Super Prompt: Generative AI
Examining generative AI—not to hype breakthroughs or warn of apocalypse, but to understand how things actually work. Mental models over hot takes. Technology specifics over marketing fog.
Welcome to Super Prompt. Hosted by Tony Wan, ex-Silicon Valley insider.
For The Independents—people who think for themselves, refuse narrative capture, and value depth over certainty.
Weekly. Unsponsored. Independent analysis.
The future belongs to better questions.
Episodes
28 episodes
Power and Responsibility of Large Language Models
With great power comes great responsibility. How do Open AI, Anthropic, and Meta implement safety and ethics? As large language models (LLMs) get larger, the potential for using them for nefarious purposes looms larger as well. Anthropic uses C...
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Episode 27
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16:38
Open Source Part 2: How Open is Open?
So what are notable Open Source Large Language models? In this episode, I cover Open Source models from Meta the parent company of Facebook, a French AI company called Mistral currently valued at $2B dollars, in addition to Microsoft and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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13:28
Open Source Part 1: What's More Dangerous: Open or Closed?
Why should you consider using an open source Large Language Model, and why are these models crucial to the generative AI ecosystem? In this episode, we'll explore why enterprises and entrepreneurs are turning to open source LLMs like Meta's Lla...
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Episode 25
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16:29
Anthropic's Claude & Benchmarking LLMs
In this solo episode, we go beyond Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT to take a look at Anthropic, a startup that made headlines after securing a $4 billion investment from Amazon. We'll also dive into the importance of AI industry benc...
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Episode 24
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10:35
What is Multimodal AI?
The recent spring updates and demos by both Google (Gemini) and OpenAI (GPT-4o) feature prominently their multimodal capabilities. In this episode, we discuss the advantages of multimodal AI versus models focused on specific modalit...
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Episode 23
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10:00
Google Gemini Announcement
Google recently announced, Gemini, a family of large-scale multimodal AI models: Nano, Pro, and Ultra. This podcast is a brief summary of Google's models, and the Open AI comparables e.g. GPT3, GPT4, and chatGPT. You can...
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Episode 22
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7:11
7 Takeaways about GPT Builder
How I built a travel planning AI named Holiday using the GPT Builder just launched by Open AI. I share 7 takeaways from my "no code" experience of building a GPT. Voicing the part of Holiday: my friend, Leslie Marrick, a writer and actress. Thi...
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Episode 21
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25:56
Jeff DeVerter, Chief Technology Evangelist at Rackspace Technology
Conversation with Jeff DeVerter, Chief Technology Evangelist at Rackspace, a cloud computing company. We explore how they deployed a LLM (Google PaLM) for a sales application, and how they're enabling their Azure and AWS customers too.
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Episode 20
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57:35
Alfred Guy, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Yale College
Alfred Guy, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Yale College, and Director of Undergraduate Writing & Tutoring at the Poorvu Center and I discuss Yale's AI Guidance, and generative AI’s impact on teaching, learning, and evaluation. ...
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Episode 19
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1:34:11
Can AI Write an Epic Sci-Fi Blockbuster?
We create a pitch for an epic Sci-Fi blockbuster, using chatGPT power prompts of Role Play, Chain of Thought, and Self Critique. We see how these successive prompts used individually and in combination create a better and better pit...
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Episode 18
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33:09
ChatGPT’s Top Five Ethical Concerns
“Does chatGPT possess human-like intelligence?” It turns out there's a right answer, and that answer is “NO”! Does this definite answer seem out of character for chatGPT which usually goes overboard with fair and balanced views? It ...
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Episode 17
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19:31
Does ChatGPT Understand Humor?
Does chatGPT have a sense of humor? What if after Microsoft's acquisition of Open AI, the Onion ran the headline, “Microsoft renames chatGPT to clippyChat”? Would chatGPT find this funny? TL;DR LLMs are better at analyzing humor than creating i...
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Episode 16
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15:55
Grandma Hacking chatGPT
How do you extract prohibited information from ChatGPT? What are Grandma and DAN exploits? Why do they work? What can Large Language Model (LLM) companies do to protect themselves? Grandma exploits or hacks are ways to trick chatGPT into ...
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Episode 15
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23:44
AI Hallucinations: Bug or Feature?
What are AI hallucinations, and are they a feature or a bug? We start with the Top 10 categories of AI Hallucinations and examples, then explore how chatGPT might hallucinate an answer to the question, "What is the central theme of Blade Runner...
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Episode 14
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23:07
AI Cheatsheet #3 | How is AI trained?
Using the prompt, "Why isn't Superman's suit Kryptonite-proof?", we learn how Large Language Models are trained, why "self-attention" and the "transformer" architecture (which is what the T in GPT stands for) makes GPT-3 so powerful, the ...
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Episode 13
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18:56
AI Cheatsheet #2 | What is a LLM?
"How do ChatGPT, GPT-3, and Large Language Models (LLMs) relate?" That is the question we explore this episode viaNursery rhymeA satirical Friend's episode w/ Chandler, Joey, Ross, and MonicaFairy Tale...
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Episode 12
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22:17
AI Cheatsheet #1 | What is chatGPT?
In these solo episodes, I provide more definition, explanation, and context than my regular episodes. The idea is to help those new to AI get more out of my conversations with guests.Format: Letters read aloud. I start...
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Episode 11
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25:21
Scientist, Entrepreneur, Scholar, Arijit Ray
I speak with scientist entrepreneur, Arijit Ray. Arijit is a PHD candidate at Boston University. We speak about generative AI, why it’s so hard to get DALL-E to create the exact pizza we envision, how one goes from scientist to entreprene...
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Episode 10
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51:43
CTO Mario Arancibia | Do You Sound Sick? AI Knows.
I speak with CTO and Chilean entrepreneur Mario Arancibia, about AI his company has developed and deployed which screens for diseases, such as Covid-19 based on the sound of our voice. Speaking a simple phrase into your phone, such as the days ...
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Episode 9
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1:01:56
Faking a $450M Painting
AI that can assess if a painting is fake. Husband-and-wife team, Steven and Andrea Frank, have developed a neural network that can assess the probability that a painting was painted by the supposed creator. They ran their neural network on a ne...
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Episode 8
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24:08
"Alpha Go" AI Beats World Champion
"Alpha Go" AI plays the game of GO against a human world champion. Unexpected moves by both man (9-dan Go champion Lee Sedol) and machine (Alpha Go). Supposedly, this televised Go match woke up China's leadership to the potential of AI. I...
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Episode 7
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44:51
Self-Driving Cars Part 3
A 100% digital version of the world's driving environment is being created AKA The Metaverse. Think an immersive virtual reality environment like Grand Theft Auto with less destruction, profanity, and mayhem. The goal? Have a self-driving AI no...
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Episode 6
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26:02
Self-Driving Cars Part 2
I speak again with my friend Maroof Farook who is an AI Engineer at Nvidia. [Note: Maroof’s views are his and not that of his employer.] This is a continuation of our previous conversation about self-driving cars. We discuss AI challenges...
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Episode 5
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30:18
Self-Driving Cars Part 1
I speak with my friend Maroof Farook who is an AI Engineer at Nvidia. [Note: Maroof’s views are his and not that of his employer.] We discuss what’s different about the self-driving approaches of Tesla and Alphabet/Google/Waymo. We cover the ph...
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Episode 4
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35:16
Fooling Big Brother's Facial Recognition
I speak again with my friend, Maroof Farooq, an AI engineer at Nvidia. [Note: Maroof's views are his and not that of his employer.] We discuss facial recognition, how it can be used for surveillance, and techniques for defeating or foolin...
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Episode 3
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35:04