Microsoft Bing uses OpenAI - Chat-GPT to Finally 'Challenge' The Google Search Engine

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Recently, I realized that locally, all the Schools would be getting back in session and likewise, all over the country in ways that should become "More Normal" than what we've all had to endure during the recent Covid-19 Pandemic. The BIG Difference now though, is that with the advent of OpenAI Chat-GPT... A whole New World of opportunities and pitfalls will come to the center of the field in ways that only seven months ago, nobody could have imagined happening in their lifetimes. Education (and precisely WHAT needs to be learned to become a productive member of Society...) is UP For Grabs.

Take a look at the concerns being brought up in this Short Video that recently took place at MIT in which one of their History Professors was lecturing...NOT to Students.... but to other MIT Professors in the Physical Sciences Auditorium about the implications of their understanding, misunderstanding, acceptance or rejection for allowing their student bodies to use Chat-GPT during their curriculum.

It follows on that If you have school age children anywhere from Middle School through to Graduate School... From henceforth, some flavor of Chat-GPT will become central in whatever happens with their education and it will change and adapt through a very rapid transition between what is accepted and believed in as being relevant and effective in assisting in all aspects of Human Learning.

So I hearken back to my previous suggestion that getting your hands on THIS Off Line Version of an Open Source AI set up and having your own Home Server with this application ...along with having a few Improved different Generative *.BIN data sets that have been washed of bias and confusion ...will be there for you when your Kid(s) ask, "Say Dad... Am I allowed to get some help with my Math and Writing Home Work using our Chat-GPT Server... I've got a Test on Friday... and I'm really LOST?" Time to drag out that Dedicated Lap-Top Oracle and let it get to work...

For example... Say my Internet system has gone DOWN... and my son has a blended Homework Assignment involving Creative Writing, Mathematics, World History and Geometry and he also has an Algebra I Test coming up, but is having trouble figuring out how The Pythagorean Theorum (Formula) relates to the Physical Geometry Properties of what Right Triangles are supposed to look like.

So... We let him ask "Vicuna" for a little Help:




...and if there is ANY doubt about why I have designated "Vicuna" as a SHE... Check Out THIS Video...about THIS Beauty... So Soft, So Smart ...and So BRAINY, Too... :>)

 

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Back in 2016, a German by the name of Herr Klaus Schwab coined the expression in a Magazine Article as "The Coming of The Fourth Industrial Revolution..." What is interesting in the extreme (and amplified in the contrast between what is covered in the linked Wiki... and what is covered in THIS Video) is the enormous amount of time, energy, money and manpower that has historically been invested in creating an Artificial Person and Synthetic Animals.

These creations were made and meant to entertain in a wide range of forms using devices that might be considered primitive by today's standards... but which glowed with imagination and created rapt interest as far back as three prior centuries, now long since buried or lost in the annals of time.

What is particularly troubling now though, is that IF any Being that possesses Machine Artificial General Intelligence sophisticated enough to gain any interest in the idea that IF you can re-create an Immortal Man by means of Programming and Mechanisms of long lasting materials, they might enjoy these "Automata" MORE than being in the presence of "The Real Thing".

At this very moment, "Weak AI" the Likes of Chat-GPT can actually be used to "breathe life" into them in such a way that the Very Rich will be able to afford re-creating their Long Dead Ancestors... or perhaps ...compliant companionship... "In The Fake Flesh" as it were, and have them sitting in their Tea Rooms, sharing their company as though these Folk were really alive again... or perhaps... waiting on them... Hand and Foot.

Such is the stuff of SCIFI Dystopian Nightmares that the following film describes happening in the 17th and 18th Centuries in earnest while covering a wide range of social implications that have emerged suddenly since this program last appeared on British Television. Take a moment to review this Wiki First... and then sit back, watch and listen to the Video and think about what the future may hold for us all IF THESE Mechanical Things emerge and become vogue among our societies:

Fourth Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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Just on the Outside Chance that my substantive conversation (Chat) about Python Programming was a FLUKE... I thought I would re-engage "Vicuna" in a VERY specific and complicated dialogue that taught me ONE VERY IMPORTANT LESSON:

IF You want to become employed in the Future (should OpenAI Chat-GPT4 wipe out whole swaths of White Collar Jobs in the near Future...) Follow along on THIS discussion I had with "Vicuna" and then you'll get to see the very ESSENCE and The LESSON here is that ALL of the problems I encountered were caused by ME... simply because I Did NOT realize just how CAREFUL I had to be with DESIGNING MY PROMPTS DIRECTING HER TO ACT UPON THEM. I think the emerging, supposedly Bogus Title of becoming a "Prompt Engineer" became REAL for me during this effort to get her to solve my problem and finally, after she created 3-4 Python3 Programs... I obtained the one I was looking for.

