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Steering at the Frontier: Extending the Power of Prompting

December 12, 2023 | Eric Horvitz, Harsha Nori, and Yin Tat Lee
We’re seeing exciting capabilities of frontier foundation models, including intriguing powers of abstraction, generalization, and composition across numerous areas of knowledge and expertise. Even seasoned AI researchers have been impressed with the ability to steer the models with straightforward, zero-shot prompts. Beyond basic, out-of-the-box prompting, we’ve been…
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    Steering at the Frontier: Extending the Power of Prompting 

    December 12, 2023 | Eric Horvitz, Harsha Nori, and Yin Tat Lee

    We’re seeing exciting capabilities of frontier foundation models, including intriguing powers of abstraction, generalization, and composition across numerous areas of knowledge and expertise. Even seasoned AI researchers have been impressed with the ability to steer the models with straightforward, zero-shot prompts. Beyond basic, out-of-the-box prompting, we’ve been…

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    The Power of Prompting 

    November 28, 2023 | Eric Horvitz

    Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horvitz explains how new prompting strategies can enable generalist large language models like GPT-4 to achieve exceptional expertise in specific domains, such as medicine, and outperform fine-tuned specialist models.

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