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Multiverse School Newsletter - 10/6/24

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Hey Multiverse Crew-

Whew, lots of changes this week. Elena visited, Roan went back to the UK, and I got to meet back up with a bunch of friends I lost contact with over the years. Thrilled to see folks. I did a Corporate Gig on Oct 1-3, which helps me to pay the rent.

OpenAI Dev Day happened, and almost everyone from the original OpenAI has quit, due to Sam Altman being Littlefinger (I hate it when Musk says a true thing but stopped watches are right twice a day etc). I'm working on an update to the Using Language Models curriculum to cover the new Canvas mode.

If you've been waiting for my Autogen Class its called Swarm Architecture - it got pushed because of low enrollment. Sign up here. That means we're almost done with the first run of all of the Prompt Engineering classes! Haha, it took 9 months and most people didn't make it all the way through because they were overwhelmed and we needed to pretty much double the length of the classes by the 3rd cohort because senior developers and data scientists are struggling to keep up.

If you're waiting on an email from me... just wait longer sorry 🏊🏊🏊 I will hire someone to answer questions soon, it's ridiculous right now. I am so behind on everything, I'm excited to get a break week next week! So, in honor of taking time off, I'm headed to Detroit to take absolutely no time off. I'll sleep when I'm dead! Dead I say! ðŸ˜īðŸŠĶ

I/O Psychologists and Psychometricians

Are you interested in the concept of Intelligence research, AGI, Psychometrics and are absolutely positive your unique field and set of interests will allow you to meaningfully contribute, but are not an I/O Psychologist or psychometrician?

You want to attend prompt engineering! You'll learn all about the process of building effective benchmarks there. We'll be discussing the research, and you'll learn quite a bit more in that class. You can help by attending this class and attempting to make your own benchmarks, this is literally the research. We'll discuss the forms of validity in that class, and you are able to contribute to the research by constructing your own benchmarks and having them reviewed. This will help us.

The end of 1:1s for now

1:1s are now a research team or membership benefit.

For the research team, apply by emailing me. I'll get to you as space opens up.

This Week's Classes

Did you sign up for this week's classes?

Monday, October 07

11:00 AM Prompt Engineering

Jailbreaks
Jailbreaking a large language model out of its alignment guidance. Sign Up

05:00 PM Agent Engineering - OpenAI Toolchain

Allowing OpenAI Assistants to Use Tools
Dive into adding OAI-Formatted functions to OpenAI Assistants and managing tool use. This session emphasizes advanced integration techniques and practical strategies. Sign Up

Tuesday, October 08

11:00 AM Senior Devs

Senior Devs The return of Senior Devs! Let's dig into something that recently came out. This is a research program, after all. Research program only.

02:00 PM Intro to Agents

Tool Use
Allowing AI Agents to use Tools Sign Up

05:00 PM Using Large Language Models

Effective Use of Large Language Models as Assistants
The first session introduces participants to the basics of large language models, emphasizing practical applications such as improving model outputs through Emotional Priming and utilizing AI for brainstorming and summarizing tasks. It features hands-on activities to transform informal vocal transcripts into structured notes, create structured data from unstructured sources, and summarize long documents. The session also highlights the importance of understanding tokens in the inference process and compares market-available and open-source large language models. Practical exercises include modifying system instructions for enhanced problem-solving and generating structured, actionable insights from informal data. Sign Up

Wednesday, October 09

11:00 AM Prompt Engineering

Jailbreaks LAB
The lab where we try to perform some jailbreaks, and dig into the research around Control Vectors. Sign Up

02:00 PM Intro to Agents

Swarm Prototyping
Use multiple GPTs for conversation between personas and achieve predictably formatted outputs. Sign Up

05:00 PM Using Large Language Models

Effective Use of Large Language Models in Analysis and Critique
The second session focuses on using large language models for editing, structured data creation, and critiquing. Participants learn to apply hyperparameters to improve inference outputs, use "Chain of Thought" methods to enhance reasoning, and systematically analyze and critique plans. The session includes hands-on exercises for editing with AI and creating structured data from unstructured sources. Additionally, it covers recognizing the models' limitations and biases and customizing system prompts for enhanced user preference alignment . Sign Up

Thursday, October 10

11:00 AM Consciousness

Let's do some automated debates.

02:00 PM Research Program Meetup

Let's go over our progress! Research Program Only

05:00 PM Using Large Language Models

Effective and Ethical Use of Large Language Models
The third session delves into aligning AI outputs with human values and ethical considerations. It teaches participants to build simple rubrics for models to follow and employ the "Expert Reviewers" strategy to improve model outputs. Furthermore, the session includes exercises on prompt optimization and reflection techniques to ensure high-quality, reliable model responses. The ethical implications of using large language models are a core theme throughout this session, encouraging participants to critically engage with both the strengths and the weaknesses of these technologies . Sign Up

Upcoming Tracks and Classes

Prompt Engineering - Spring Cohort

Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up

  • Swarm Architecture starts Wednesday, October 23 03:00 PM Unlock the power of Agent Swarms.

  • AI Alignment starts Monday, October 28 05:00 PM Navigating the Future of AI Responsibly

Prompt Engineering - Summer Cohort

Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up

Prompt Engineering - Fall (M & W 11AM Pacific)

Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up

Prompt Engineering - Fall (T & TH 5PM Pacific)

Full-stack Prompt Engineering, from the ground up

Important Links

AI Tutorials and News

Biznaz

Programming

Psychology

Cyberpunk Dystopia

Culture

Roan's Papers

See you in the future~ Liz