It somehow transitioned from an open source non-profit to a closed source for-profit.
Elon is again a bit loose with the truth. The "somehow" still haunts him...obviously...
Elon was involved with OpenAI very early on (~2015/2016). He left the board in 2018. Here's the comment from OpenAIwhen he departed. " Elon Musk will depart the OpenAI Board but will continue to donate and advise the organization."
Elon had committed $1B to OpenAI, a non-profit and what was intended to be an open-source tool. At some point, he became unhappy with the progress and suggested that he should run the company. That was rejected, so he left the board. After leaving, Elon backed out of the commitment (ultimately giving $100M, but not enough to support the organization). The new board decided that they couldn't generate the necessary capital as an NFP, so they incorporated it in 2019. In 2020, Microsoft invested $1B.
$1B in 2019 for a company worth $30B today, or $42B last fall for a company worth $10B today (for stock option purposes, Elon valued the company at $20B this week) . Elon's investment decisions recently suggest he's not as smart as the press clippings he reads.
What's really interesting...OpenAI is the hottest company in the world right now, and the CEO has no equity. It's not the typical start-up.
Another interesting iteration in the scientific writing assignment was when I asked it to provide a reference list for the paper. It did, they were all fake. Real authors, real journals and books, just not the papers those authors had written. So, it gathers information but it really doesnât seem to know where it gets it from.
The secret sauce post below is an interesting recipe.
Yes. The ChatGPT recipe as outlined is all about getting a better result from the AI.
The same can be said of Google too - its often all in how you ask the question / conduct the search. We've all seen many people who can't manage to use the very basics of Google to find an answer to a question. I use Google, or other search engines multiple times a day. It's a skill like anything else. With the new emerging AIs , they're certain to make life easier for those who can't master Google - but again, they may also never master the AI.
Another interesting iteration in the scientific writing assignment was when I asked it to provide a reference list for the paper. It did, they were all fake. Real authors, real journals and books, just not the papers those authors had written. So, it gathers information but it really doesnât seem to know where it gets it from.
The secret sauce post below is an interesting recipe.
for anyone paying attention, this is it
asking better questions/prompts gets better answers
i heard the term "prompt engineer" as in we need
so there are prompt generators popping up everywhere
this tech is a tool and it generally will do what you ask (within reason)
you just need to know how to ask/tell it what you want (in its language/understanding)
I had planned to have students in a class write a short literature review on some physiographic provinces in western US. Have done this for a few years. First draft is typically pretty dreadful, then I edit/suggest and send back for final. Still often not that great (this is a common problem at many universities). So, I did the assignment with ChatGPT this morning. First draft was pretty good with some bogus info. I went back and told it to write a more scientific version. In less than 2 minutes I had a passable paper (it did not pass review by GPTzero however). I told it to rewrite as a scientific paper written by a human. GPTzero only detected about 40% of text as AI. I'm glad I'm retiring in a few weeks...
for anyone paying attention, this is it
asking better questions/prompts gets better answers
i heard the term "prompt engineer" as in we need
so there are prompt generators popping up everywhere
this tech is a tool and it generally will do what you ask (within reason)
you just need to know how to ask/tell it what you want (in its language/understanding)
That is awesome. Is it possible that AI can help refocus our humility in regards to life? Like a compass? Or a telescope?
I had planned to have students in a class write a short literature review on some physiographic provinces in western US. Have done this for a few years. First draft is typically pretty dreadful, then I edit/suggest and send back for final. Still often not that great (this is a common problem at many universities). So, I did the assignment with ChatGPT this morning. First draft was pretty good with some bogus info. I went back and told it to write a more scientific version. In less than 2 minutes I had a passable paper (it did not pass review by GPTzero however). I told it to rewrite as a scientific paper written by a human. GPTzero only detected about 40% of text as AI. I'm glad I'm retiring in a few weeks...
That is awesome. Is it possible that AI can help refocus our humility in regards to life? Like a compass? Or a telescope?
Not just yet, apparently. :-)
So that micro/macro level shaping is based on what? Decisions. Choices. Learned through environment and experiences. Interactions. Focus and discernment. "Agency" One of the older newcomer words relative to these sorts of discussions. An important word. Implying interaction through decisions even without choice. Hows and whys. What does it all look like when fed into a mechanical brain the size of humanity. I mean, juxtaposed with the information age.
