Is GenAI Still Guessing?

Author

Anshuman Pandey
November 01, 2024

Every day, individuals and enterprises around the world are discovering new ways to use GenAI. Here’s one I found extraordinarily simple yet quite ingenious.

Echo prompting: Double-check your inputs to GenAI

Echo prompting - some people call it parroting - is a form of prompt engineering where you ask the GenAI tool to repeat/rephrase your question.

“On average, EchoPrompt improves the Zero-shot-CoT performance of code-davinci-002 by 5% in numerical tasks and 13% in reading comprehension tasks,” find researchers.

Why don’t you try it yourself? At the end of your prompt to ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Tune Chat add, “rephrase the question before you answer.” Tell me how that goes!

Responsible AI: Governance and other matters

In a recent article, experts at the World Economic Forum (WEF) point out an interesting idea. They say, “if Steve Jobs considered the personal computer the bicycle for the mind, then AI…becomes the rocket ship for it.”

So, the question is: How do we build a safe and reliable rocketship for our magical journeys?

Governance specialists at Tune AI created a framework to answer exactly that question. In this article, we cover the what, when, and why of GenAI governance for enterprises.

WEF lays out the starting point:

1. Use AI for enhancing information awareness: Create an orchestration layer that enables better knowledge visibility in your organization

2. Tag content that’s not GenAI: Create a repository of proprietary content that is attributable, trustworthy and verifiable

3. Grow usage while maintaining control: Create visibility around the control you have over content and AI—and use output accordingly

Sustainability: What about GenAI e-waste?

Though not currently a boiling issue, the waste created by GenAI will soon be, given GenAI could generate millions of tons of e-waste by the end of this decade.

Especially given the shrinking shelf life of the digital infrastructure, servers, and data center equipment that runs GenAI apps, waste is expected to mount.

This raises pivotal questions about environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. There’s nothing we need to do yet, but it’s only a matter of time. So, ESG teams across enterprises better get adding GenAI to their agendas.

Big picture: Is AI bad?

This week’s First Dog on the Moon Cartoon on Guardian is captivating, even if laced with cynical melancholy.

Here’s the link to the full comic. I’ll leave you to think about it.

Write to you next week with a capsule of everything happening in the world of GenAI that would be meaningful to enterprise leaders just like you.

Best,
Anshuman Pandey

P.S. Llama 3.2 Vision Language model is now available on Tune Chat