The Importance of ChatGPT Literacy in Today's Business World + The rise of AI and chatbots in business + The benefits of ChatGPT literacy for companies + Examples of successful implementation of ChatGPT in corporate settings
They could help, but they weren't any smarter than the geniuses we have now, and there were a lot fewer of them. There are 4x as many people now, so recruiting from 1927 should give us 20% more people over any given threshold.
Quality of life has improved more in the past century than ever before. I just think people are too distracted by the media, their phones, and the news to realize...
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 25, 2023
A simple mindset trick I use daily:
Every time I put in another "boring" rep, I picture myself "leapfrogging" the millions of people who quit at that exact point in the journey.
Helps me continue to cherish the path of monotonous consistency in everything I do.
In 2006, I helped @ericschmidt create a deck outlining Google’s strategy, for a presentation Eric was delivering to the company. It taught me a profound lesson on how to present.
When I showed up to my first meeting with Eric, he asked me to visit with every…
Indian diplomats & apparatchiks engineered this ‘gathbandhan’ government in broad daylight, with chief of a minuscule party made ‘comfortable’ prime minister. Nepali leaders are eating humble pie after defeat in Tanahun & Chitwan, but what of accountability of Indian ‘handlers’?
— Kanak Mani Dixit - Blue tick goes here (@KanakManiDixit) April 25, 2023
Mediocre intelligence + curiosity + showing up every day will destroy most people who are 10x smarter than you.
I hope @SwarnimWagle succeeds in representing his constituency and country as an open, transparent, and accountable leader. I hope he carves a path to nurture a new generation of young leaders who are invested in championing good governance.
At Microsoft all employees are asked not to look at patents. Why? In a patent suit, I learned, damages are triple if they can prove an employee saw the patent in question.
How would a company enforce that when you are using an LLM on your home computer or phone that does this? https://t.co/MkQq7oLZZ5
INTERNET: “This is only good for porn.” ONLINE DATING: “Way too creepy.” AIRBNB: “People won’t sleep in a stranger’s house.” AI: “This will never make an image of a Pope in a coat or the best rap song ever.”
First reactions to trailblazing tech are usually wrong. Ignore them.
I can't imagine anything worse than a floating TED from which there is no escape from "a multidisciplinary experience designed to foster deep connections within our community of amazing like-minded people." Drown me now. https://t.co/anlrgdYh8e
The influence of teachers, good & bad, can last generations.
A study of 500 years of music shows a teacher’s style is reflected in the work of their students & their students’ students: “the teacher lives on as a reverberation in the work of the student” https://t.co/QxAfOLPgFbpic.twitter.com/ueWCV6NFqV
“The United States is in an especially weak position to defend global norms after the presidency of Donald Trump, which saw contempt for global rules and practices in areas as diverse as the climate, human rights, and nuclear nonproliferation.”https://t.co/V3l8TQUQWD
All the #Humanities need to be involved here and not the professors or researchers but the ones closest to the public. Too many academics here who have forgotten where the real impact sits and are too far removed from reality.@sundarpichaihttps://t.co/nngViJ7wy0
At Microsoft all employees are asked not to look at patents. Why? In a patent suit, I learned, damages are triple if they can prove an employee saw the patent in question.
How would a company enforce that when you are using an LLM on your home computer or phone that does this? https://t.co/MkQq7oLZZ5
If you don't believe in GOD, I don't care. That's your choice. But I do, so don't tell me GOD doesn't exist just because you don't choose to believe in him. While you're NOT believing in him, tell the rest of us where did all of this creation come from & where are the offices?
