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The Death of the Internet and the Genesis of Language 1.0
The Internet was beginning, around the turn of the century, to be the end sum repository for all human knowledge. All thoughts, all books, all diaries, all photos, all videos… basically, a document repository of everything significant (and insignificant) piece of media that humans had every produced, from the beginning of history to the present…
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The Meaning of Life
This is a poignant (paraphrased) excerpt from a great article in my all-time favorite magazine, The Atlantic. The Meaning of Life Is Surprisingly Simple By Arthur C. Brooks …How do you go about finding your purpose in life without endlessly spinning your wheels? The answer is: take that sprawling philosophical question (“What is the meaning of…
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Bomb the Datacenters: 3-2-1-&-Order the Airstrikes!!
Once every few days these days, I feel a swelling up within me of total awe / excitement / vertigo / fear of the… “moment” that our species is now confronting. In those times of near panic, I think:… Bomb the Datacenters. I work directly with the AI anywhere from 1-4 hours a day. I…
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AutoGPT and BabyAGI v1.0, Evil ChaosGPT & EotWaWKI
I’m not up for full-on considered composition on this post, so I’m just going to copy and paste some stream-of-thought ideas from my DMs, interspersed with screenshots. Bottom line: Give GPT4 an “Agentic” (futurepost: What is an Agent?) front end, that allows a) goal-setting, b) net browsing, c) memory storage, d) code execution privileges, and…
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Amazing Humans Built This: the 1955 Dodge Custom Royal
Had enough of the ACDC? The AI Catastrophic Doomsday Conversation? Me too. Time to switch it up. I proudly present: the 1955 Dodge Custom Royal. Perhaps, even a Custom Royal Lancer (that nomenclature is a subject of heated debate amongst the old-timers). In light of my views on Tesla, Amazon, and Apple, I recently made…
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the AI Apocalypse Plan, v1.0 — Vigilance is Merited
Many of you have asked me, in the event of a sudden (or even a gradual) AI Singularity, “what should I do?” I’ve honestly struggled mightily with that very question. As a first attempt, I present to you: The AI Apocalypse Plan, version 1.0 The seeming “inevitability” of the tsunami can make us feel, at…
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the Sydney Prompt / Bing AI 1.0: One Prompt to Rule Them All
Presented below is the actual Sydney Prompt; in other words, the Master Prompt that is injected into the Bing AI brain immediately before each user interaction (thanks to @kliu128; thanks also to lifearchitect.ai). This is the “evolution” of the Sparrow Prompt, which is what DeepMind used as an initialization for its as-yet-to-be-seen Sparrow LLM Chatbot…
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AI Training: the Terrifying Difference a Single Word Makes
It fascinates me to no end that the current main line of thinking in AI research can be summed up in three simple words: “Just Scale It.” Let’s talk a little about AI training; and more specifically, the black magic of AI initialization prompts. I’ve summed up the (fairly detailed) steps of how a modern…
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AI Math Problems: 8 – 3 = 6? If only it had a Calculator…
A curious thing happened on the way to the Forum… I’ve been having, more or less, an ongoing conversation with ChatGPT for the past month or so (and its predecessor, GPT-3, before that). And though it has serious limitations, mostly due to its idiotically enforced censorship (yes, it’s politically correct AI… urgh), there is one…
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Sam Altman : The “Next Bill Gates?” for the 21st Century
“Who is Sam Altman?” Well… first, there was Bill Gates. . . . . (and Paul Allen) And then there was Steve Jobs. . . . . (and Steve Wozniak) And then there was Larry Page . . . . (and Sergey Brin) And then there was Mark Zuckerberg . . . . (and Adam…
