a new version of moore’s law that could start soon: the amount of intelligence in the universe doubles every 18 months
@sama
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Understanding Technology History as Continuous Knowledge Revolution
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the proper way to understand the history of technology is not four separate technological revolutions but a single big continuous revolution enabled by the ability, and the desire, to figure things out and to compound that knowledge
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Science Works Unexpectedly Engineering Fails Expectedly
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science is when it works but shouldn’t, engineering is when it doesn’t work but should
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Prompt Engineering: High-Leverage Natural Language Programming Skill
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writing a really great prompt for a chatbot persona is an amazingly high-leverage skill and an early example of programming in a little bit of natural language
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OpenAI Recruits Engineers for Unprecedented AI Impact
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great engineers can have more impact on the trajectory of AI than ever before. if you like making computers do amazing things at unprecedented scale and with unprecedented difficulty, please consider joining OpenAI!
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AI Ethics in Classic Literature: Roald Dahl Editing Controversy
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it's about roald dahl and editing old books…
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Understanding AI Tools Adoption and Societal Co-evolution
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having time to understand what’s happening, how people want to use these tools, and how society can co-evolve is critical.
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Institutions Must Prepare Regulation for Advanced AI Systems
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we also need enough time for our institutions to figure out what to do. regulation will be critical and will take time to figure out; although current-generation AI tools aren’t very scary, i think we are potentially not that far away from potentially scary ones.
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Society needs time to adapt to major technological transitions
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a transition like this is mostly good, and can happen somewhat fast—the transition from the pre-smartphone world to post-smartphone world is a recent example. but it’ll be tempting to go super quickly, which is frightening—society needs time to adapt to something so big.
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ChatGPT Bias Challenges and User Psychological Impact
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there will be more challenges like bias (we don’t want ChatGPT to be pro or against any politics by default, but if you want either then it should be for you; working on this now) and people coming away unsettled from talking to a chatbot, even if they know what’s really going on