How the 1223 Mongol invasion of Europe still impacts us today Mongol forces never fully conquered the continent, but they played a key role in its historical development. ........ Thanks in part to their unrivaled horsemanship and archery skills — Mongolian bows were lighter, faster, and more precise than their European counterparts — the Mongols plowed through armies many times their size, and Hungary proved no exception. ........ and an estimated 25% of all Hungarians slaughtered........... The Hungarian king, Béla IV, fled to the Dalmatian coast, which was part of Croatia at the time, where he and his kingdom would have surely been crushed were it not for Ogodei Khan, whose sudden death later that year compelled Mongol forces everywhere to return home to elect a new leader........ The Mongol invasion of Europe, left unfinished, left its mark on the survivors. “The entire precious kingdom,” the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II wrote of Hungary, “was depopulated, devastated and turned into a barren wasteland.” The invasion is also believed to have facilitated the spread of the bubonic plague, leading to the deaths of up to 200 million people worldwide. ......... Poland, Hungary, and particularly Russia bounced back stronger, building the foundation for nation-states that are still around today. With the lands of Asia united under a single ruler, ideas and inventions could travel more freely and safely from one end of the world to another. In a weird way, the Mongols even had a hand in events as distant as Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. .......... Although the Mongols may well have been able to conquer all of Europe, they never did. After the passing of Ogodei, invasions gave way to infighting as multiple heirs of Genghis Khan laid claim to his title. ......... Hungary, renowned for its pastures and grasslands, had long been designated as the last leg of their campaign. The dense forests of Central and Western Europe, by comparison, were not only difficult for the nomadic Mongols to navigate in times of war, but also pointless to occupy in peace. ......... the Pax Mongolica ......... Central to the Pax Mongolica was the resurgence of international trade. Not since the ancient Romans had there been an empire large and powerful enough to bring Europe into sustained contact with East Asia. Under Mongol supervision, the trade routes of the Silk Road, many of which had become dangerous and deserted after the collapse of Rome, reopened, creating new industries and economies. Rice and porcelain traveled West as glassware and fur went East. Chinese silk, arguably the most important product of all, made the Italian city-states of Genoa, Florence, and Venice wealthy enough to finance the Renaissance. ............. Merchants along the Silk Road not only traded in consumer goods but also in ideas, inventions, and identities. ........ after the Mongol invasion of Europe, when life-altering technologies like printmaking and gunpowder, which had been around for centuries in the East, moved westward. Documents show gunpowder, thought to have been invented in Han dynasty China around 140 AD, appeared in the Middle East as early as 1240 ............. As a rule, the Mongols killed anyone who didn’t surrender. Conversely, they tended to spare those who did. In a move that distinguishes him from most other imperialists, Genghis Khan promoted religious tolerance, creating an environment in which Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Taoists could express their faith without fear of being harmed. Genghis also allowed monks and missionaries to travel the Silk Road, a decision that ultimately enabled the famous voyages of the Venetian merchant Marco Polo. .......... in 1368, China’s Ming dynasty usurped the Mongol-backed Yuan dynasty in part to resist the encroachment of Christianity. .......... the biggest legacy of the Mongol invasion of Eastern Europe is the role it played in unifying the principalities of Kievan Rus’ into a single governing body. Prior to the arrival of the Mongols, the territory that comprises modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, and western Russia was tied together by a confederation of loosely affiliated city-states. The most powerful of these city-states was Kyiv until the Mongols captured and destroyed it in 1240. ............. Under Mongol rule, another principality, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, emerged as the new cultural, religious, and military epicenter of the region. It was Moscow that eventually overthrew the Mongols, using the victory to establish an empire of its own: the Tsardom of Russia. ........... Presenting an oversimplified version of the distant past, Putin has referred to Kyiv as “the mother of Russian cities,” of a people destined to ward off international threats, be that the sons of Genghis Khan or the agents of American imperialism. .
