This has probably been the most eventful month that I’ve had for a long time.
Giving myself the tactical stress of a hard deadline has been fun and invigorating… albeit mixed with the occasional anxieties.
I had been stuck in neutral for quite a while with the handbrake on. The decision to just go and do it, is starting to have ripple effects in ways that I didn’t really imagine.
The one thing I’ve noticed is how insane the demand is for information on AI. The uptake of ChatGPT must be unrivalled in market history (beyond software) and it boggles the mind that effectively one product is so versatile that everyone is using it in their own way.
I’d like to know how much of the available information we have actually trained it on now. I imagine somewhere there is a copy of a model which has actually been trained on all the copyrighted material the AI companies can find. If you were Google or Microsoft with all their infinite data – everyones emails, work… all the software code, all the books … all the websites … they must have a copy that is actually trained on everything; just not released that to the public.
Then there’s doubtless the military and intelligence agencies which would have had this technology for way longer. How far are they down the road with this? Backdoor into Facebook, link it with all the other data they have, and suddenly you can mimic every person … you can synthesise insights over scale.
That’s not even beginning to mention the robots that are coming down the pipeline…
More to come over next few weeks…
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