- OpenAI made public a new tool called ChatGPT. It is widely regarding as a practical breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Given a question, it can produce a coherent essay-length answer. Last week, my employer held a meeting to discuss how it will impact college classes. OpenAI expects to make a billion dollars in 2024 with ChatGPT.
- The US governments redistribute a greater share of the national income to low-income groups than any European country.
- People who report being good looking also report having a more meaningful life.
- Mushrooms might be highly effective against depression.
- Inside our microprocessors, we have very fast memory used for ‘caches’, so that repeatedly accessed data is readily available. For that purpose, chips vendor use SRAM technology. SRAM is very fast but also relatively expensive. Over time, we are generally able to make processors ever more denser and thus, we can design more powerful processors for more or less a fixed cost. Having more memory on the processor is a key ingredient for better performance. Sadly, it appears that SRAM density is no longer improving.
- For the first time in history, we have produced more energy through fusion than we put in. Sadly, the overall process is still inefficient and we still need an improvement by at least a factor of ten in the efficiency.
- People of higher status are more likely to adhere strictly by medical recommandations, except for doctors themselves and the doctors’s families. Doctors appear to follow superior guidelines that they privately share solely with their families. For example, doctors prescribe themselves superior antibiotics.
- There is no correlation between intelligence and belief in climate change. Rather, belief in climate change appears to be dictated by politics.
- Intermittent fasting reverses type-2 diabetes.
- We may print hair follicle directly on the scap. It works in mice.
- Lifting weights reduces your mortality rate, from all causes including cancer and cardiovascular. It appears that 60 minutes of training per week is optimal.
- Eating too much fiber can cause intestinal inflammation.
Science and Technology links (December 25 2022)
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Elon is, indeed, one of the early investors in OpenAI, but it can hardly be called one of his ventures. He even quit the board because of possible conflict of interest.
The model behind ChatGP, text-davinci-003, has been available in the OpenAI playground for a while (free registration). It somehow made far less buzz when it wasn’t conversational but merely predicted the next word in a text. It also seems less scary. We don’t tend to project a personality onto a prediction model. But it has the same core capabilities.
As a parent of kids who are about to decide what kind of career to pursue, is there any point in still encouraging them to follow their interests in CS and math? To me, the future job prospects of software engineers increasingly look very bleak, given the code generating capabilities of ChatGPT…
Nobody can tell the future but it is not clear to me that computer programmers are more vulnerable.
It is unlikely that ChatGPT or any other artificial intelligence (AI) system will make software engineers redundant. While AI and machine learning systems can automate certain tasks, they still require human oversight and input to function effectively.
Software engineers play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of AI and machine learning systems. They are responsible for designing and implementing the algorithms that power these systems, as well as integrating them into existing systems and applications.
Additionally, software engineers are responsible for debugging and troubleshooting issues that arise, as well as continuously improving and updating the AI and machine learning systems to keep them functioning at their best.
Therefore, it is unlikely that ChatGPT or any other AI system will completely replace the need for software engineers. Instead, it is more likely that AI and machine learning systems will augment the work of software engineers and enable them to be more efficient and effective in their roles.
Btw: the above was written by ChatGPT… 😉
Good programmers will be among the last to go. There are already tools to write boilerplate code; this is an evolution of that. Until general AI takes all intellectual and creative work, we’ll need people who can translate the nebulous desires of a business into working systems. And while ChatGPT and it’s ilk can reproduce and combine existing systems, like they’re trained on, they can’t imagine novel systems. Yet.
Regarding the fusion, it’s not a factor of 10 sadly, it’s a factor of 100, because efficiency of the lasers is only 1% (they used 400 megajoules) and heat is not transformed into electricity with losing half of that in the way.
I am sure you are correct. My wording was ‘an improvement by at least a factor of ten in the efficiency.’
Looks like dec 2022 was a huge huge month for breakthroughs. Chatgpt and Net fusion were introduced. Two of the biggest technologies since the last many years (decades?)/