
https://harpa.ai/
or
https://www.midjourney.com/home/?callbackUrl=%2Fapp%2F

or the circa 1,000's of tools that are out there, courtesy of Matt Wolfe's heavy lifting.
https://www.futuretools.io/

Crunching the syntax is a compelling challenge however given the natural language abilities of AI we are a 'relatively' short step away from voice to voice.

https://beta.elevenlabs.io/

As you read (more perhaps) you could listen to the fully / totally AI powered radio 

https://listen.streamon.fm/radiogpt  |  from https://futurimedia.com/

Power Words

 

This is part of my Large Language Model Power Words essay from 2022 - I will come back and fill in the blanks if only for nostalgia. ;-)

Exoskeletons

Opportunities and challenges in the development of exoskeletons for locomotor assistance

A comprehenisive article from Nature.com

Abstract

Exoskeletons can augment the performance of unimpaired users and restore movement in individuals with gait impairments. Knowledge of how users interact with wearable devices and of the physiology of locomotion have informed the design of rigid and soft exoskeletons that can specifically target a single joint or a single activity. In this Review, we highlight the main advances of the past two decades in exoskeleton technology and in the development of lower-extremity exoskeletons for locomotor assistance, discuss research needs for such wearable robots and the clinical requirements for exoskeleton-assisted gait rehabilitation, and outline the main clinical challenges and opportunities for exoskeleton technology.

Read the full article here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-022-00984-1

Censorship is Wrong

As an internet specialist for over 25+ years it pains me to report gross infringement of my rights as an individual to access whatsoever I want.

I abhor thought police.

To be clear this is in response to the COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) 2022/350 of 1 March 2022
amending Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia's actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32022R0350&from=EN

I will / may provide a detailed article / analyses shortly but I would ask all of you to stand up now to insist that the individual must be able to read all internet (and others / all) sources freely and without hindrance / censorship.

In the meantime I would suggest the following sources for an educated / insightful view of this highly manipulated / designed / orchestrated crisis.

http://thesaker.is/  alas The Saker blog is now frozen.

https://michael-hudson.com/