^{Monthly Archive} February 2023

Gary N. Smith, who writes frequently for Mind Matters News, was interviewed for a recent article from The Daily Beast on the developing AI “arms race” among tech giants like Microsoft and Google. Because of the success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, tech companies are scrambling to adjust and compete. Microsoft announced that it is now incorporating ChatGPT into its search engine, and Google advertised its AI alternative “Bard,” which they also plan to integrate with their browser. This comes just a couple of months after the revelation of ChatGPT-3, which saw several million users within the first week of its existence. Smith commented, “Big companies don’t want to miss the next big thing, and startups want to cash in on unrestrained Read More ›

Here is a quick overview of how ChatGPT operates under the hood. This will make it easier to spot suspicious behavior. The following is at a very high level.  For the gory details, see the following two guides: – The Illustrated GPT-2 (Visualizing Transformer Language Models) – Jay Alammar – Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time. (jalammar.github.io) – The GPT-3 Architecture, on a Napkin (dugas.ch) What is ChatGPT? Let’s start with what ChatGPT is. ChatGPT is a kind of machine learning algorithm known as a neural network. To understand what a neural network is, recall your algebra classes. You remember being given a set of equations and being told to solve for some variables. Then you learned you Read More ›