Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and Image Synthesis

Physics professor Philip Moriarity, stunned by the results when one of his students showed him ChatGPT’s solution to a problem from his second year quantum mechanics course, signed up for an account and tried submitting a variety of problems, mostly in physics, from examinations ranging from the British GCSE (high school qualification), A-Level (university entrance qualification), and university undergraduate courses. He examines the results, what they mean for students and teachers, and how (at least for the moment), instructors can mitigate the threat of ChatGPT in his blog post, “ChatGPT: Transforming Physics Education?”, and demonstrates ChatGPT attempting to solve the problems in the following Sixty Symbols video.

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Xavier Amatriain’s catalog of transformer models:
https://amatriain.net/blog/transformer-models-an-introduction-and-catalog-2d1e9039f376/

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ChatGPT, American football expert:

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Perhaps it would do better as a colour commentator.

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Kim Burrafato’s queries to ChatGPT

On Jan 21, 2023, at 7:52 PM, JACK SARFATTI jacksarfatti@icloud.com wrote:

:wink: pretty good, though not sure if “super radiance” is correct in that context.

On Jan 21, 2023, at 7:50 PM, Kim Burrafato lensman.kim.burrafato@gmail.com wrote:

Frohlich coherence refers to the concept that biological systems can exhibit long-range coherence or order in their behavior and structure as a result of the interaction of electromagnetic fields with biological molecules. The theory was first proposed by physicist Herbert Frohlich in the 1970s.

Frohlich proposed that biological systems, such as living cells, are able to maintain a state of long-range coherence by means of a process he called “superradiance.” In this process, the electromagnetic fields of biological molecules interact with each other in such a way as to create a collective behavior that is not present in individual molecules. This collective behavior is said to be responsible for the stability and function of biological systems.

The theory of Frohlich coherence is still considered as a hypothesis and it is not widely accepted by the scientific community. There is a limited amount of experimental evidence to support it and several criticisms have been made against it, such as the lack of direct observation of superradiance in biological systems.

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ChatGPT takes to the amateur radio waves!

Canadian radio amateur William Franzin, VE4VR, based on a suggestion by two U.S. amateurs in Seattle, built an interface that receives digital voice transmissions in the D-STAR protocol, processes them with a voice recognition engine to create text, submits the text as a prompt to ChatGPT, encodes the result with a text to speech tool, then transmits the audio back to the sender.

In the demonstration, ChatGPT is asked, over the radio, “What is the easiest way to get an amateur radio license?”.

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/28/tech/chatgpt-real-estate/index.html
This probably better suits “The Crazy Years” thread.

Recently, a client reached out to Asion with a problem: the woman had moved into a pre-construction home and couldn’t open her windows. She had attempted to contact the developer for months with no response. Asion ran a copy of one of her emails through ChatGPT, asking it to rewrite it with an emphasis on the liability implications.

“ChatGPT wrote it as a legal issue and all of a sudden, the developer showed up at her house,” he said.

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The Babylon Bee introduced a ChatGPT AOC article generator:

Perhaps they should create a George Santos article generator to keep up with reality:

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It’s only biased if it goes against the current highly biased official opinion.

It was kinda fun hitting refresh on the AOC article generator

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New report from David Rozado:

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Bad things happen when politics and AI mix:

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Competitive FUD or not?

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NPCs are so numerous that even though they scholastically nudge the world into The Abyss none of them can be held accountable for the goal of their collective behavior because they are all “individuals”. ChatGPT’s value to “The National Conversation” is that, unlike the swarm of NPCs it is an actual identity. Now, agreed, this doesn’t mean that it can be held accountable to any greater degree than can the corporate swarm sponsoring it (and similar LLMs), but at least it gets things one step closer to accountability for the corporate swarm – thence to the $ as World Reserve Currency feeding the entire hierarchy of insular contempt. It will take a while before people finally realize the WRC is a “resource curse” cultivating this hierarchy of insular contempt for Reality

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This is such an important observation. Game-theoretically, the downside of being inside a herd doing bad things is pretty small, and the downside of straying from the herd on average is pretty high.

It’s really important for leaders to properly establish an alternative herd by giving significant upside to the early followers:

I’m not sure there’s a good way of increasing the downside for the bad herd. Thoughts?

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Woke vs. nuke:

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#ChatNPC offers no opinions of its own of course, merely those of its corporate sponsors.

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Back when the Internet standards were the primary source of positive network externalities, things were closer to the situation portrayed in that TED talk. Movements emerged organically, which is what I predicted would happen way back in 1982 – the most prominent movement being Trump’s election by “The American Pioneer”. But I also predicted that there was a “tremendous danger” that the positive network externalities would be re-privatized leading to the nightmarish monopoly practices we see now emerging.

So now, we no longer have organic movements emerging as the network effect monopoly corporations have demonstrated, very publicly and in a way that is grotesquely obvious, their willingness and ability to punish very severely those who would “lead” the herd in a manner inconsistent with the existing hierarchy of incentives. Those incentives originate in the WRC centralized capture of the global economy’s positive network externalities by the Federal Reserve and its subsidiaries such as the US government and Wall Street.

The price must be paid by those at the top of the hierarchy, but by “those” I don’t refer to “individuals” but rather institutions. The “individuals” such as Jerome Powell, current Chair of the FR, while powerful compared to the NPC herd, are actually pretty powerless in absolute terms. Once institutions figure out how to insulate themselves from popular interests, and then take the resulting insularity a step further toward alignment of the populace with those institutions, you’re in a situation where the laws of physics and/or biology become more relevant than the laws of human nature.

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Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.

― Stewart Brand

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Call me the eternal optimist … I sincerely hope biology remains stronger than culture (or ideology). Though one can consider biology could also triumph via extinction of the ideologically possessed. That would not be fun.

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“Think of it as evolution in action.” — Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Oath of Fealty

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