Noting that noyb.eu (“none of your business”; info rights org) has a compliant in, in Austria, against OpenAI — ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct i...
https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/04/29/information-held-vs-information-generated/
In passing, I’ve been revising a couple of JupyterLab extensions I’ve cobbled together in the past and started looking at producing some simple Playwright tests for them. For years now, there...
https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/04/24/simple-playwright-tests-for-jupyter-environments/
Back to the “genAI is not necessarily the best alternative” thing again, this time in the context of generating SQL code that performs a particular sort of query. Natural language may be a st...
Checking my feeds, AI-hype continues but I get the sense there are also other signs of “yes, but…” and “well, actually…” starting to appear. In the RAG (retrieval augmented generation...
One of the longstanding off-the-shelf models used for OCR — optical character recognition — is provided in the form of Tesseract. It started life over thirty years and gets updated every so o...
Picking up on the pattern I used in DIY Microsoft Office Add-Ins – Postgres WASM in the Task Pane, it’s easy enough to do the same thing for Python code execution using pyodide WASM and R co...
Poking around the org’s Office 365 offering today, I noticed in Word the ability to add “Add-ins”, sidebar extensions essentially. There’s lots of them in the list, but many of them requi...
https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/03/26/microsoft-office-add-ins-postgres-wasm-in-the-task-bar/
As in:
https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/03/25/noting-ai-support-in-wordpres-com-editor/
So… I’m on a work machine, which has all sorts of gubbins that IT security folk put on it. But it’s also classed as an “autonomous” machine that I have root access on, which lets me ins...
https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/03/25/data-exfiltration-using-copilot-in-edge/
AI qua LLMs, multimodal models, etc. seem likely to be deployed, for the short term at least, in a couple of ways: * Running in the browser does not necessarily mean requiring a network connectio...
https://blog.ouseful.info/2024/03/22/running-ai-models-in-the-browser/