Balance the Triangle

MONTHLY WRAP - April 2023

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March's post roll-up around Tech and Us. What it’s doing and how we’re reacting.

How do we take our 1.0 selves into a 4.0 digital world?

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TECHNOLOGY

Release of the Grey Swan Guild’s Uncertainty - Making Sense of the World for Better, Bolder Outcomes playbook is coming up next month. I’m delighted to have contributed to this effort in “futures thinking.” In this case, contributing to the Sensemaking chapter in line with the Balance the Triangle thought experiment project. https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/chuckmetz_uncertainty-outcomes-playbook-activity-7058873773806014464-2h6E?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

AI and ChatGPT

• There are multiple approaches to computing at present. This introduction to neuromorphic computing illustrates one of them. https://www.informationweek.com/big-data/what-you-need-to-know-about-neuromorphic-computing
• Brain organoid implementation is another approach…with its own set of values issues - Organoid Intelligence: Computing on the Brain https://spectrum.ieee.org/organoid-intelligence-computing-on-brain
• Uses for ChatGPT, in this case, law, keep growing with attendant issues - Sneakily Using Generative AI ChatGPT To Spout Legalese And Imply That You’ve Hired An Attorney, Unsettling For AI Ethics And AI Law https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2023/04/29/sneakily-using-generative-ai-chatgpt-to-spout-legalese-and-imply-that-youve-hired-an-attorney-unsettling-for-ai-ethics-and-ai-law/
• For the foreseeable future, prompt engineering will continue a critical skill. Here, some basic tips - Prompt engineering as academic skill: a model for effective ChatGPT interactions https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/prompt-engineering-academic-skill-model-effective-chatgpt-interactions
• Excellent Brookings AI commentary - WEIRD AI: Understanding what nations include in their artificial intelligence plans https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2023/04/25/weird-ai-understanding-what-nations-include-in-their-artificial-intelligence-plans/
• All paradigm changes affect jobs - Generative AI set to affect 300mn jobs across major economies Generative AI set to affect 300mn jobs across major economies | Financial Times (ft.com)
• Advertising in the perennial struggle on how to pay for innovation - Microsoft is bringing ads to its AI-powered Bing search Microsoft is bringing ads to its AI-powered Bing search (qz.com)
• Alternatives to ChatGPT proliferate again this month - The 12 best alternatives to ChatGPT https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/the-12-best-alternatives-to-chatgpt
• How large language models are trained - Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart?https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/
• Large Language Models and the Reverse Turing Test ?https://direct.mit.edu/neco/article/35/3/309/114731/Large-Language-Models-and-the-Reverse-Turing-Test
• Sort of like letting ChatGPT run a Sims simulation - Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town ?https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/surprising-things-happen-when-you-put-25-ai-agents-together-in-an-rpg-town/
• GPT-4 goes a little AGI with Auto-GPT ?https://the-decoder.com/gpt-4-goes-a-little-agi-with-auto-gpt/
• Six Big AI Projects in the Race Beyond 2 Trillion Parameters ?https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/04/six-big-ai-projects-in-the-race-beyond-2-trillion-parameters.html
• AGI Beyond Generative AI ?https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/04/agi-beyond-generative-ai.html
• Generative AI Model Overview March 2023 ?https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/04/generative-ai-model-overview-march-2023.html
• Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance ?https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/bloomberggpt-50-billion-parameter-llm-tuned-finance/
• A New AI Lie Detector can Reveal its??A new AI lie detector can reveal its "hidden thoughts" - Big Think
• GPT-4 is a Reasoning Engine GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine - Chain of Thought - Every

