November 2023

  • Recent Turmoil at OpenAI: A Reflection on Mission, Operations, and Conflicts

    The recent turmoil at OpenAI, marked by the firing of founder Sam Altman by the board, reflects deep-rooted disagreements and challenges within the organization. Altman and the board disagreed on AI development speed, business strategies, and AI risks. Also, Altman’s side projects, like raising funds for an AI chip startup, added to the tension. This…

  • How did I create a custom GPT with function calling

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    Update (11/19/2023): OpenAI recently enforced restrictions of using names which could potentially have trademarks, so I could not use YouTubeGPT for this work any more. The new name of this GPT is TubeSummarizer, and all the functions are the same as YouTubeGPT as described in this article. The Link to TubeSummarizer: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-FfwABJqAY-tubesummarizer Function calling is…

  • The New Era of Affordability in Cognitive Process

    I enjoyed reading Professor Karim Lakhani’s view point from this HBR article. With the help from the “Blog Buddy” GPT I just created, I worked out the following blog. Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani has boldly stated that just as the internet drastically reduced the costs associated with the transmission of information, artificial intelligence…

  • OpenAI’s new Assistants API is mind-blowing

    After today’s OpenAI Dev Day, I tried the new Assistants API, and the results is impressive. I am particularly interested in how it works with its retrieval function, so I decided to test its article generation capability with user’s custom documents. I went to OpenAI’s playground, and it already supports assistant. Nice. On the left…

  • Using AI in Behavior-based Endpoint Security

    Behavior based Endpoint Security is one critical component to implement Zero Trust. However, alerts from endpoint are usually numerous and noisy, considering the complexity of OS, diverse types of applications running on the endpoints, and the inherent dynamic nature of user behaviors. Most time, it is extremely difficult to truly understand what is going on…