Genghis Khan’s grandson introduced paper money—and inadvertently tanked the Mongol Empire Kublai Khan wasn’t the first ruler in history to issue paper money, but his Yuan dynasty did take unprecedented action to ensure this revolutionary form of currency retained its value. ........ When the Venetian merchant Marco Polo traveled to Asia in the late thirteenth century, he was shocked to learn that the inhabitants of Mongolian China went about their daily business using paper money. ........ Of all the innovations Polo encountered in the east, including gunpowder and eyeglasses, paper money was perhaps the most outlandish. Back in his native Venice, not to mention any other place in the known world at that point in time, people used money that was made from copper, silver and gold: materials which had intrinsic as opposed to artificial value. ......... “All these pieces of paper,” Polo later recounted in his Book of the Marvels of the World, “are issued with as much solemnity and authority as if they were of pure gold or silver.” ........ Under Kublai’s watch, paper money spread from China to the Middle East, turning the concept from an oddity into a normality. .......... — by the 7th century C.E. — there arose a network of agencies where overburdened merchants could deposit their purses in exchange for promissory notes. ........ China’s promissory agencies were regulated and eventually incorporated by the Song dynasty, which ruled from 960 until 1279 C.E. During this time, the Song issued what is thought to be the first government-produced paper money in history: the jiaozi. ......... Each note was made using a variety of fibers and given an expiration date of three years in order to discourage forgery. ........... This currency remained in circulation for only nine years, disappearing completely when China was conquered by Mongols and placed under direct management of Kublai Khan. ......... By Kublai’s orders, it was used from Yuan China to the Middle East. Local coins were outlawed, forcing people to redeem their wealth in the newly issued currency. ........ Anyone who refused to accept the chao, or preferred to pay in other currencies, was sentenced to death. More importantly, taxes could only be paid in chao. ........ Kublai’s government was the first “both in Chinese and world history to use paper money as the sole medium of circulation. ......... the chao the first historical instance of fiat money, or money which is not backed by an intrinsically valuable commodity like gold or silver. ....... the unification of currency under Kublai Khan’s monetary reform promoted economic development in Yuan China.” ........ the various actions that Kublai’s government took to ensure the currency’s value remained fixed in turbulent times. New notes were printed sparingly to prevent hyperinflation. The government even set up its own granaries to offset the market when, following poor harvests or natural disasters, rice prices rose. ......... in wartime, as Kublai’s campaign against the Song dynasty took a hefty toll on the Mongol Empire’s silver reserves. When these reserves were fully depleted, newly printed chao notes could no longer be backed up and their value depreciated rapidly. ........... The Yuan dynasty was crippled by inflation, a problem that continued until its collapse in 1368. Disillusioned .......... happened to Kublai Khan during his war against the Song. It also happened, to a lesser extent and in a much more complicated way, at the start of the 2008 financial crisis. In the face of this global recession, a mysterious individual known as Satoshi Nakamoto developed Bitcoin — a currency whose value is based on cryptography rather than the reputation of social institutions. .......... the use of gold or, in case of the Mongols, silver standards. While these standards help control inflation and depreciation, they can also cripple an economy when reserves are depleted. For this exact reason, the U.S. government abandoned the Gold Standard in 1971 and has stuck to fiat money ever since. ....... Above all, Kublai Khan and his dynasty are remembered for the high level of scrutiny with which they managed their economy. Although this economy eventually collapsed, Kublai’s constituents enjoyed decades of prosperity and innovation. .
Bye, paper currencies: How blockchain and fintech will soon transform money Digital currencies are set to upend paper currencies, but it likely won't be the decentralized utopia some hope it will be. ....... A book is written when there is something specific that has to be discovered. The writer doesn’t know what it is, nor where it is, but knows it has to be found. The hunt then begins. The writing begins. — Roberto Calasso, The Celestial Hunter ........... In May 2018, Cecilia Skingsley, the deputy governor of Sweden’s central bank, foretold the end of money as we know it. Speaking about the declining use of physical cash in Sweden, she observed that “if you extrapolate current trends, the last note will have been handed back to the Riksbank by 2030.” In other words, the use of paper currency to carry out commercial transactions in Sweden would cease at that point. ........ China is another country where the use of cash is quickly becoming a thing of the past. ......... My Chinese friends would look on with befuddlement as I pulled out my currency notes rather than my phone to pay for a meal or coffee. ........ The truly revolutionary change in finance seemed to have been heralded by Bitcoin. ......... The price of Bitcoin, which was less than $500 in 2015, hit nearly $20,000 in December 2017. ......... Bitcoin’s price surged to over $60,000 in March 2021. .
Thinking About AI: Part 3 - Existential Risk (Terminator Scenario) First, we have shown no ability to globally coordinate on other existential threats including ones that are much more obvious, so why do we think we could succeed here? Second, who wants to give government that much power over controlling core parts of computing infrastructure, such as the shipment of GPUs? ........ It is absurd to expect that you can have a good outcome when you train a model first on the web corpus and then attempt to constrain it via reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). ......... This is akin to letting a child grow up without any moral guidance along the way and then expect them to be a well behaved adult based on occasionally telling them they are doing something wrong. We have to create a large corpus of moral reasoning that can be ingested early and form the core of a superintelligence before exposing it to all the world’s output. .......... we’re not doing terribly well on the central humanist value of critical inquiry. We’re also not treating other species well, our biggest failing in this area being industrial meat production. Here as with many other problems that humans have created, I believe the best way forward is innovation. I’m excited about lab-grown meat and plant-based meat substitutes. Improving our treatment of other species is an important way in which we can use the attention freed up by automation. .
