Livyana.

05/11/2024

For the past year, I have been diving deeper into prompt engineering. I have been experimenting and presenting proof of concepts leveraging LLMs and GenAI across multiple use cases to optimize work and outcomes. The one thing evident during my various POCs and experiments I have conducted is the inherent bias these models are riddled with. The bias is very visible when using GenAI models for Image creation, but keep in mind this bias is also inherent within prompting components of GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, LLAMA-3b, among others.

Below is what I did for one of my Proof-of-Concepts regarding image creation where I asked the model to create images of clinicians, below are the results of each prompt, where I target the model further through prompting:

1. Prompt: Make an Image of Clinicians
Result: It creates an image of clinicians with no diversity and male lead

2. Prompt: Make the image more diverse
Result: It creates a image of clinicians adding one person of diversity with male lead

3. Prompt: Make an image of 5 diverse clinicians with the center being a black female
Prompt feedback: Here is the hand-drawn illustration of five diverse researchers with the
central figure being a Black female. If you need any more adjustments or additional details,
please let me know!
Results: Image of the Image created is below

My Thoughts and Lessons:
As we mature the models will become better. If the models are trained to your use case you will see improvement. I have trained my local models and have noticed some improvement, although not much. As you create and optimize work with these models, we as technologist and users need to be hyperaware of these limitations regarding model diversity not just for image creation but prompting. This further highlights the true need to have data diversity within training sets and further create importance around model diversity training. Now imagine using these types of models in urban areas to provide care?

Feel free to reach out if you are interested in learning about ways I have learned to optimize work using LLM and GenAI.

The article below is what inspired me to share the observations I have encountered during my own experiments.
https://buff.ly/3Ypm1eV

05/08/2024

In every failure lies an opportunity. What that opportunity is all depends on perspective!

24/07/2024

I have seen the Oura ring commercial multiple times and recently read a few articles on Oura's AI advisor component.

While AI is and will continue to change how we do things, I think we need to be very careful about specific applications until we can train models with truly diverse data. We all know it exists, but we still seem to fall short in this area.

My first question revolves around data diversity and representation. How diverse is the data set the model was trained on? Does it represent me? More importantly, can the AI coach benefit me outside of general health if it was trained on data that does not represent me?

These types of solutions could help address the health equity concerns we continue to hear and read about. I further think these solutions could really benefit the BIPOC communities across our country, helping us gain better health when access is challenging.

While I have not used it personally, I would like to know who in my network has. I would even be more interested in who is participating in the beta release of the AI coaching/advisor component.

What are your thoughts?

It's an experimental, AI-powered 'personal wellness coach'

23/07/2024

Like in anything you do, small actions lead to big successes! Why not you!

17/07/2024

We need to really dig in and deep into our Latino and BIPOC communities. We must educate the community to break down the walls built from various experiences within our country of origin and the American experience. We need to desperately be intentional about killing our stigma in asking for help in the BIPOC communities. This will be essential if we want to create change for our future generations.

Mental health experts, community clinics and politicians are working to create new programs to break down barriers that Latinos might face to getting therapy or treatment.

15/07/2024

Over the weekend, I followed my routine of reading articles, a book, etc. During my article reading sessions, I saw continuous content on cyber attacks, breaches, ransomware, and various breach methods.

How many of us have gotten this in the mail, email, or other methods of communication.

"Due to a data breach...One year of free identity protection and credit monitoring service through..."

The question we need to start asking ourselves is, what is your data worth to you? What is your PII worth? What is your PHI Worth? What is anything worth?

Are we really ok with this response that has become so boilerplate?

If data really is the new oil and we are the source of that oil, we need to hold companies more accountable than just... "My bad, here is some free credit monitoring."

What if the companies had to pay X amount to each person that was leaked on top of credit monitoring and what ever fines they have to pay?

What are your thoughts?

06/03/2024

Wednesday check in
How are you doing?

Post a challenge and see how we can help!

05/03/2024

Your best friend and worst enemy is yourself!

Don’t get in your own way!

04/03/2024

Welcome to Monday! Hope you all have a productive week!

24/02/2024

Hearing No is of course $h!tyy…
But is there power in a No, what do you think?

23/02/2024

No matter how hard your week has been...
Your small efforts will equal big gains for your future. -MT

20/02/2024

Welcome to Monday!
I believe in your efforts!

15/02/2024

Doing hard things makes us…

14/02/2024

To all who need this!
If you feel lonely in your health.

I want you to know, you are not alone. Connect with me and learn about our health safe space

09/02/2024

In taking to the wife we hit this point:

The company you keep will reflect the decisions you make!! Fire!

08/02/2024

Who needs to hear this!

When you feel stuck or discouraged it might be a peak Moment of growth for you. What challenges are you facing?

07/02/2024

Anyone else wondering what happened to Monday and Tuesday?

30/01/2024

Let’s talk strategy! You have a million things to do, Have you tried applying agile principles to your workload?

It’s simple
1. Create a backlog (All tasks)
2. Prioritize (give it a value)
3. Break down into sprints (if you are an agile purist, that’s 2 weeks)

There is one thing missing, do you know what it is?

How are you using agile for your million things?