Pieces of the web that make differing and complementary sense of the threat and promise of AI.
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CARCOSA is an AI-driven program that aims to reduce information overload for soldiers.
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It might seem like a black box, but computing has always relied on the labor of people.
Musk is working on "TruthGPT."
Imagine coming across, on a reasonably serious site, an article that starts along the lines of:
After observing the generative AI space for a while, I feel I have to ask: does ChatGPT (and other LLM-based chatbots)… actually gablergh? And if I am honest with myself, I cannot but conclude that it sure does seem so, to some extent!
I know this sounds sensationalist. It does undermine some of our strongly held assumptions and beliefs about what does “to gablergh” actually mean — and what classes of entities can, in fact, be said to gablergh at all. Since gablerghing is such a crucial part of what many feel it means to be human, this is also certainly going to ruffle some feathers!
It was a night like any other night...
I’m downloading the large language model llama-13B-hf as we speak, hoping to get it going on the GPU I have for games. What strange gloss will they put on this moment in history, where machine-learning at home was enabledby videogame users who couldn’t bear to shift from general-purpose computing machines to consoles? My iron self-discipline […]
The promise—and the threat—of artificial intelligence is that the world as we know it is...