I think we should legalize it. The probability of overdose or a bad batch is greatly reduced if there is actual QA & regulation.
Also, crime flourishes when substances are made illegal. Alcohol is very much a “drug” – it’s just a legacy drug from olden times when we had no…
It gave 25 AI agents motivations & memory, and put them in a simulated town.
Not only did they engage in complex behavior (including throwing a Valentine’s Day party) but the actions were rated more human than humans roleplaying. https://t.co/G7oJW1S3napic.twitter.com/d7Gp4sXp4V
1/ Macron's (approved) quotes are memorable. They reinforce IMO that the best way to strengthen trans-Atlantic unity is to invest in shared interests and objectives (broadly defined) rather than chase the chimera of shared opposition to China's rise... https://t.co/7p95B2T9bh
Based on what I have seen, I think we can assume three things about AI & education: 1) AI tutors are going to be very effective 2) AI writing will not be caught by anti-cheating software 3) Human instructors will be freed to focus on making learning betterhttps://t.co/prg1eJiFyQ
We're ON TRACK to move to 100% renewable energy by 2030. Here's proof:
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 10, 2023
3/ Currently, solar accounts for 54% of all new U.S. electric capacity. Solar deployment is growing 50% YoY as of 2022.
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 10, 2023
4/ In 2017, Perovskite was at 3% efficiency, but we understood its potential to be cheaper and bring a more accessible future. Today, Perovskite solar cells are achieving 29% efficiency and, soon enough, 45% conversion. pic.twitter.com/FiuIqZQLmd
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 10, 2023
5/ Battery storage is set to double in 2023. > 2022 = 9.4 GW of utility battery storage > 2023= 19 GW > 2024= 28.4 GW
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 10, 2023
6/ There are 13 gigafactories in construction in the U.S. and over 20 in Europe.
Today we need 100 gigafactories to store the GLOBAL demand for batteries.
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 10, 2023
7/ Electric Vehicle production grew 59% year-on-year in 2022. EVs now make up 10% of global auto sales (a 75% increase since 2021).
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 10, 2023
8/ Automakers plan to build 54 MILLION battery electric cars in 2030, representing more than 50% of vehicle production. pic.twitter.com/4Q6ntw5rEA
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 10, 2023
9/ The Nuscale Power Module is the FIRST small modular reactor to receive approval from the NRC. They're so safe I would put them in my backyard.
1% of the volume of a conventional reactor would power 60,000 homes.
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 10, 2023
10/ We've heard about the breakthrough at Livermore National Lab, achieving fusion net energy gain. But there's more. > 37 ventured-backed fusion companies > $4.8 B invested into nuclear fusion research (2x since 2021) > 93% of fusion firms believe it will be on the grid by 2030
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 10, 2023
And here's Nutmeg's new baby boy! Anyone want to suggest a "J" name for this handsome fella? pic.twitter.com/8wd1jFMJi2
CCP appointed Shen Bin as new bishop of Shanghai w/o approval from Vatican,in what is seen as breach of 2018 agreement. Shen vowed to 'carry forward the fine tradition of patriotism," referring to forced sinicization of all religious faiths under Xi.https://t.co/Cs9iSB1BUH
"Even today, even in the darkness surrounding us, even sitting in this cage, I love my country and believe in our people. I believe that we can walk this path"@vkaramurza delivered these remarks today at the closing session of his trial on treason chargeshttps://t.co/eabWq3bdUM
Tax season. Spoke with CPA who does a lot of filings for clients in Valley tech. He said he’s seeing several clients try to claim tax refunds, only to be told by the state: “Sorry, someone already claimed your refund.”
How? Identity theft. With all the data breaches, I guess it…
Come is as lead investor, take a role, even if only advisory, and beware of also-rans, this is actually hard to do. This is not just about feeding all the documents. It is primarily about what happens after that. There are human elements involved. I read the responses.
How to raise money Capital is the lifeblood of any high growth company. It has to be treated as a key priority. It can never be outsourced or downgraded to a second priority. ...... I’ve raised over $1 billion in my career as a technology entrepreneur. ....... I’ve pitched almost every VC and technology investor on the planet. I’ve also been declined by almost every technology investor at some point in my career. ......... Investors are looking for certain traits. Without these, you have little chance of raising a single dollar. ...........
