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weekend ai reads for 2023-03-24
🏗️ FOUNDATIONS
Obviously leading with https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun
A.I. Versus M.D.: What happens when diagnosis is automated? Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker
I found this through my old bookmarks (2017!).
GPT-4: A Copilot for the Mind Dan Shipper, Chain of Thought
related link: Rewind, below
Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 arXiv
This Changes Everything Ezra Klein, New York Times
🎓 EDUCATION and AI
"At the recent AI+Education Summit, Stanford researchers, students, and industry leaders discussed both the potential of AI to transform education for the better and the risks at play." Stanford University
Related to the Paul LeBlanc article from last week, a paper called "GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models" Easy to read tables. arXiv
Our findings indicate that approximately 80% of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10% of their work tasks affected by the introduction of GPTs, while around 19% of workers may see at least 50% of their tasks impacted.
📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY
The Case for Causal AI Stanford Social Innovation Review
if you want to understand the math behind this, check out section 4 of this PDF ... and let me know when you can tutor me.
Using Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawings (not drawings, but instructions for drawings; JPG example) to compare GPT-3.5 to GPT-4.
Spoiler: GPT-4 is better? Also: beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
ChatGPT can’t access the internet, even though it really looks like it can Simon Willison
"Algorithmic Black Swans" by Noam Kolt at University of Toronto
🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS
Theta Noir: A techno-optimist, visionary collective devoted to exploring the co-evolution of humanity with advanced forms of machine intelligence.
I feel weird sharing this because a) I don't understand it and b) the parts I do seem closer to Heaven's Gate than anything else I can think of. But interesting to me because I haven't read a lot about how AI may impact people's belief systems.
A service no one asked for but a great domain name. It's an anonymous group chat (already sketchy) with Chat-GPT thrown in to further complicate things.
Bookmarking for later; also will be outdated in 3 months, give or take: a script for my 5yo to talk to ChatGPT