Tuesday, December 20, 2022

What It's Like To be a Computer: An Interview with GPT-3

There is this thing called the Turing Test, invented by Alan Turing seventy years ago.  The idea is to see if a computer could become smart enough to fool a human into thinking he is talking to a real person.  We have crossed a threshold where computers have almost reached this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqbB07n_uQ4

The AI appears to understand more than it actually does.  It has studied human conversation and a mountain of raw information so that it can imitate a human conversation.

However, having a conversational computer isn't the only threshold the machines have crossed recently.  Computer AI has become much more useful, performing all kinds of new tasks, such as surgery or writing computer code.  By the end of the decade, machines will be performing many more jobs.  It is very likely that in the next couple of decades, or even in this one, we will have general-purpose robots that could perform any task that we want them to do.

Sunday, December 4, 2022

Is Tik Tok addictive?

Is Tik Tok addictive?
In the first part of the video, he claims that Baby Boomers have been stealing money from the younger generation.  

So I wrote this:

A liberal professor blames Baby Boomers for bad economics, as if excessive government spending, national debt, and inflation had nothing to do with it. The problem with education is that it is government subsidized which has driven up the cost several times the rate of inflation.

Saturday, December 3, 2022

"We May Have A Problem Here" | CoD: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered

This is not realistic in terms of physics, but amusing to watch...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d77wSm9Ih14

The blast spreads too fast. BTW, if the blast is in a vacuum then there is no blast wave.