A week of AI
The world is changing so quickly, I figured I’d write a bit about it. It’s only about a decade ago that deep learning started to be used widely but it’s been advancing rapidly since then. The pace of news in just the last two weeks has been breathtaking and it’s not slowing down. I remember mentioning to people a week ago that services like ChatGPT will become even more powerful if they can connect to other services, and now that’s here:
Chat GPT plugins -We’re also hosting two plugins ourselves, a web browser and code interpreter.
ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers” - I see what’s happening now as a historic moment. For well over half a century the statistical and symbolic approaches to what we might call “AI” evolved largely separately. But now, in ChatGPT + Wolfram they’re being brought together.
WolframAlpha was originally hyped up as being able to solve anything from regular English input, but it actually required very precise input which limited its functionality. Looks like that promise has now come true!
GPT-4 is really good at taking tests, humanity’s previous measure of human intelligence. Bryan Caplan (who generally has an excellent betting record) made a bet in January 2023 “that no AI would be able to get A’s on 5 out of 6 of my exams by January of 2029.” It’s been just over 2 months since then and GPT-4 already got an A!
New products are launching rapidly. Recently both Microsoft and Google announced generative AI integrations with their Office suites, and Adobe announced Firefly, a art-generating AI tool. Open-source AI is also advancing rapidly, as Facebook releases LLaMA and Standford built a version of ChatGPT on it.
This post was written without ChatGPT but using tools like it will soon be widespread. Stay tuned for more!