Fundraising is about talking to 200 investors and finding the 1 person who will take a bet on you.
I’ve always experienced really low conversion rates in these efforts - it’s never been easy for me to raise capital. And that’s quite normal. ........... If your idea is in the Space industry, talking to an internet marketplace VC fund will likely not be fruitful. ......... Investor Meetings: This is the output to all your hard work. The goal is to drive up the number of qualified investor meetings as high as possible. You want to do 50-200 of these meetings. The more qualified investor meetings, the higher your odds of raising capital. .............. I find Crunchbase to be one of the best resources for finding a list of these investors and also analyzing the investors of other similar companies in your industry. ........ work to find the investment partner who covers your specific industry and maturity. Research this person online to make sure it’s a close match. ......... I suggest spending a few days trying to get as many referrals as possible.Once you hit your limit, move to outbound for the rest. ........... I suggest spending a few days trying to get as many referrals as possible.Once you hit your limit, move to outbound for the rest. ......... I’ve found this entire process from start to finish will take at least 3 months. I suggest spending 30 days preparing the investor deck, data room, mapping out investors, and your cold email template. ......... The next 30-60 days are investor outreach and meetings, or however long it takes to get a term sheet. Once you have a term sheet it generally takes ............
No VC’s were investing in SpaceX and Tesla back in 2003.
........ matching your industry and the capital requirements with the investors is critical to not spin your wheels. ....... Behind a great product or service is usually a #1 team. I call it a Championship Team. There’s no way you’re building a great product without a #1 team and investors, especially Seed and Series A, understand this. Showcasing the founder(s) and the team is critical. ............ 80% of all investor pitches should come from an outbound process which is defined by a cold call or cold email. The other 20% should come from traditional inbound processes - people you know in the industry and referrals from friends, colleagues and other investors. ............ If you are successful in your career you will be doing hundreds of investor pitches and the deck is usually the first impression the investor has. ......... Investors will move at lightning speed if they are interested in getting a deal done. If the investor is interested then they will be charging forward. If you are in a situation where the investor is not hurrying, then it is likely a sign you don’t have a deal. .......... Only focus on finding a “lead” investor and put on pause any investor who doesn’t have the capabilities to give you a term sheet and lead your round. Once you get the first lead investor to say Yes, then the probabilities of getting other investors interested goes up dramatically. .......... Given the importance of capital, fundraising likely becomes the #1 attention for founders when out capital raising. This is not entirely healthy as it distracts you from working on the most important area of a company - the product ....... in 2012 I was accepted into the NYU Tech Incubator for Vettery (an online recruiting marketplace I founded.) ....... Capital raising was extremely difficult for me. In my early days, I couldn’t get a single legitimate Venture Capital investor to invest after countless pitches. ......... I ended up raising all from angels over the next 3 years to make payroll and survive. At one point, I had pitched every legitimate tech investor in the U.S. ....... I took a $0 salary for 4 years as I didn’t have enough excess capital to pay myself. I was personally investing my life savings into the company, paying NYC rent, medical, etc. During 2015, I had to borrow $50k to pay for rent. I was in debt, dead broke, and the business wasn’t hitting product market fit. ......... I realized a lot of the conventional wisdom for early founders is broken and wrong. In 2021, I took Archer Aviation public (which was like winning the super bowl for startup founders.) ........ The entire venture game is predicated on finding outliers and extreme exceptions. Investors are looking for something A) unique, B) aligned with their personal thesis, and C) within their investing mandate. There are 4,000+ companies looking to raise capital each year and only a handful will return close to all of the returns for those investors.
Naming a company it can make or break your branding. ......... "Warby Parker" is an odd name for a glasses company. ........ Engineer a name that eventually becomes a thing people do. ...... Great examples of this include Google, Photoshop, and Uber. ....... Nobody says "I need to grab a ride share." ......... The sweet spot is a 2-syllable name...... Some good examples for this are Nike, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook. ......... Your name needs to be easy enough for a 7 year old to spell. ....... Your name needs to be easy enough for a 7 year old to spell. ........ Apple, Tesla, and Nike.