Biological Sciences

• A significant development on the longevity front - Scientists slow aging by engineering longevity in cells https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/986881#.ZEv68sAH7g8.linkedin
• The Real Problem With Radically Extending Human Lifespan ?https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2023/04/12/the_real_problem_with_radically_extending_human_lifespan_893286.html
• A First-of-Its-Kind Signal Has Been Detected in The Human Brain https://www.sciencealert.com/a-first-of-its-kind-signal-has-been-detected-in-the-human-brain
• How the Brain Slows Down When We Focus Our Gaze ?https://neurosciencenews.com/gaze-focus-brain-slows-22966/
• New Inhalable Nanoparticles Perform Gene Editing Inside the Lungs ?https://www.extremetech.com/science/new-inhalable-nanoparticles-perform-gene-editing-inside-the-lungs

Robotics

• Meet the Autonomous Lab of the Future https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/04/17/meet-the-autonomous-lab-of-the-future/

US

Social Sciences

• Human wiring and moral behavior carries into the digital world, and this study applies to both - The Effect of Moral Behavior on Facial Attractiveness https://www.dovepress.com/the-effect-of-moral-behavior-on-facial-attractiveness-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-PRBM
• Why do we hate cubicles so vehemently? One reason is our evolutionary wiring - https://bigthink.com/the-learning-curve/your-brain-at-work/
• We are wired by evolution – survival of the fittest AND survival of the cooperative. Current culture wars threaten that cooperative survival lesson with grave consequences - ProSocial World: How the principles of evolution can create lasting global change https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/04/230426104012.htm
• And how do we agree on which values to have? How can we build human values into AI? https://www.deepmind.com/blog/how-can-we-build-human-values-into-ai
• Starting civilization has many meanings and many forms. Certainly, broader than this article. But questions around the Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic revolutions remain - The sapient paradox: With brains like ours, why did prehistoric humans wait millennia to start civilization? https://bigthink.com/the-past/sapient-paradox-prehistory/
• If we don’t develop these 4 human traits, ChatGPT can replace us, psychologists say https://www.fastcompany.com/90883369/human-traits-chatgpt-can-replace-us-psychologists-say
• Woman spends 500 days alone in a cave – how extreme isolation can alter your sense of time https://theconversation.com/woman-spends-500-days-alone-in-a-cave-how-extreme-isolation-can-alter-your-sense-of-time-204166
• Fear of AI is this century’s overpopulation scare https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/ai-fear-overpopulation/
• Man Uses Midjourney and ChatGPT to Resurrect His Dead Grandmother https://petapixel.com/2023/04/17/man-uses-midjourney-and-chatgpt-to-resurrect-his-dead-grandmother/
• How to Defend against the Rise of ChatGPT? Think like a Poet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/20/chatgpt-poetry-ai-language/
• Talking to ourselves and our traditions - What ChatGPT reveals about our history—and demands of our present https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2023/04/17/ai-chatgpt-google-245111
• Gossip influences who gets ahead in different cultures ?https://phys.org/news/2023-04-gossip-cultures.html
• The Dangers of Artificial Mediocrity ?https://unreasonabledoubt.substack.com/p/the-dangers-of-artificial-mediocrity
• The Secrets of Cooperation ?https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/secrets-of-cooperation/
• When Algorithms Rule, Values Can Wither ?https://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/when-algorithms-rule-values-can-wither
• When robots lie, is a simple apology enough for humans? ?https://studyfinds.org/robots-lie-apology-humans/
• ChatGPT statements can influence users' moral judgments ?https://phys.org/news/2023-04-chatgpt-statements-users-moral-judgments.html
• Concern trolling: the fear-based tactic that derails progress, from AI to biotech ?https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/concern-trolling/

And word for the day – Kama Muta – moved by love…

• What is it to be moved by love? And if kindness, love and similar tamp down our fight or flight instincts, might this not be reason to promote such feelings and values? Kama Muta: Being Moved by Love https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/between-cultures/202304/kama-muta-being-moved-by-love

Most read post of the month…

• Hype grows over “autonomous” AI agents that loop GPT-4 outputs https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/hype-grows-over-autonomous-ai-agents-that-loop-gpt-4-outputs

Challenging. Promising. See the complete LinkedIn feed HERE to see all the material around space, the environment, neuroscience, quantum physics, and other April topics.

Till next time…

Chuck