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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
Long and detailed dive into the history of neural networks and computation and n-grams without too much math, and how it all works today. Great refresher.
And instead what we should conclude is that tasks—like writing essays—that we humans could do, but we didn’t think computers could do, are actually in some sense computationally easier than we thought.
In effect, we’re “opening up the brain of ChatGPT” (or at least GPT-2) and discovering, yes, it’s complicated in there, and we don’t understand it—even though in the end it’s producing recognizable human language.
Implementationally
·writings.stephenwolfram.com·
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
Pluralistic: Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing (21 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing (21 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Sure feels like an industry wide crackdown on a powerful labor segment.
For many technologists, the allure of digital tools is the possibility of emancipation, a world where we can collaborate to make things without bosses or masters. But for the bosses and masters, automation's allure is the possibility of getting rid of workers, shattering their power, and replacing them with meeker, cheaper, more easily replaced labor.
·pluralistic.net·
Pluralistic: Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing (21 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow