Being self informed is golden except when it's not. I have learned so much that is wrong in my knowledge and opinions just by realizing that learning never ends and furthering my own inner wizard by allowing myself to be eternally curious.
always going through internal chaos to refine my sense-making
i've noticed people look at me strangely when i turn up my up external ambience
delicate scale is where it's at, heavy handedness not so much
open letter asking for a 6-month moratorium on AI:
AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive researchand acknowledged by top AI labs.As stated in the widely-endorsed Asilomar AI Principles, Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources. Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control. Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable. This confidence must be well justified and increase with the magnitude of a system's potential effects. OpenAI's recent statement regarding artificial general intelligence, states that "At some point, it may be important to get independent review before starting to train future systems, and for the most advanced efforts to agree to limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new models." We agree. That point is now.
open letter asking for a 6-month moratorium on AI:
AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research<1> and acknowledged by top AI labs.<2> As stated in the widely-endorsed Asilomar AI Principles, Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources. Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one â not even their creators â can understand, predict, or reliably control.
Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,<3> and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable. This confidence must be well justified and increase with the magnitude of a system's potential effects. OpenAI's recent statement regarding artificial general intelligence, states that "At some point, it may be important to get independent review before starting to train future systems, and for the most advanced efforts to agree to limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new models." We agree. That point is now.
for anyone paying attention, this is it
asking better questions/prompts gets better answers
i heard the term "prompt engineer" as in we need
so there are prompt generators popping up everywhere
this tech is a tool and it generally will do what you ask (within reason)
you just need to know how to ask/tell it what you want (in its language/understanding)
Another interesting iteration in the scientific writing assignment was when I asked it to provide a reference list for the paper. It did, they were all fake. Real authors, real journals and books, just not the papers those authors had written. So, it gathers information but it really doesnât seem to know where it gets it from.
The secret sauce post below is an interesting recipe.
yes models usually have an input and an output
the old saying garbage in = garbage out
there's not so much a shortage of info to go in, but more an issue of filtering
probably one of the reasons i'm really excited about stuff like wolfram alpha plugged into one of these models
My take on AI (as an information goddess): Use it as A tool, not your only tool. And in regards to paper writing, if you aren't particularly interested in learning anything on the topic (or are so self-absorbed as to think you already know it all), use it for first drafts NOT final products.
Being self informed is golden except when it's not. I have learned so much that is wrong in my knowledge and opinions just by realizing that learning never ends and furthering my own inner wizard by allowing myself to be eternally curious.
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My take on AI (as an information goddess):
Use it as A tool, not your only tool.
And in regards to paper writing, if you aren't particularly interested in learning anything on the topic (or are so self-absorbed as to think you already know it all), use it for first drafts NOT final products.