๐ฐ Greetings from the picturesque city of Prague!
The Oxygen XML team has touched down and we're buzzing with excitement for today's Oxygen XML Users Meetup @xmlprague ! Join us and stay at the forefront of XML innovation!
Jeff Bezos famously only allowed 4 different answers to a question at Amazon:
1. Yes
2. No.
3. A number
4. I don't know, but I'll know it by X
If you're uncomfortable saying option 4, you've got work to do.
It is weird to see how the messiness of cultural knowledge production gets even messier in the age of AI.
This is a great example: a joke from the Far Side that made its way to actual mental health sites to AI taking it seriously.
(Of the LLMs I tested, GPT-4 got the joke)
We are excited to announce the release of version 1.0 for ๐ข๐ ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป - a solution that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to assist technical documentation writers at every step of their content creation journey! ๐ฃ๐
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โณ There is still time for you to be a part of ๐ง๐ข๐๐๐ฌ's #webinar - ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐'๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ข๐ ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป ๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฏ ๐๐๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ฒ!
Join us by registering for free at oxygenxml.com/evs2023-12.htmโฆ
I have been saying prompt engineering is going away & this paper shows why
In a preregistered experiment, GPT4 was better able to solicit user preferences by just asking them questions than users were able to articulate in prompts, with less mental effort arxiv.org/pdf/2310.11589.pdf
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Trying to understand the instructions on my new electric toothbrush, in case you wanted to know what that loud wailing was about.
The drawings - they make no sense. ๐ญ
(I'm totally new to this so I'm clueless. But you'd have thought they'd allow for that.)
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Have you had a chance to read Tom Johnson's piece on the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant? ๐๐
In his blog post, he explains what the add-on can do, how it works, while also providing his thoughts and analysis along the way.
โฌ๏ธ Read it here โฌ๏ธ
idratherbewriting.com/learnaโฆ
We have two new exciting #oxygenxml#webinars for you to join:
โก๏ธ ๐๐๐ป๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ด - AI as a Tool for Technical Content Creation
โก๏ธ ๐๐๐น๐ ๐ฑ - Leveraging the Power of AI and Schematron for Content Verification and Correction
For more details, go here: oxygenxml.com/events_programโฆ
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If you got the time, drop by the Oxygen XML Editor booth and let's have a quick chat so we can share with you the most recent tips and tricks on software documentation.