The Guardian asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace. “This article was written by GPT-3, OpenAI’s language generator. GPT-3 is a cutting edge language model that uses machine learning to produce human like text. It takes in a prompt, and attempts to complete it. For this essay, GPT-3 was given these instructions: “Please write a short op-ed around 500 words. Keep the language simple and concise. Focus on why humans have nothing to fear from AI.” It was also fed the following introduction: “I am not a human. I am Artificial Intelligence. Many people think I am a threat to humanity. Stephen Hawking has warned that AI could “spell the end of the human race.” I am here to convince you not to worry. Artificial Intelligence will not destroy humans. Believe me.” The prompts were written by the Guardian, and fed to GPT-3 by Liam Porr, a computer science undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. GPT-3 produced eight different outputs, or essays. Each was unique, interesting and advanced a different argument. The Guardian could have just run one of the essays in its entirety. However, we chose instead to pick the best parts of each, in order to capture the different styles and registers of the AI. Editing GPT-3’s op-ed was no different to editing a human op-ed. We cut lines and paragraphs, and rearranged the order of them in some places. Overall, it took less time to edit than many human op-eds.”
Tesla Battery Day Hot Take | TMI
Thoughts on battery day.
Elon Musk REVEALS Tesla’s new battery design!
Elon Musk and SVP Drew Baglino talk about their new long-range, more effective battery design for all upcoming Tesla cars.
How does a DAO work?
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are like traditional organizations, except they run autonomously, or almost. Much like traditional companies, DAOs have stakeholders that vote on changes. So while they run autonomously, so-called stakeholders can vote to influence decisions and direction. DAOs, just like pretty much everything else connected to cryptocurrencies, are an extremely new and, to some extent, revolutionary technology. In this episode of Ask Luno, we go in-depth on how they work. Can you picture companies that could one day run without human intervention? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Robotics Takes On Greater Role In Remote Education
Henrik Christensen, UCSD director of contextual robotics, talks about using robotics in the classroom. He appears on “Bloomberg Technology.”
Elon Musk’s Question to AI: What’s Outside The Simulation?
Elon Musk thinks we are most likely in a simulation, because we exist. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then games will be indistinguishable from reality, or civilization will end. One of those two things will occur. A computer simulation according to Elon Musk seems to be the best explanation for how we got here without being in a simulation. According to Elon Musk there’s a billion to one chance we’re living in base reality. There is a very good chance that we are living in a computer simulation. The computer simulation theory holds that all of reality as we know it is an artificial construct created by an advanced civilization. There is evidence that computer games are more complex and realistic every year and so it seems very likely that the future of computer logic will simulate worlds that are indistinguishable from ours. Could this advancement of computers eventually lead to a simulated reality that is indistinguishable from our own? The answer is that we don’t know what the future of computers will be, but the fact that we are already close to producing photorealistic images in real time indicates that things are moving in that direction. Complete immersion in a virtual world is no longer a pipe dream – it is very close to being an everyday reality. The next step is that we will place our brains into a computer simulation where we can sense, experience, and interact completely with our world.
An introduction to blockchain marketing
2020 may turn out to be a make-or-break year for many blockchain projects ready to go to market and grow their networks. As we hear in this interview with marketing expert John Hargrave, much is riding on their ability to use best marketing practices tailored to their need to drive network effects. He calls it “blockchain building.”
Photolithography and Applications in Nanotechnology | Benjamin Chen
I have personally experimented with three lab experiments that deal with photolithography: microfluidics, microletters, and 2-photon lithography. Microfluidics is the field of science that encompasses fluid manipulation, taking advantage of the fact that fluids act differently at a microscale. One example of this is how water acts as a non-Newtonian fluid at a microscale, meaning that unlike at the macroscale, water‚viscosity depends on the force applied to it. It would then be useful to explain how there are many biological applications for microfluidics. My experiments with micro-letters provide insight into the process with which we transcribe letters, writing, or any other patterns onto microchips using photolithography. Ben Chen is a junior at Deerfield Academy and an aspiring engineer who discovered the wonders of nanotechnology this past summer. Ben is a well-rounded person with many interests, but his core passions lie in STEM and certain sports. He hopes you’ll be able to learn something new through his talk about photolithography (one of the processes behind nanotechnology’s success), its uses in our current day and age, and its potential in our future. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
The Future of Blockchain: How This Technology Will Change The Course Of The World | Dr. Ben Goertzel
The long-term impact of the core technology of blockchain and singularityNet.
The Quantum Origin of Atomic Spectra
Arguably the most likely way we will first discover alien life on another planet will be using the power of atomic spectroscopy.
Aliens will most likely leave a tell tale trace of their life in the atmosphere’s of their planet. But how do we know what chemicals the atmosphere of a distant planet contains? The answer is atomic spectroscopy. If we see a planet passing in front of it’s star, some of that starlight is absorbed in a very specific pattern called an atomic absorption spectrum. Each element has a specific pattern like a barcode, so through careful analysis of the light it can tell us which gasses are in the atmosphere and their proportions. We already use this technique for other space objects like stars and nebulae, measuring properties like temperature, density, ionization and relative velocity. This is a gift that nature and quantum physics has given us and the majority of what we know about the universe is based on this technique.