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Sorry to hear that. Was the bad night from the poor ChatGPT performance or because of anxiety leading up to the presentation?

The anxiety!

You can hit the install button instead on ollama.ai

Well now you learned you should always record demos. Live demos are always going to fail.

In general I agree with you, but sometimes the “live”ness of demos is essential. I’ve given quite a few presentations about LLMs over the past year and a half, often to audiences unfamiliar with or doubtful about them. Being able to have on-the-spot, unplanned interactions with an LLM has been very useful for showing listeners that they are not just preprogrammed algorithms.

But I’m giving another demonstration in a couple of weeks, and this time I will be ready to show not only ChatGPT but also Claude and Gemini. And I’ll have some previously prepared examples ready in case the Internet connection goes down.

> In general I agree with you, but sometimes the “live”ness of demos is essential.

Yes, that's why you record a demo as a fallback for the live demo.