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Understanding the limitations of natural language

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Hello, this is The Secret Handshake, a free resource for those wanting to understand generative AI better, and embed it into their work. If someone shared this issue with you, welcome! Please sign up to get this in your inbox every month. Pledge your support Here’s something that’s harder to understand than generative AI right now: the corporate drama at OpenAI. Just so you know, this newsletter is not where you can read about that. There are plenty of other publications out there that are having a nice time speculating about the board’s decision — The Secret Handshake will always just be about potential applications of the technology itself. Often people ask me how they might set up a quantitative backend database for their company, and then query it with natural language to get insights. Then, they kind of refuse to believe me when I tell them that right now, this isn’t really possible. When I have these conversations, people come back to me with “okay but what about Code Interpreter

Hello, this is The Secret Handshake, a free resource for those wanting to understand generative AI better, and embed it into their work. If someone shared this issue with you, welcome! Please sign up to get this in your inbox every month. Here’s something that’s harder to understand than generative AI right now: the corporate drama at OpenAI. Just so you know, this newsletter is not where you can read about that. There are plenty of other publications out there that are having a nice time speculating about the board’s decision — The Secret Handshake will always just be about potential…

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