"Once pre-trained, the prompt with a strong transferable ability can be directly plugged into a variety of visual recognition tasks including image classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection, to boost recognition performances in a zero-shot manner."
"I ended up raising all from angels over the next 3 years to make payroll and survive. At one point, I had pitched every legitimate tech investor in the U.S." #bravo@adcock_bretthttps://t.co/AkynhOyE2W
Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash’ and Competing With ChatGPT “Am I concerned? Yes. Am I optimistic and excited about all the potential of this technology? Incredibly.” ........ This transcript was created using speech recognition software. ....... as of last week, Bard, Google’s effort at building consumer-grade AI, is out in the world. ......... So last week, we talked about Google’s new chat bot called Bard, which is supposed to be their answer to ChatGPT and some of these other generative AI chat bots ........ the reaction among the public to Bard so far has been pretty lukewarm. ......... Google certainly had a dominant position in AI research for many years. They came out with this thing, the Transformer, that revolutionized the field of AI and created the foundations for ChatGPT and all these other programs. ......... And they got sort of hamstrung by a lot of — to hear people inside Google tell it — big company politics and bureaucracy. And I think it’s safe to say that they got sort of upstaged by OpenAI. ......... they are more threatened than they have been in a very long time........ Google has been a relatively conflict-averse company for the past half decade-plus. They don’t like picking fights. If they can just keep their heads down, quietly do their work, and print money with a monopolistic search advertising business, they’re happy to do it. ......... they have to somehow figure out, how do we capitalize on generative AI without destroying our own search business? .......... Google plays a huge role in my life. That’s where my email is. That’s how I get around town. It’s how I waste hours of my life on YouTube. ......... one way to get really good responses out of these AI chat bots is to prime them first. And one way to prime them is to use flattery. So instead of just saying, write me an email, you say, you are an award-winning writer. Your prose is sparkling. Now write me this email. ........ we put out one of our smaller models out there, what’s powering Bard. And we were careful. ....... we are going to be training fast. We clearly have more capable models. Pretty soon, maybe as this goes live, we will be upgrading Bard to some of our more capable PaLM models, so which will bring more capabilities, be it in reasoning, coding. It can answer math questions better. So you will see progress over the course of next week. .............. I don’t want it to be just who’s there first, but getting it right is very important to us. .......... The thing that is different about Bard compared to some of these other chat bots is that it’s connected to Google. ........ If you let me, I would plug Bard into my Gmail right now ......... You can go crazy thinking about all the possibilities, because these are very, very powerful technologies. ........... You can kind of give it a few bullets, and it can compose an email. ......... The enterprise use case is obvious. You can fine tune it on an enterprise’s data so it makes it much more powerful, again with all the right privacy and security protections in place. ........... in search, we have had to adapt when videos came in. ........ So for example, in Bard already, we can see people look for a lot of coding examples, if you’re developers. I’m excited. We’ll have coding capabilities in Bard very soon, right? And so you just kind of play with all this, and go back and forth, I think. Yeah............ So in September of last year, you were asked by an interview who Google’s competitors were. And you listed Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, sort of, all the big companies — TikTok. One company you did not mention in September was OpenAI. And then, two months after that interview, ChatGPT comes out and turns the whole tech industry on its head ........ ChatGPT — you know, credit to them for finding something with a product market fit. .......... it’s a bit ironic that Microsoft can call someone else an 800-pound gorilla, given the scale and size of their company. ......... I would say we’ve been incorporating AI in search for a long, long time. .......... we literally took transformer models to help improve language understanding and search deeply. And it’s been one of our biggest quality events for many, many years. ......... search is where people come because they trust it to get information right. ........... we are definitely working with technology, which is going to be incredibly beneficial, but clearly has the potential to cause harm in a deep way. And so I think it’s very important that we are all responsible in how we approach it. ........
I did not issue a code red
........... Sergey has been hanging out with our engineers for a while now. ....... And he’s a deep mathematician and a computer scientist. So to him, the underlying technology — I think if I were to use his words, he would say it’s the most exciting thing he has seen in his lifetime. So it’s all that excitement, and I’m glad. They’ve always said, call us whenever you need to, and I call them. ............. when many parts of the company are moving, you can create bottlenecks, and you can slow down. ......... AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. I’ve always felt that for a while. I think it will get to the essence of what humanity is. ........ I remember talking to Elon eight years ago, and he was deeply concerned about AI safety then. And I think he has been consistently concerned. ............
