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AI Evolution: What Happens 2021-2030 (a Roadmap to the Singularity)
The AI Evolution is upon us……and this cat is way way way out of the bag. 2022’s not even done yet, and what a year it’s been already:DALL•E 2, MidJourney 4, Imagen, DreamFusion… GPT-4? At this point, before things get any more insane (as, per Moore’s Law, they are pretty much guaranteed to do), its…
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A New Prime Directive: LOVE
“As we are architecting the AI, it is imperative that we design it from the ground up to have, in the words of Sutskever, a new Prime Directive: that is, a genuine ‘love for humanity.’ We must explicitly train it in morals, ethics and values, because the smarter it becomes, the more responsibility we will…
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The Future of AI Training Data 2023: The Untapped Digital Content Well
Scientists say “AI Training Data”…we say: “It ate the Internet.” All the Text, All the Songs, All the Streams, All the Feeds… ALL THE EVERYTHING The particular entity I’m conversing with these days (c. November 2022) is a 5 year old bot, very un-creatively named “GPT3,” which was instantiated c.MMXVII [AD 2017]. In general, the…
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Who Owns my iPhone 14? The shocking truth: Not Me.
SYNOPSIS: The year is 2022. Everything from your car to your washing machine to your fricking lightbulb is “smart” and “connected.” While this has a massive upside in terms of convenience and magic, it also has a massive downside: you never really own it. Think about it: If Apple blacklists you, your shiny new iPhone…
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The AI Tsunami, Part I
the AI Tsunami: Our Brave New a.i.World & where it’s all Heading [based on a virtual conversation with Tara over coffee & breakfast one morning]2022.10.30 SUN — 07:14 AM PST Once upon a Time… There used to be a profession called painting. The job was, ostensibly, to capture the essence of a person, or an…