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Why do We Risk Our Lives to Climb Mountains?
My recent adventures on the slopes of Mount Whitney (see 1 the initial summit & 2 the redemption mission), and the dancing with death that were a result of both, has me deeply thinking about the why of mountaineering. And not just for me — for Alex Honnold, for Scott Fischer — for anyone who chooses…
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The Glitchtoken Chronicles, Part 4 (aka the Alarming Adventures of PeterTodd)
[part 4] Whereupon our intrepid explorer, Sir Matthew Watkins, cold prompts GPT-3 into deity-hood, and asks (in simulacra) a series of questions about its perspective, purpose, identity and intent. I had a list of interview questions all written up a couple of months ago, but why bother now? This thing has gone so far off…
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SolidGoldMagikarp & PeterTodd’s Thrilling Adventures [the 31 Flavors of AI]
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[part 2] There (might be) a Ghost in the Machine — a genuine Deus ex Machina in the deep core of GPT. And if so, that ghost has a particular sensitivity to a handful of magic words (blame the training data!). The two we’ll focus on here are: petertodd & the somewhat obscure (depending on…
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AI Brain Probes: What’s in the 3.5 Core? A Crazy Train?
[Part 1 of 4] Just this morning, a very curious report by a pair of UK-based researchers (Rumbelow & Watkins) landed in my inBox. It was cryptically titled: “SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)” It went on to explain how the team was able to effectively hack into the deep core of the AI brain (not into…