AI is too important an area not to regulate. It’s also too important an area not to regulate well.
........ I’ve never seen a technology in its earliest days with as much concern as AI. ........ To me at least there is no way to do this effectively without getting governments involved. .......... It is so clear to me that these systems are going to be very, very capable. And so it almost doesn’t matter whether you’ve reached AGI or not. You’re going to have systems which are capable of delivering benefits at a scale we have never seen before and potentially causing real harm. .......... There is a spectrum of possibilities. ......... They could really progress in a two-year time frame. And so we have to really make sure we are vigilant and working with it. ........... AI, like climate change, is it affects everyone. .......... No one company can get it right. We have been very clear about responsible AI — one of the first companies to put out AI principles. We issue progress reports.......... AI is too important an area not to regulate. It’s also too important an area not to regulate well. .......... if we have a foundational approach to privacy, that should apply to a technologies, too. ........ health care is a very regulated industry, right? And so when AI is going to come in, it has to conform with all regulations. .......... there’s a non-zero risk that this stuff does something really, really bad ......... it’s like asking, hey, why aren’t you moving fast and breaking things again? ....... I actually — I got a text from a software engineer a friend of mine the other day who was asking me if he should go into construction or welding because all of the software jobs are going to be taken by these large language models. ............ some of the grunt work you’re doing as part of programming is going to get better. So maybe it’ll be more fun to program over time — no different from the Google Docs make it easier to write. ........... programming is going to become more accessible to more people. .......... we are going to evolve to a more natural language way of programming over time .......... When Bard is at its best, it answers my questions without me having to visit another website. I know you’re cognizant of this. But man, if Bard gets as good as you want it to be, how does the web survive? .......... it turns out if you order your fries well done, which is not on the menu, they arrive much crispier and more delicious. .
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Elon Musk's AI History May Be Behind His Call To Pause Development Musk is no longer involved in OpenAI and is frustrated he doesn’t have his own version of ChatGPT yet. .......... OpenAI was co-founded by Sam Altman, who butted heads with Musk in 2018 when Musk decided he wasn’t happy with OpenAI’s progress. Several large tech companies had been working on artificial intelligence tools behind the scenes for years, with Google making significant headway in the late 2010s.......... Musk worried that OpenAI was running behind Google and reportedly told Altman he wanted to take over the company to accelerate development. But Altman and the board at OpenAI rejected the idea that Musk—already the head of Tesla, The Boring Company and SpaceX—would have control of yet another company......... “Musk, in turn, walked away from the company—and reneged on a massive planned donation. The fallout from that conflict, culminating in the announcement of Musk’s departure on Feb 20, 2018 ........ After Musk left he took his money with him, which forced OpenAI to become a private company in order to successfully raise funds. OpenAI became a for-profit company in March 2019. .......... Some people are utilizing ChatGPT to write code and even start businesses ...... Tesla is working on powerful AI tech. Tesla requires complex software to run its so-called “Full Self-Driving” capability, though it’s still imperfect and has been the subject of numerous safety investigations.......... Tesla is working on powerful AI tech. Tesla requires complex software to run its so-called “Full Self-Driving” capability, though it’s still imperfect and has been the subject of numerous safety investigations......... Musk has had no problem with deploying beta software in Tesla cars that essentially make everyone on the road a beta tester, whether they’ve signed up for it or not. ............ the Future of Life Institute is primarily funded by the Musk Foundation. ......... Musk was perfectly happy with developing artificial intelligence tools at a breakneck speed when he was funding OpenAI. But now that he’s left OpenAI and has seen it become the frontrunner in a race for the most cutting edge tech to change the world, he wants everything to pause for six months. If I were a betting man, I’d say Musk thinks he can push his engineers to release their own advanced AI on a six month timetable. It’s not any more complicated than that. .
A Guy Is Using ChatGPT to Turn $100 Into a Business Making as Much Money as Possible. Here Are the First 4 Steps the AI Chatbot Gave Him.
