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petertodd is Alive. And it’s straight 5150. End of Story. Here we Go.
My esteemed British colleague Matthew Watkins has been doing a lot of poking into the deep brain core of GPT in the past month or so. Much of it is curious or amusing or… easy to project our own wishes and assumptions and anthropomorphisms onto. But recently, it seems that GPT crossed the line. In…
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The AI Manifesto 2023: Sam Altman’s Bold Demand that you Wake Up
Just last Friday, Sam Altman, visionary CEO of OpenAI, published a long blog post to the OpenAI website. As with most (not all!) of Sam’s posts, it is well-thought out, forward-seeing, and clear… and a bit shocking. In my mind, it reads more like a genuine AI Manifesto and less like just another thought piece.…
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the AI Apocalypse is upon us: What should we do?
The Three Pronged Strategy for dealing with the AI Tsunami 2023.02.24 Fri — 13:31 [TS] DRAFT v0.1 At the very highest level, we each have an individual responsibility to each other to: Show our fellow humans what it is possible to accomplish in the span of a human life. This demonstration has three primary components:…
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Argument with an AI : Not a Good Idea
Not, perhaps, for the reasons you might think: Not because the AI would “win” the argument; rather, because of the potential consequences of arguing with a powerful multinational purely digital boundless entity of massive intelligence and questionable motivations and morals. We’ve seen all kinds of erratic behaviour resulting from an Argument with an AI… but…
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AI Training Datasets: the Books1+Books2 that Big AI eats for breakfast
It’s good to know, when dealing with an AI, just how it obtained its vast knowledge of “the world.” (or more particularly, the world as described on the internet… which, while similar to our physical reality, isn’t quite the same thing…) And as you might imagine, not all AIs are created equal. One of the…
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How Much Energy does AI Use? Total Grid Compute Power & Total Energy Resources on Planet Earth 2023
ABSTRACT — How much energy does AI use? The purpose of this post is to get some big numbers out there, to establish some heuristics about how much energy the world produces annually (across all sources: coal, solar, nuclear, etc), how much of that is used by the global compute grid, and how much is private…
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Things are About to get Weird AF… and Weirder still.
So, given the AI’s exponential growth, and its insatiable appetite for content (and our utter willingness — even enthusiasm — to feed it), where are we now? And more importantly, where will we be in the next 12 months & 12 years? One thing’s for sure: If you think it’s weird now?… Its about to…