… Computers are, at their core, incredibly dumb; a transistor, billions of which lie at the heart of the fastest chips in the world, are simple on-off switches, the state of which is represented by a 1 or a 0. What makes them useful is that they are dumb at incomprehensible speed; the Apple A16 in the current iPhone turns transistors on and off up to 3.46 billion times a second.
… It is mathematical logic that reduces all of math to a series of logical statements, which allows them to be computed using transistors.
… ChatGPT does great at the “human-like parts”, where there isn’t a precise “right answer”. But when it’s “put on the spot” for something precise, it often falls down. But the whole point here is that there’s a great way to solve this problem—by connecting ChatGPT to Wolfram|Alpha and all its computational knowledge “superpowers”.
… That’s exactly what OpenAI has done, by adding support for plug-ins to ChatGPT. Read More
Daily Archives: April 2, 2023
AI And The Great Bifurcation of 2024
What happens when physics constrains AI?
Today I want to write about what I believe will be the great bifurcation of late 2024 – the splitting of the economy into things that can advance with AI, and things that can’t.
… I believe we are making a dangerous mistake by extrapolating the speed of progress AI can have in a digital world to the speed of progress AI can have on the world in general. Think about this – even if you have the world’s smartest AI, 10x better than a human, there are still things that can’t get that much more productive. Read More