Matthew McAteer

Matthew McAteer

Biologist-turned-ML-Engineer in San Francisco. I blog about machine learning, biotech, distributed systems, dogs, and more.

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Is LaMDA Sentient/Sapient/Conscious?

Neurology

It all depends on your definition(s) of sentience, sapience, and consciousness

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Mimicking DeepMind's Chinchilla with GPT-3

Machine Learning

Short piece on using GPT-3 to reconstruct behaviors of one of DeepMind's new models

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Black Swan events and the new Cold War

Survivalism

Deterrence ladders, contingency plans, RAND corporation documents, and personally grappling the now much more real threat of nuclear annihilation.

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Handy GPT-3 Prompts

Productivity

Or, best tips for offloading your creative work and social media presence to your AI replacement.

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Until Next Time

Writing

A brief (on a cosmic scale) hiatus, to focus on writing a new book.

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CLIP Prompt Engineering for Generative Art

Generative Art

A CLIP primer with 3500+ prompt output examples.

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Messing with GPT-Neo

Machine Learning

How a reproduction of GPT-3 compares to the original, and how to use it.

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