{"id":794,"date":"2024-04-12T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T22:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/rstephens\/?p=794"},"modified":"2024-04-15T08:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T14:52:14","slug":"monkigras-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/rstephens\/2024\/04\/12\/monkigras-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Monki Gras Recap, Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re recapping the talks presented at the 2024 Monki Gras. Below is a summary of the talks from the final day of the conference. A summary of the talks from the first day is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Stochastic Children by Dormain Drewitz and Rachel Stephens<\/h2>\n

Drewitz and Stephens (oh hai!) explored the overlap between effectively prompting as parents and prompting an LLM. Can we think like parents in how we approach our interactions with LLMs, and can LLMs show us anything about being better parents?<\/p>\n

We explored the ways we get our children to do things and whether it translates to LLMs. We also highlighted the tradeoffs that come from spending the time (sometimes years!) to train the model\/child with necessary context so your prompts can be brief and one-shot, as compared to providing in-depth instructions in the moment.<\/p>\n

Also: the power of sticker charts!<\/p>\n

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A week\u2019s work in 6 hours \u2013 how LLMs will revolutionise the study of humanities by Ian Miell<\/h2>\n

Miell used LLMs to rewrite one of his essays from university without referencing the original essay and without re-reading the texts. The prompt was \u2018How was new Liberalism different from the old Liberalism?\u2019<\/p>\n

Miell spoke about the power and limitations of LLMs. While there were definitely limitations in the LLMs ability to do deeper thinking, it was an excellent tool reducer and learning accelerator. It can\u2019t write a decent university-level history essay yet, but it shone at helping plan the essay writing.<\/p>\n

He also included such insightful references to Douglas Adams and Garry Kasparov.<\/p>\n

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Miell\u2019s slides are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cake: an open source tale by Julia Ferraioli<\/h2>\n

Ferraioli shared the primary tenants of open source:<\/p>\n