Monthly Wrap - March 2023

MONTHLY WRAP - March 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

ChatGPT

ChatGPT and competitors remain the biggest news of the month and in the feed, so let’s start there.

The Technology itself rode both hype and development waves as developments continued creating a public frenzy of consumers, providers, and aspirant providers of technology and services. Size parameters. Business reorganizations. New challengers. The release of ChatGPT-4 as perhaps the biggest news of March with significant improvements and continuing challenges. Still hallucinating. And perhaps less accurate than its predecessor.

·???????When AI’s Large Language Models Shrink - IEEE Spectrum

·???????Google Assistant might be doomed: Division “reorganizes” to focus on Bard | Ars Technica

·???????Got It AI’s ELMAR challenges GPT-4 and LLaMa, scores well on hallucination benchmarks | VentureBeat

·???????Google Rolls Out Its Bard Chatbot to Battle ChatGPT | WIRED

• Google Demos Superpowered AI for Docs and G... | ExtremeTech
• Google announces new generative AI lineup in advance of Microsoft's rumored GPT-4 debut | VentureBeat
• OpenAI rival Anthropic introduces Claude, an AI assistant to take on ChatGPT | VentureBeat
• Researchers Find GPT-4 Is Significantly Less Accurate Than GPT-3 (futurism.com)
• GPT-4 Ups the Ante in the AI Arms Race - IEEE Spectrum
• GPT-4 (openai.com)
• GPT-4 is coming next week – and it will be multimodal, says Microsoft Germany | heise online
• Get Ready to Meet the ChatGPT Clones | WIRED
• Winners and losers in the race to add AI - by Casey Newton (platformer.news)

Guidance as many rushed in to offer information and services. “Prompt generation” education and services were particularly noticeable as in the example below.

·???????The ChatGPT list of lists: A collection of 3000+ prompts, examples, use-cases, tools, APIs, extensions, fails and other resources. | by Maximilian Vogel | MLearning.ai | Feb, 2023 | Medium

The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging from Large AI Models

As provider competition intensified, companies like Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic introduced new and improved AI assistants designed to revolutionize the way we interact with technology. Tools such as Google's PaLM-E, Microsoft's GPT-4, and Anthropic's Claude saw a shift towards multimodal AI systems that can process and generate different types of content. New abilities. New integrations. New explorations.

AI teaching itself. Gaining plugins to the Web. Integrations as a huge Chat AI app framework develops. Robotics. It’s just beginning.

·???????[2302.04761] Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools (arxiv.org)

·???????Microsoft is bringing ads to its AI-powered Bing search (qz.com)

·???????AI Seems to Do Better on Tasks When Asked to Reflect on Its Mistakes (futurism.com)

·???????ChatGPT Plugins are Coming Soon— and Will Enable Live Internet Access: How to join the Waitlist | by Michael King | Mar, 2023 | Medium

·???????Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes? (substack.com)

·???????Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing "Sparks" of AGI (futurism.com)

·???????Nvidia GTC Highlights The Physical Side Of AI - Robotics (forbes.com)

·???????Multimodal AI for medicine, simplified - by Eric Topol (substack.com)

·???????Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands | Ars Technica

·???????ChatGPT Is Coming to Slack Because We Live and Work in Hell (futurism.com)

·???????The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models | Quanta Magazine

Cautions Amidst the AI Gold Rush

But the unpredictable abilities emerging from large AI models have left regulators, businesses, and individuals grappling with the consequences of their explosive popularity. Concerns about AI's potential impact on job security, political persuasion, and privacy have begun to emerge, as well as ethical considerations surrounding these powerful tools.

·???????A.I. threatens foundations of society: Yuval Harari | Fortune

·???????There's a 'ChatGPT' for biology. What could go wrong? - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (thebulletin.org)

·???????OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world – Ars Technica (ampproject.org)

·???????The Numbers Are In: Replacing All CEOs With AI Just Makes Sense (futurism.com)

·???????Uh Oh, OpenAI's GPT-4 Just Fooled a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA (futurism.com)

·???????Chatbots shouldn’t use emojis (nature.com)

·???????How Not to Test GPT-3 - by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis (substack.com)

·???????Hallucinations Could Blunt ChatGPT’s Success - IEEE Spectrum

·???????OpenAI CEO Says Unfortunately, People Will Be Disappointed With GPT-4 (futurism.com)

·???????The Shaky Foundations of Foundation Models in Healthcare (stanford.edu)

·???????AI Image Generators: An Emerging Cybersecurity Threat (makeuseof.com)

·???????Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed ? The Register (ampproject.org)

US

Tentative Societal Forays into Real-World Usage

As AI technology becomes more accessible, society is quickly exploring real-world applications. From using ChatGPT to discuss art theory and evaluate cognitive psychology, to the implementation of AI in schools, these tools will increasingly find their way into various aspects of human life. Creativity. Management. Entrepreneurship.

