India’s Population Surpasses China’s, Shifting the World’s ‘Center of Gravity’ - WSJ
My Thoughts on ChatGPT - Cal Newport
Cal Newport summarizes his own New Yorker article.
Cal Newport on ChatGPT
What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have? - The New Yorker
Full graduate theses can and will be written on any one of these topics. None of this jargon is needed, however, to grasp the basics of what’s happening inside systems like ChatGPT. A user types a prompt into a chat interface; this prompt is transformed into a big collection of numbers, which are then multiplied against the billions of numerical values that define the program’s constituent neural networks, creating a cascade of frenetic math directed toward the humble goal of predicting useful words to output next. The result of these efforts might very well be jaw-dropping in its nuance and accuracy, but behind the scenes its generation lacks majesty. The system’s brilliance turns out to be the result less of a ghost in the machine than of the relentless churning of endless multiplications.
It’s a miracle!
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Think different
Here’s to the crazy ones.
- The misfits
- The rebels
- The troublemakers
The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.