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Notes on The Turing Lectures: "What is generative AI?"

  The Turing Lectures: What is generative AI? Generative - create new content (audio, code, images, text, video) Artificial Intelligence - automatically using a computer program  "a lot of myth about it, its just a tool", "we have to spell it out" Generative AI is not a new concept. Google translate (17 yo) is an example of generative AI. Another example is Apples Siri (11yo), another generative AI.  Phone autocomplete or Google search autocomplete Not that new so "what is the fuss"? Answer:  chatGpt was launched.  chatGpt is a lot more sophisticated than older AIs.  You can have a conversation. The technology is not extremely new. It uses language modeling. Given a context, the language model can predict e.g. context: "I want to" prediction: play, eat, shovel AIs used to count to predict but latest use Neural Networks. Feed context (prompt text) into neural language model which predicts the answer. Basic steps to build a language model: Step 1.

a unified theory

  What a well written and thoughtful post A unified theory of  " That’s what work is, after all. Work—the action of change, the movement of energy from one being to another—is the means by which fucks are granted.  Good work is the art of giving a fuck about the living.  And all of us, every day, are faced with good work that needs doing, and good work that we can do."