But this means it's crucial to consider potential consequences. Vulnerability of certain jobs to automation. The hunt for viable business models. The philosophical implications of AI's growing influence.

• https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/chuckmetz_gpt-play-activity-7044378443383263232-kB1M?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
• https://www.dhirubhai.net/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7043440277033791489?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
• https://venturebeat.com/ai/generative-ai-imagining-a-future-of-ai-dominated-creativity/
• https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/chuckmetz_i-wrote-a-new-book-with-openais-latest-activity-7042002551973548032-YsH0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
• We Asked ChatGPT About Art Theory. It Led Us Down a Rabbit Hole So Perplexing We Had to Ask Hal Foster for a Reality Check (artnet.com)
• AI Study Evaluates GPT-3 Using Cognitive Psychology | Psychology Today

The Big Picture - Balancing Human Needs and AI Advancements in our efforts to make Sense of this evolving digital world

As the AI landscape becomes increasingly competitive, it raises questions about how these AI tools are shaping human basic needs and affecting everyday life. While ChatGPT and clones hold immense potential, it remains crucial to strike a balance between embracing their capabilities and addressing the ethical, social, and practical concerns that arise from their widespread adoption.

The debate between opposing sides espousing use and putting on the brakes intensified. Increasingly broad disciplines began offering advice and opinions. As we continue to explore the implications of AI advancements, it remains essential to engage in thoughtful, inclusive conversations to responsibly navigate this new digital landscape. And that’s always tough.

• Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions (theconversation.com)
• Italy blocks ChatGPT, citing data privacy concerns, as calls for AI regulation grow | VentureBeat
• 24 Philosophy Professors React to ChatGPT’s Arrival, Part I, Ahmed Bouzid - Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (social-epistemology.com)
• The age of average — Alex Murrell
• Generative AI set to affect 300mn jobs across major economies | Financial Times (ft.com)
• An early guide to policymaking on generative AI | MIT Technology Review
• How AI might change our judgment and decision-making (axios.com)
• How ChatGPT will revolutionize the economy | MIT Technology Review
• AI Spring? Four Takeaways from Major Releases in Foundation Models (stanford.edu)
• What's next in large language model (LLM) research? Here's what's coming down the ML pike | VentureBeat
• Digital culture and entertainment insights daily: TikTok, Google, and the future of search engines (dirt.fyi)
• Play with AI | Magazine | MoMA
• Google now wants to answer your questions without links and with AI. Where does that leave publishers? | Nieman Journalism Lab (niemanlab.org)
• The Good and Bad of ChatGPT in Schools | WIRED
• These Are the Jobs Most Vulnerable to AI, Researchers Say (futurism.com)
• For generative AI and ChatGPT, the hunt for a business model begins (axios.com)
• The 2023 MAD (Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Data) Landscape – Matt Turck
• https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/chuckmetz_generative-ai-activity-7038333533924327425-bol7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
• Must read: the 100 most cited AI papers in 2022 (zeta-alpha.com)
• God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – The Marginalian
• AI’s Powers of Political Persuasion (stanford.edu)

Other Areas

Plants make sounds when stressed…

·???????Researchers eavesdrop on plants and find they make popping sounds under pressure (cosmosmagazine.com)

Tyrannosaurus rex may have grinned like a lizard rather than a crocodile…

·???????Tyrannosaurus Rex Had Lips Like a Lizard, Scientists Reveal : ScienceAlert

Moons around Uranus may have oceans and there could be entire planets made of dark matter…

·???????Scientists May Have Just Discovered New Oceans in Two of Uranus' Moons (futurism.com)

·???????Physicists Say There May Be Entire Planets Made of Dark Matter (futurism.com)

The evolution of human imagination even as animals without brains have memories…to technology reading our minds

·???????Imagination makes us human – this unique ability to envision what doesn't exist has a long evolutionary history (theconversation.com)

·???????Animals without a brain still form associative memories | Ars Technica

·???????Neurotechnology is here. Without laws, your brain’s privacy is at risk. - Vox

3D printing our food…

·???????Have your cake and print it: the 3D culinary revolution is coming | 3D printing | The Guardian

Neurodiversity…

·???????Aphantasia can be a gift to philosophers and critics like me | Psyche Ideas

Animal behavior and cognition…

·???????Bees learn to dance and to solve puzzles from their peers | Ars Technica

How we experience time…

·???????'Wrinkles' in time experience are linked to heartbeat, suggest researchers (medicalxpress.com)

Aging…

·???????Rules for sustaining peak performance as we grow older - Big Think

And word for the day – coulrophobia…

·???????Why are we so scared of clowns? Here's what we've discovered (medicalxpress.com)

Most read post of the month was around brain organoids…

·???????An Overview of in Vitro Biological Neural Networks for Robot Intelligence - Neuroscience News

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

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Till next time…

Chuck