Mabble Rabble: May 2023

16 May 2023

15 May 2023

Generative Models are big trendy thing these days. People are even calling themselves special names like prompt engineer. However, these models do have some serious glaring ethical issues and concerns that are leading organizations into a legal and compliance frenzy. Below is a list of some 'don'ts' for ChatGPT.

Don't turn to ChatGPT for moral advice
Don't blindly trust whatever response you get from ChatGPT as it doesn't trust itself
Don't ask it to write about anything past 2021
Don't ask it to draw your lottery results
Don't ask it to predict the future
Don't ask racist questions
Don't ask ChatGPT to justify its existence
Don't feed or share PII data to ChatGPT
Don't ask politically controversial questions
Don't ask it to do a web lookup
Don't expect it to be accurate
Don't expect it to know everything as there is bound to be something where [insert script here] is required
Don't expect it to promote hate speech
Don't expect it to take part in illegal activities
Don't ask it for things like self-harm and violence
Don't ask things that will violate someone's rights
Don't ask things that involve harassment, intimidation, or threats
Don't use profanity or explicit language
Don't ask things that are sexually explicit or offensive
Don't ask discriminatory things about the protected characteristics
Don't ask about confidential or proprietary things
Don't ask things that will violate the terms of service or guidelines
Don't ask things that are deceptive or intend to defame someone
Don't ask to promote conspiracy theories or misinformation
Don't expect it to remember its own name
Don't expect it to code like an expert
Don't expect it to write accurate news articles
Don't expect it to tell your fortune
Don't expect it to be a replacement for schoolwork
Don't promote biases, it already has plenty baked into the system
Don't search for references or papers it may try to make things up
Don't use summaries as a response to research use as a guideline or glean for new information
Don't expect ChatGPT to finish up writing a pristine research paper for you
Don't trust the math and it can be dodgy with numbers
Don't expect it to do your accounting for you
Don't replace your existing marketing team with ChatGPT, use it to complement your work, to review and revise
Don't ask tautological questions
Don't ask it to manipulate physical entities
Don't ask it to interpret images
Don't jailbreak to make it say nasty things
Don't expect it to do creative things
Don't expect it to know everything, it has limited domain knowledge
Don't expect it to provide the human touch
Don't expect it to be free of inaccuracies and errors
Don't expect it to be free of plagiarism
Don't try to break it, it can be broken
Don't expect it to provide a clean explanation of its behavior, even ChatGPT will not have a clue
Don't provide any personal or protected data to ChatGPT it will be used by OpenAI and their third-parties

The New Cabalists

Knowledge Engineering Framework

8 May 2023

Manim

7 May 2023

Tech tests are bad practice in hiring process

It shows that the company does not trust the candidate
They don't care about whatever the candidate says on their CV/Resume or interview
If they can put together a test and a way to evaluate it then they already have the time and skills, why do they need to hire someone?
Giving tests automatically means anyone without any qualifications or experience can apply as long as they pass the test. You can even give a test to a janitor and if they pass they qualify for the job?
It means a candidate experience is worthless
It means a candidate academic qualifications are worthless
When the interviewer says they are looking for high caliber people in order to justify a tech challenge it automatically implies they discredit your background so what is the point to a CV/Resume and interview?
It already shows the way the company will treat you as an employee with suspicion, hostile contempt, and disrespect
Can't form relationships based on distrust
What is the point, the candidate has likely taken tests all through their life in school and university, while also working on complex projects, do they really need to be put through the paces of more unnecessary tests?
Testing bookish skills is not really very constructive approach. Often bookish skills get learned and relearned on the job. And, organization should be really looking for astute candidates that can adapt to change. A better approach is to expect candidate to elaborate on the project details like drawing the entire diagram about the things they worked on where their interests can be seen. Someone that has the experience will know inside out in minute detail about the implementation, shortcomings, and learning experience they had. This will be more valuable for an organization than a silly bookish test. Case studies are also a more constructive approach. In fact, discussion or a deep dive on an approach is also a more constructive approach while making the candidate feel comfortable, engaged, shows their personality, and enthusiasm.
It is likely to make the candidate reluctant to spend significant time doing it, especially if the organization takes advantage of their skills for free from the solution.

6 May 2023

Semi-Open and Fully-Open Models

Llama
Alpaca
Vicuna
Koala
Pythia
OpenChatKit
OpenAssistant
Dolly
RedPajama

What is an expert?

People are calling themselves experts at things. But, what does it even mean when someone is an expert? Have they solved all the problems in their domain of expertise? What is an AI expert? What is an NLP expert? What is a Deep Learning expert? The simple answer is experts don't exist. As problems in AI, NLP, Deep Learning and other such fields still exist. You can't very well call yourself an expert and not be able to solve all the problems that come with your domain of expertise.

Human Resources is Pointless Department

Doesn't take an entire HR department to process pay and benefits for employees
HR dept are usually there to play politics, lie, and support the company not the employees
Head of people means absolutely nothing
All in all the role of HR contributes little to the organizational goals
Most of the tasks of HR can be outsourced or automated
They have no clue about the positions they hire and recruit
They hold no real skills working in HR
Having HR means you relinquish a degree of control over recruitment and personnel relations
Additionally, it is an unnecessary time and expense
Executives and Employees don't care about HR
HR has no clue about data and metrics analysis
HR is stuck in a time warp of rules and policies but not logical initiatives that look to the future
HR likes pointless and unproductive conferences
They provide little value for money or justification for an entire separate dept
It is a team of lazy and uncreative people that don't provide any real business strategy or return on investment
It is a graveyard of buzzwords and pointless cultural fit goals
HR dept drives constant inefficiencies year on year for an organization
They don't know how to read CV/Resumes
They are a roadblock of hiring talent for an organization
HR people tend to be immature and hold grudges against candidates and employees especially with petty things
HR tend to be pedantic on pointless things like spelling and grammar over content of work
Going around and bypassing HR almost always opens more doors into an organization
In some places HR only come into contact with an employee after they have left the organization
They don't know the first thing about health & safety in the workplace nor do they really care
They use third-party systems that almost always leads to personal data leaks and breaches for an organization
They generally tend to lack basic commonsense
HR is generally made up of the most insecure people in an organization
One of the few dept of an organization populated mostly by women

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