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OPEN-AI / CHATGPT ChatGPT has captured the public imagination in a way the tech world hasn't seen since the debut of the iPhone in 2007. 
Illustration of an asterisks with radial circles, arrows, and circles surrounding it. Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Original article: https://www.axios.com/2023/01/24/chatgpt-openai-iphone-boom Peter Burgess COMMENTARY I am a fairly intelligent person ... not a genius by any measure, nor a complete dunce. So how does ChatGPT compare with me? Compared to me, ChatGPT is superfast and is able to answer questions about most anything almost instantly. Compared to me, ChatGPT can answer questions on many more different subjects than I can and do it in a reasonably convincing manner I have tried to document my own thinking about the way the world works on a website with the URL TrueValueMetrics.org (TVM). When I prompt ChatGPT to take TVM into consideration the response seems to relate quite well to the TVM view, but there are indications that it is influenced by views outside what is documented on the TVM website. This is not obvious, but quite frequently ChatGPT is bringing in ideas that are in the same subject area but not actually documented in TVM. While TVM is not by any stretch of the imaginaton 'big data' there are probably around 60,000 webpages that make up the TVM website and describe the way the world works ... he global socio-enviro-economic system ... in a comprehensive coherent manner, ar, at any rate, something better than the simplistic view through the 'profit' lens that has dominated economic analysis sinee the advent of the industrial revolution are arguably perhaps a lot longer. There is talk of 'training' ChatGPT. I am not sure what that means. If it means that a million views of a piece of 'wrong' information makes the information more 'right' than one view of 'right' information, I would expect for ChatGPT to become a force for incompetence rather quickly ... and perhaps it is already there. My rather amateur efforts to 'train' ChatGPT have progressed some ... but I don't seem to make progress beyond a quite simplistic stage. For example, where TVM has 6 points about some matter, ChatGPT seems to quit as soon as it gets to 4 points. From time to time ChatGPT picks up one point from TVM and then goes off pulling in somewhat related material from other sources some of which are diametrically opposite to the TVM (my) point of view, though perhaps widely held. My early conclusion is that ChatGPT is very fascinating ... but most likely to be co-opted to the interests of the rich and powerful in ways that are even more damaging than other technology has been over the past several decades. We need to be very careful in order to get a positive outcome from the ChatGPT innovation and it has to be said, most of the world's political and business leadership is not up to this challenge, intellectually, experientially and morally. Peter Burgess | ||
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How ChatGPT became the next big thing
ChatGPT has captured the public imagination in a way the tech world hasn't seen since the debut of the iPhone in 2007. Written by Erica Pandey .. Dan Primack ... Ina Fried AXIOS Technology Jan 24, 2023 Why it matters: Most of us are only now getting a glimpse of just how smart artificial intelligence has become. It's awe-inducing — and terrifying. When ChatGPT launched to the public, it proved to be much more advanced than even many in the tech industry had expected. What it is: ChatGPT is a free (for now) site that lets users pose questions and give directions to a bot that can answer with conversation, term papers, sonnets, recipes — almost anything. In almost any style you specify. The big picture: The possibilities for ChatGPT seem endless. It recently passed all three parts of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination, although just barely, as part of a research experiment. You can tell the chatbot you're a gluten-free lover of Italian food and it'll spit out a meal plan and grocery list for you in seconds. Everyone seems to see an array of uses for the technology in ways that are both exciting and scary. It might one day handle complex tasks better and more efficiently than humans have ever been able to. And it might lead us to dark places we can't even anticipate yet. How it works: Most software is specifically coded to do certain tasks. If the programmer didn't think of it, the software doesn't do it. Generative AI programs like ChatGPT, though, can create unique content in response to user prompts. ChatGPT, developed by a company called OpenAI, uses text as both its input and output. Other systems — including another OpenAI product, called DALL·E — can generate images from a text prompt. Google and Meta are working on similar technologies. Anyone can use ChatGPT for free via a simple web interface, although there's talk of OpenAI planning to launch a paid version, and it has licensed many of its technologies to Microsoft to sell to businesses. Between the lines: Researchers have been working on generative AI for a long time. In fact, OpenAI itself is already more than 7 years old.
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