March 2023
Intermediate to advanced
10 pages
11m
English
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March 7, 2023
The past month’s news has again been dominated by AI–specifically large language models–specifically ChatGPT and Microsoft’s AI-driven search engine, Bing/Sydney. While there are well-known ways to make ChatGPT misbehave, it’s puzzling that Sydney was initially abusive and insulting to users who questioned its correctness, even when Sydney was clearly wrong. (It has now been restrained.) Whether intentional or not (and, when I wear my tin foil hat, I suspect that it’s intentional), Bing/Sydney’s users became part of an experiment in how humans react to an AI that’s gone rogue.
Programmers have largely become comfortable with tools like GitHub Copilot; it saves time and effort, and few people feel that their jobs are threatened. The startup Fixie.ai aims to change that: founder Matt Welsh says that programming as we know it is over, and in the future, no one will need to write code. (However, humans will still need to write specifications and tests–which may be another kind of programming.)
Artificial Intelligence
- Facebook/Meta has announced a large language model called LLaMA that is 1/10th the size of GPT-3 and can run on a single GPU, but claims equivalent performance. A stripped-down version of LLaMA is available on GitHub.
- ChatGPT has told many users that OpenCage, a company that provides a geocoding service, offers an API for converting phone ...
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