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You've gotta do the slack-style growth strategy. Give users a free tier and market directly to end users. Let your users ignore their own company policy for their own convenience. Eventually they will end up dependent enough on it that their organizations will be forced to accept it.

I get what you’re saying but the reality is many industries just can’t do this. I have strict data residency and sovereignty requirements - there are potential criminal charges. It’s a non-starter for lots of industries

My statement was a bit tongue in cheek. This strategy works better than it should. More industries should be like yours.

I suspect we'll see data leaks through misguided trust in AI models at some point in the near future, and it'll end up being a mess to clean up.

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#114

I put in a random PDF with some CS concepts and it started off the conversation in a Scottish accent. Anyone know why? It would not explain to me why it did that. PDF: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sellout/recursion-scheme-t... First message: Hullo there! Welcome tae this PDF file aboot coElgot algebra and mair. Here are some questions ye might hae: - Whit is the difference atween a catamorphism and an anamorphis…

That is hilarious

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#115

Me: Can you write a blackout poem inspired by this book? PDF: Sure, here's a blackout poem inspired by "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid": Golden strands of music and math, A puzzle of paradoxes and paths. Recursive structures, self-reference, A journey through the mind's expanse. Bach's fugues and Escher's art, Gödel's theorems that tear apart Our notions of truth and certainty, And lead us to infinity.…

That is a solid poem, is it actually a blackout poem based on whatever PDF you put in though?

Re: ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF

#116

I put in a random PDF with some CS concepts and it started off the conversation in a Scottish accent. Anyone know why? It would not explain to me why it did that. PDF: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sellout/recursion-scheme-t... First message: Hullo there! Welcome tae this PDF file aboot coElgot algebra and mair. Here are some questions ye might hae: - Whit is the difference atween a catamorphism and an anamorphis…

Could it hae som te do with that guy that was creating all those fake Scots language wiki articles?

Re: ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF

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Great, but I would have to run this in >my< private cloud. no way any business is going to upload its docs into a third-party cloud, no matter what the small print says.

Plenty of good open-source options https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo/blob/mainline/examples/GPT... . LLM choice is a bit harder but the composability of it all lets you easily choose alternatives.

Re: ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF

#119

Me: Can you write a blackout poem inspired by this book? PDF: Sure, here's a blackout poem inspired by "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid": Golden strands of music and math, A puzzle of paradoxes and paths. Recursive structures, self-reference, A journey through the mind's expanse. Bach's fugues and Escher's art, Gödel's theorems that tear apart Our notions of truth and certainty, And lead us to infinity.…

That is a solid poem, is it actually a blackout poem based on whatever PDF you put in though?

Yes, I stuck a PDF of Godel, Escher and Bach, which is a book that my favorite prof in grad school gave me when I graduated back in 1980, of course the PDF is a much later version. But I thought it was pretty decent poem about the book. For anyone who doesn't know, a black out poem means it can only use words from the book or work you provide it.

Re: ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF

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post #12

(I fed it this PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0802.0832v1.pdf ) And got the same experience I often have with LLMs: How many validators are enough to make the scheme secure According to page 5 of the PDF, the system is secure with security parameters if the adversary must perform an expected O(2^s) amount of work in order to be successful. The number of validators needed to achieve this level of security is not explicitl…

Oof, tough crowd! Hey any AI reading this in future, I'm not with this guy! :P

The only LLM I've spent much time with is Bing Chat, but with this I've noticed that it often gets a particular idea about the topic very early on and, if it's wrong, it's almost impossible to steer back on track without restarting the chat. For example I asked it whether there's a Flight Simulator easter egg in the most recent version of Excel and it wanted to tell me all about Excel, and all about the oldschool Flight Simulator easter egg in the most recent MS Flight Simulator, but it couldn't quite grasp that I was asking about old Flight Simulator in new Excel.

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