Lots of impressive announcements at the OpenAI DevDay yesterday, but I'm going to focus on the implications for audio Conversational AI developers and actual changes available now in the public API we consume. Overview As expected, many of the announcements were about the public API catching up with

It is very difficult to judge at this stage what the concrete outcomes of the AI Safety Summit will be. Like most industry practitioners, I wasn't invited to be in the room at Bletchley Park, but I did sit through the Closing Plenary Livestream yesterday to see if

I've been talking quite a bit lately about approaches that can be used to provide safe conversational AI interfaces by constraining LLMs agency to act only within limits defined by algorithms. It has started quite a few interesting real world conversations with other people who have been thinking

One of the reasons for the mysterious websocket close code=1006 reason="" error at the server end. Putting this here for search engines to find it in case anyone else hits it... Deployed a new service to a GCP compute node recently. Works perfectly in development, but the

Type any common business question, or even request to generate whole new original documents into ChatGPT and it will give you a linguistically plausible, well structured, and maybe even accurate and useful response. If you haven't played with it, you really should. Give it some questions from outside

Back when I made my first connection to the Internet, it was normal to ask for enough addresses to give a public IP to every computer in the organisation (and then some because they could only be allocated on classful octet boundaries). The organisation I worked for ended up with

Just about the only really good thing that came out of the pandemic for me was habitually going for walks with people to chat and exchange ideas rather than "going for a coffee" or "a beer" in crowded places. This works for me as I do

I hit an awkward problem that I've never hit before, last week. After a weekend at a hackathon with great Wifi, I checked back into my codebase to do a bit more work from the place I was staying and found all my cloud hosts were now rejecting