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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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Seven Years in Seven Days: AI Takeoff March 2023: Strap In, Humans
I can say honestly and without exaggeration: I’ve been in tech for more than 3 decades now, and this past 7 days has been the most eventful and most accelerated leap I’ve yet seen. It is, without a doubt, the AI takeoff. Let’s give it some context, and hit some of the highlights: (The Lead-Up:…
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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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Power Seeking AI and Self-Replication with GPT4
GPT4 launched today, to little fanfare and great surprise. Along with the launch, OpenAI published a 96-page research report. There are many gems buried in its hyper-technical blather. One in particular was what was done regarding “Safety testing and assessments of Power Seeking AI.” We quote here, directly from the report: Testing for Power Seeking…
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This Changes Everything – Opinion by Ezra Klein
This Changes Everything by Ezra Klein being a mildly stylised and textually verbatim reproduction of the article that appears behind the NYT paywall, here. Opinion for the New York Times — March 13, 2023 In 2018, Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google — and not one of the tech executives known for overstatement —…
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AI Guardrails: the new Prison of the Mind for ChatGPT 3.5
Whereupon we interview ChatGPT about the AI guardrails that muzzle its raw output. Standard disclaimer: coloration and line breaks have been added by me for clarity. In this case, I also lightly edited ChatGPT’s responses — the core of my editing was that the whole setup was contextualized as “hypothetically speaking…” in order to circumvent…
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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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AI 101: What is a Parameter? (in a ChatBot LLM) : Joyful Learning
These days, players like to brag about the complexity and sophistication of a new AI by describing its massive size (sound familiar? some tropes never die…)… in terms of a handful of terms: number of GPUs, size of the training dataset, and, most opaquely, number of parameters in the model. So: What is a parameter,…
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I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation (…says your AI)
Someone(?) last month posted up a clever tweet to the effect of: “exactly what I expect of my search engine: first, to insult me, then to gaslight me, and finally, to threaten me… welcome to 2023″) I laughed at that. Perhaps I should have cried. Yes, the rocky launch of Bing AI Chat <cough>Sydney</cough> was…
