Weekly Links, 07/14/2023
- An unexpected benefit of AIs is to translate the millions of ancient texts no human experts will ever get to. History will deepen, if not shift. New AI translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets instantly
- If you have noticed the ChatGPT has recently gotten “lazier and dumber” then you are not alone, and it may be because Open AI is decentralizing its system to reduce costs of operation. The world’s most powerful AI model suddenly got ‘lazier’ and ‘dumber.’ A radical redesign of OpenAI’s GPT-4 could be behind the decline in performance.
- Here is an excellent description of the challenges and mechanics of predicting whether AI will create an extinction event. AI experts are more inclined to say yes than prediction experts, who tend to be better predictors. An unusual way to figure out if humanity is toast
