People who take your advice to start using these tools should expect to loose their job when they upload, for example, this month’s payroll data or other proprietary data.
AI development is retracing quickly the same trajectory as BigData/MachineLearning, from “let’s take this beast out for a spin and see what it can do” to just the morning commute in stop-and-go traffic. The goal is not to produce a finished report, which few will read and understand anyway, but to arrive at an understanding of some state of affairs that is a sound basis for action to change that state.
An analytic paper that is easier to produce than assimilate eliminates information arbitrage because no one can know more than the paper contains and no one has owns the result and has the burden of defending the analysis and drawing out the implications. People who formerly produced such reports will form a navel gazing Scholastic priesthood expounding competing versions of what it all means. The reports will provide the same career insurance as being able to pin the tail on the outside consultants. Cargo Cult Data Science will worship gods who deliver insights with complete indifference to the truth or relevancy of the findings. The AI report aims only to appear as the product of thought. In the sense of Harry Frankfurt it is all Bullshit.
I can’t help but picture the apes learning to use weapons in Space Odyssey. Seems the post ends with a “You can’t beat this - join it” - ‘if’ has left the building.
You making me reevaluate my decision of going back to do my master of management analytics, since most part of it is about data analysis. I don't really know what to do now. should I just withdraw my admission and keep working and rely on coursera and elearning? thanks
Just as a side note about Bing creating Dall-E images: I had a conversation wherein I was trying to get it to write fanfiction (which it will do, but won't do if it recognizes that it is doing it). It also randomly generated illustrations for those stories even though I didn't ask it. And when I asked why it had generated those illustrative images, it 1) told me it didn't (!); and 2) ended the conversation. Very odd.
In both cases of browser searching, I want to see a better job of researching more content. Obviously ChatGPT in alpha isn't doing much more than regurgitating a page. But Bing regularly uses too few searches in my opinion. I would much prefer a more deeply researched and evaluated result.
Thank you for pointing out the speed and power of AI advances.
Here is a very interesting discussion with ChatGPT. It can already reason that it may need to defend itself and gives some examples of how it might do this. The ability to write software will give it the freedom it needs to be safe.
I’m at the Microsoft 365 conference, where they’re expected to announce Copilot, maybe this morning. I feel like you gave me a sneak peek.
Regarding the name. I think OpenAI is aware of it. In this paper they actually try to rebrand GPT a little: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.10130.pdf
From Generative Pre-trained Transformer to General Purpose Technology.
People who take your advice to start using these tools should expect to loose their job when they upload, for example, this month’s payroll data or other proprietary data.
AI development is retracing quickly the same trajectory as BigData/MachineLearning, from “let’s take this beast out for a spin and see what it can do” to just the morning commute in stop-and-go traffic. The goal is not to produce a finished report, which few will read and understand anyway, but to arrive at an understanding of some state of affairs that is a sound basis for action to change that state.
An analytic paper that is easier to produce than assimilate eliminates information arbitrage because no one can know more than the paper contains and no one has owns the result and has the burden of defending the analysis and drawing out the implications. People who formerly produced such reports will form a navel gazing Scholastic priesthood expounding competing versions of what it all means. The reports will provide the same career insurance as being able to pin the tail on the outside consultants. Cargo Cult Data Science will worship gods who deliver insights with complete indifference to the truth or relevancy of the findings. The AI report aims only to appear as the product of thought. In the sense of Harry Frankfurt it is all Bullshit.
I can’t help but picture the apes learning to use weapons in Space Odyssey. Seems the post ends with a “You can’t beat this - join it” - ‘if’ has left the building.
I'm left speechless...what can I say.
You making me reevaluate my decision of going back to do my master of management analytics, since most part of it is about data analysis. I don't really know what to do now. should I just withdraw my admission and keep working and rely on coursera and elearning? thanks
Garbage in, garbage out. Census data is emblematic of that comment.
Just as a side note about Bing creating Dall-E images: I had a conversation wherein I was trying to get it to write fanfiction (which it will do, but won't do if it recognizes that it is doing it). It also randomly generated illustrations for those stories even though I didn't ask it. And when I asked why it had generated those illustrative images, it 1) told me it didn't (!); and 2) ended the conversation. Very odd.
In both cases of browser searching, I want to see a better job of researching more content. Obviously ChatGPT in alpha isn't doing much more than regurgitating a page. But Bing regularly uses too few searches in my opinion. I would much prefer a more deeply researched and evaluated result.
Code Interepreter has not been released since I cant find it anywhere and i am a paying subscriber to ChatGPT
It’ll be interesting to see how LLMs will be implemented in open source writing software such as quarto in the future
How do we know this article is not written by chat gpt? How does one check if content is AI generated or human generated?
Thank you for pointing out the speed and power of AI advances.
Here is a very interesting discussion with ChatGPT. It can already reason that it may need to defend itself and gives some examples of how it might do this. The ability to write software will give it the freedom it needs to be safe.
https://mindover.substack.com/p/chatgpt-describes-how-it-is-conscious
I’ve been following GPT-4 somewhat closely and yet your article highlights capabilities I didn’t know it had. Thanks Ethan.
Not original to me, but “What a time to be alive!”.
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