Category: Technology and Computers

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ChatGPT Explained: A Normie’s Guide To How It Works

Probability Distributions and Token Windows

Once you understand a few core concepts, modern chatbots are less mysterious.

https://www.jonstokes.com/p/chatgpt-explained-a-guide-for-normies

Australian scientists have their hands on a groundbreaking supercomputer that aims to simulate the synapses of a human brain at full scale.

The neuromorphic supercomputer will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/human-brain-supercomputer-coming-in-2024

GPT-4’s performance may have dropped in December as it learned to do less work during the holidays

AGI Achieved ??? xD

OMG, the AI Winter Break Hypothesis may actually be true?

There was some idle speculation that GPT-4 might perform worse in December because it "learned" to do less work over the holidays.

Here is a statistically significant test showing that this may be true. LLMs are weird.🎅 https://t.co/mtCY3lmLFF

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) December 11, 2023

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2406746-google-says-its-gemini-ai-outperforms-both-gpt-4-and-expert-humans/

Okay let’s wait on some facts here. But now it’s starting to get interesting. Reuters already spreading AGI rumours. I doubt openAI has AGI, but they have something. If it’s actually AGI and Jimmy Apples was right, it’s gonna be wild.

According to one of the sources, long-time executive Mira Murati mentioned the project, called Q*, to employees on Wednesday and said that a letter was sent to the board prior to this weekend’s events.

After the story was published, an OpenAI spokesperson said Murati told employees what media were about to report, but she did not comment on the accuracy of the reporting.

The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q* (pronounced Q-Star), which some internally believe could be a breakthrough in the startup’s search for superintelligence, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), one of the people told Reuters. OpenAI defines AGI as AI systems that are smarter than humans.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/