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Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4's capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system.   Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have been developing and refining large language models (LLMs) that exhibit remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. The latest model developed by OpenAI, GPT-4, was trained using an unprecedented scale of compute and data. In this paper, we report on our investigation of an early version of GPT-4, when it was still in active development...

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Attosecond Optical Switching enables optical computers to run a million times faster than silicon

Attosecond Optical Switching enables optical computers to run a million times faster than silicon

"This promises to increase the limiting speed of data processing and information encoding and open a new realm of information technology." -Mohamed Hassan  Imagine a home computer operating 1 million times faster than the most expensive hardware on the market. Now imagine that level of computing power as the industry standard. University of Arizona researchers hope to pave the way for that reality using light-based optical computing, a marked improvement from the semiconductor-based transistors that currently run the world. "Semiconductor-based transistors are in all of the electronics that we use today," said Mohammed Hassan, assistant professor of physics and optical sciences....

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Intuition Pumps: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Dignity of Being Wrong and Art-Science of Making Fertile Mistakes

Intuition Pumps: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Dignity of Being Wrong and Art-Science of Making Fertile Mistakes

“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them — especially not from yourself.” Echoing Dorion Sagan’s case for why science and philosophy need each other, Dennett begins with an astute contribution to the best definitions of philosophy, wrapped in a necessary admonition about the value of history: The history of philosophy is in large measure the history of very smart people making very tempting mistakes, and if you don’t know the history, you are doomed to making the same darn mistakes all over again. … There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been...

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What you need to know about multimodal language models

What you need to know about multimodal language models

This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. OpenAI has released GPT-4, the latest edition of its flagship large language model (LLM). And though few details are available, what we do know is that it will be a “multimodal” LLM, according to a Microsoft executive who spoke at a company event last week. Basically, multimodal LLMs combine text with other kinds of information, such as images, videos, audio, and other sensory data. Multimodality can solve some of the problems of the current generation of LLMs. Multimodal language models will also unlock new...

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Jordan Peterson – 8 Lessons Men Learn Too Late In Life

Jordan Peterson – 8 Lessons Men Learn Too Late In Life

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