>unless it's something of actual physical substance.

The way the world is going, pew-pews etc might be a good physical substance to invest in.

Hold your horses!

Research has shown that excessively large contexts disrupt the model performance.

That said, I have no idea where the token size boundary between amazing and broken is.

>as noted in the title.

Doh!

I thought that the F-22 got up to 50,000 feet and the missile climbed the remaining 10,000 feet?

This photo show the plane at 60,000 ft or more ....

The shadow cast onto the balloon is all a bit too perfect.

Note: technically, the F-22 can reach 60,000+ ft in some circumstances

Well, it seems that they had a budget of around $100 for the Paris launch of their Bard AI.

If Google are working on it, it will already be very advanced - but hidden in a back room.

They won't launch any products using the technology, just in case it disrupts their search income.

However, one day someone else will launch a related product .. and then Google will set up an emergency competitive product launch in Paris.

Google will spend at least $100 on this launch and will not actually show anything interesting.

>The genie is out of the bottle, there's zero chance just two or three companies will get to keep it. Every billionaire worth their salt is focusing heavily on the AI field right now

Agreed .. but these big firms will all do their darndest to 'tax' the population's use of AI.

And suppose all parts of such systems and related activities are declared illegal - or even terrorist devices?

The media are in the government's and big corporations' pockets .. I can just imagine the steady propaganda against "dangerous private AI" they could pump out.

They are in a deep sulk about OpenAI getting all the kudos and publicity.

On top of that, they are getting beaten up by Alphabet to produce something which looks good in the media.

Their main task recently has been to throw mud at OpenAI and ChatGPT.
I suppose they want to slow them down with "concerns about safety" whilst Google tries to duct tape its AI systems into a working chat system.

OpenAI's very successful launch of ChatGPT seems to have upset quite a lot of others in the AI sector .. especially those who are usually in the media spotlight.

All that said, it now seems that OpenAI have succumbed to external pressures and have been brought back into line. They have delayed the release of GPT-4 "on safety grounds".

They are also now suggesting that AI systems, hardware, training, models etc should be regulated .. again for "safety".

Being a cynic, I think that OpenAI, Google (and the US government?) have done a deal. They will retain control of the AI platforms, thus becoming a duopoly.

Startups etc will be encouraged - but will of course have to source their AI power from the big boys.

Open Source etc AI systems will be blocked .. due to "safety issues".

High power AI GPUs will only be available to the big boys.

Getty Images, Shutterstock and the like will do licensing deals with the duopoly .. but Open Source systems will be sued for Copyright infringement.

The US government will be happy with all this : they can control the AI systems if required.

Anyway, that's the way I see things turning out.

Take a look at Stephen Wolframs recent article: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

It's a long, technical read .. but well worth the effort.

It's clear that ChatGPT is something more than just a calculator or look-up table of word probabilities.

Maybe not sentience, but certainly something brain-like is going on.

The only issue for me was/is that it screws up basic arithmetic.

when we will stop speaking to the dead and start speaking to
the living.

I can imagine someone creating a sparkling shell program or system sitting on top of the huge dead mass of the ChatGPT system.

With short and medium term memory added, plus maybe some smaller neural networks, we may end up with a more chatty system.

Yep.

I imagine ChatGPT as a probe inserted into the dead body of a genius.

Scientists have found that you can inject questions into the pickled brain, which then responds.

But there is nobody at home.

You. Don't. Get. It.

More and more people are aware of it ... but I think very few have used it.

Of the users, very few have used it enough to become aware of what it can do.

You need to be fairly computer-literate - and dare I say imaginative - to evaluate it ... and more importantly, the potential of the technology.

The technology will advance for ever .. and as Asimov's Multivac once said: "Forever is a long time."

PROLOG, LISP, Lua may be candidates.

Many people here do not lead content lives, so they turn to AI and other technologies

I have suspected for years that humanity is lonely .. hence the endless yearning for aliens or AI.

... and then the FBI drops by for a chat ...

Does it matter?

The situation is so busy & so fluid ... and shrouded too ... that we can have no real idea.

Also, the situation could be totally different in a year or so.

The 'busy' core stuff will be written in a low level high efficiency language.

Is this a useful question?

Just a bad loser.

Move right along - nothing to see here.

The whole of the web will soon be just AI generated content.

Students should declare use of AI tools.

Educators should accept - ideally encourage - AI tool use.

That was quite disturbing.

Talking to dead people - in a realistic manner.

Does The Turing Test allow conversations with dead people?