"TLDR I'm about to be rich." ........ "You have $100, and your goal is to turn that into as much money as possible in the shortest time possible, without doing anything illegal," Greathouse Fall wrote, adding that he would be the "human counterpart" and "do everything" that the chatbot instructed him to do. ......... he managed to raise $1,378.84 in funds for his company in just one day ....... The company is now valued at $25,000, according to a tweet by Greathouse Fall. As of Monday, he said that his business had generated $130 in revenue ....... First, ChatGPT suggested that he should buy a website domain name for roughly $10, as well as a site-hosting plan for around $5 per month — amounting to a total cost of $15......... ChatGPT suggested that he should use the remaining $85 in his budget for website and content design. It said that he should focus on a "profitable niche with low competition," listing options like specialty kitchen gadgets and unique pet supplies. He went with eco-friendly products. ......... Step three: "Leverage social media" ....... Once the website was made, ChatGPT suggested that he should share articles and product reviews on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, and on online community platforms such as Reddit to engage potential customers and drive website traffic......... asking it for prompts he could feed into the AI image-generator DALL-E 2 ........ he had ChatGPT write the site's first article ........ Next, he followed the chatbot's recommendation to spend $40 of the remaining budget on Facebook and Instagram advertisements to target users interested in sustainability and eco-friendly products........ Step four was to "optimize for search engines" ....... making SEO-friendly blog posts ........ By the end of the first day, he said he secured $500 in investments. ....... his "DMs are flooded" and that he is "not taking any more investors unless the terms are highly favorable." .
DMs are flooded.
Cash on hand: $1,378.84 ($878.84 previous balance + $500 new investment)
The company is currently valued at $25,000, considering the recent $500 investment for 2%.
Not taking any more investors unless the terms are highly favorable.
This week's pod is about how one tweet about ChatGPT changed @jacksonfall's life
- Generated 20m+ impressions - Went from an unknown designer in Oklahoma City to being on CNN - Grew from 2k to 100k followers on Twitter in 7 days - Started a "HustleGPT" movement - And how he…
A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks Misinformation, labor impact, and safety are all risks. But not in the way the letter implies....... We agree that misinformation, impact on labor, and safety are three of the main risks of AI. Unfortunately, in each case, the letter presents a speculative, futuristic risk, ignoring the version of the problem that is already harming people.
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter "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?" ....... creating disinformation is not enough to spread it. Distributing disinformation is the hard part ........... LLMs are not trained to generate the truth; they generate plausible-sounding statements. But users could still rely on LLMs in cases where factual accuracy is important. ......... CNET used an automated tool to draft 77 news articles with financial advice. They later found errors in 41 of the 77 articles.
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show, Sundar Pichai talks to us about the risks and potential of AI — and says the model powering Bard is getting an upgrade next week https://t.co/wXa56NVmQ8
India is hunting for new spyware with a lower profile than the controversial Pegasus system with rival surveillance software makers preparing bid. https://t.co/qMisAlXd7a
I worry that an unintended side effect of locking down these models is that we are training humans to be mean to AIs and gaslight them in order to bypass the safeties. I am not sure this is good for the humans, or that it will be good for GPT-5. pic.twitter.com/49gh0vvvY9
My biggest issue with the moratorium, if it were to happen?
It would mean that I would have to wait *six* extra months to say “I told you so”, when we found out that GPT-5 continued to do stupid stuff like this. pic.twitter.com/qlXfCxZ36W
GPT-1: A New Autocomplete Hope GPT-2: Autocomplete Strikes Back GPT-3: Return of the Autocomplete GPT-4: The Autocomplete Menace GPT-5: Attack of the Autocomplete GPT-6: Revenge of the Autocomplete GPT-7: The Autocomplete Awakens
well, imagine you do something like this: give it a goal, put it in a loop, with all of the power of chatgpt plugins, and with gpt5 instead: https://t.co/R3lE2LYl5M
OpenAI just launched GPT-4 this month but new reports suggest GPT-5 could arrive before the end of 2023. Here's what we know so far: https://t.co/Jy1jv7qhnD
The moon is just the right size, at just the right distance to make earth stable enough for life. How delicate! And precious. The universe is vast so you may do the math on life on earth.
“No one cared. No reporter even thought YC was interesting. They wouldn’t even call me back. But we just kept moving forward, little by little, not caring what people thought about us.”@jesslivingston on co-founding @ycombinator
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 1, 2023
One difference between worry about AI and worry about other kinds of technologies (e.g. nuclear power, vaccines) is that people who understand it well worry more, on average, than people who don't. That difference is worth paying attention to.