Twitter publishes (some of) its recommendation algorithm, Toran Bruce Richards puts GPT-4 on autopilot, Simon Willison shares a good way for us to think about LLMs, Eric Elliot creates a powerful pseudocode programming language for LLMs &amp; I define and demystify the term “stochastic parrot”.

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Show Notes:
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<li><a href="https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm">Twitter’s algorithm</a>
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1642604461016113160">Rowan Cheung</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/Torantulino/Auto-GPT">Auto-GPT</a></li>
<li><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/2/calculator-for-words/">Think of an LLM as a “calculator for words”</a></li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/javascript-scene/sudolang-a-powerful-pseudocode-programming-language-for-llms-d64d42aa719b">A Powerful Pseudocode Programming Language for LLMs</a>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/paralleldrive/sudolang-llm-support/blob/main/sudolang.sudo.md">Spec</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-stochastic-parrot">What is a stochastic parrot?</a>
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<li><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922">On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?</a></li>
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