I believe in the power of open collaboration to create digital commons. My promise to you is I explore the leverage points that create change in complex systems keeping the humans in those systems at the forefront with empathy and humor.
Untangling Systems: Using Models Together ChatGPT and Earth Index
Using Models Together ChatGPT Atlas and Earth IndexA lot of my experimentation lately is using common AI tools in different ways. I decided to see what would happen if I tried using ChatGPT with geospatial models. And I just did a simple experiment where I was working to create labels in Earth Index and using ChatGPT's browser Atlas as my partner in that. I'm sharing with you part one, which is not the more successful part of doing this. ChatGPT has difficulty using the map and it would have been much faster for me to do it by myself. I also tried this workflow 4 different times and with different types of features dairy farms, green houses and mining. The first time I did it was the most successful, but it was also the time I wasn't recording. Part two, I'll show you how we review the predictions. It worked quite a bit better for that, I could see how the LLM might actually be helpful in a custom application. I also observed some other difficulties. Earth Index has some unique aspects to its interface that aren't as common as some of the more traditional Slippy map implementations. It made me wonder if it would be harder with an LLM browser to use non-traditional interfaces. Because it definitely gets caught up a little here. Here are the results in video form. And surprise, I have a YouTube channel now too! -Kate |
Untangling Systems
I believe in the power of open collaboration to create digital commons. My promise to you is I explore the leverage points that create change in complex systems keeping the humans in those systems at the forefront with empathy and humor.
Why Are You Making the Thing You’re Making? When I first started mapping in OpenStreetMap, I walked every trail in my neighborhood. I’d walk trails that were already perfectly visible from satellite imagery. I didn’t need to do it, I could hand digitize if I wanted. But I was mapping those trails as a one person protest. You see the neighborhood next door had all the same resources but big “no trespassing” signs for non-residents. I coined the act “spite mapping” and the act of trespassing to...
A Tangled Cetacean and AI Safety Theater Note: This is a heavy topic involving the death of stranded whales. Over the weekend a young humpback whale was stranded on a beach in Oregon. They were tangled in rope from crabbing equipment. People came from all over the area to help, posting that they had extra wet suits, lights, and other tools, as well as volunteering to be in the cold ocean overnight. A dangerous situation, and yet they were all coming together for this creature. I was riveted...
Introducing the Promptatorium I’ve been following the work of some folks who are using LLMs more efficiently than I am. One of the key skills seems to be orchestrating a series of agents working together. I've had a little success with doing this in while coding, but not to the extent that I have observed others. I was looking for another way to explore more deeply. I’ve always been interested in simulating biological systems, so instead of trying to figure out how to orchestrate a bunch of...