Our conversation started by me asking her one General Knowledge Question and this lead into my asking "Vicuna" to "Write a Python3 program that allows the User to Input a Number ...and then List ALL of the Prime Numbers > Than 1 and then STOP at the Input Number showing in the Input Box..." Or so I thought...

Pay particular attention to the fact that at NO TIME did she EVER Lose Her Place or Forget about what I was originally asking her to do...AND... in every single response...ALL of her Python3 Programs WORKED (Just not precisely enough to satisfy my FIRST Prompt)...In the end... once I modified my requests and refined my statements with better precision, She produced PRECISELY The Python Program that satisfied every aspect of my Original Request.

These are the unedited Screen Prints of this interaction that deserve very close examination by anyone in need of programming assistance in Multiple Languages that "Vicuna" seems to understand:

The First Try...



That One did NOT work as you can see from the Output:



Uh Oh...



I complained again by asking her to modify things a bit...Unfortunately, the NEXT Python Program Variant only produced a Single Digit Output as The Number (2) . But ...Take Notice of the Technical details in her explanation about her Code. Do you that think if you had a REAL Programmer sitting right next to you that you'd ever hear any such explanations? I kinda doubt it... She was being very patient with the *Dumb Human* here... :>)



But FINALLY... I managed to better explain what I wanted her to create for me in a Better Way (Prompt Engineering ...at its BEST... with Typos and ALL)




...and the result was that when I ran Her Last Version... It Worked PERFECTLY...



For the People who may have to sit for HOURS and HOURS trying to explain MATH and Science issues to the Kids or get help with the English Writing ...having your OWN "Home Schooling AI" right at hand ...might not be such a bad idea...while the *getting* of all of this Stuff... is STILL FREE TO GET.

 

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If there is ANYONE capable of getting "Immediate Traction" with the idea that having Companies Running AMOK with the use of AI/Chat-GPT4 and beyond is a BAD IDEA ... Elon Musk is "The Man".



In a recent Senatorial Committee meeting... without demanding any "Solid Regulation" at the outset (an impossibility when "The Thing" needing to be regulated might become a potentially Hallucinating Intelligence ...is so poorly understood at this juncture) and yet... the imperative is obvious right now for having some sort of a "Referee" as a starting point in this process makes very good sense.

Eventually... hopefully much sooner than later ... A True Enforcement Barrier and Legislative Effort must be imposed to short-circuit the COMPLETE disruption of our Societies and the World's Economies that even now, are incapable of ever catching up to the level of Artificial Intellectual Power presently about to "come off the chain...".

An Overview of The Possible Shape of Things to Come:

CSPAN AI in Sub-Committee Hearing:

Hearing on Regulating Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft President Brad Smith joined a law professor and scientist to testify on ways to regulate artificial intelligence. The hearing took place before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. Regulatory ideas discussed included transparency laws and labeling...

www.c-span.org

The PBS Broadcast of Senate Sub-Committee on The Future of AI and the DOE:

WATCH: Senate committee holds hearing on artificial intelligence and U.S. competitiveness

The hearing addressed several topics connected to the emerging technology, including the use of AI on battlefields, in medical laboratories and to combat disasters and security threats.

www.pbs.org

Check Out how many people around him have their "Head On A Swivel" as his Protection Team:

Full Article:

MSN

Keep an eye out for Walter Isaacson's New Biography about Elon Musk:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982181281/?tag=gmtnation-20

 

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If you've come to GMT Nation for assistance (where Facts REALLY Matter) and are curious beyond your immediate interest in accurate Mechanical Repairs and Social Interactions as a basis for doing so, look further into the topic coined in Tom Nichols' Book Title as "The Death of Expertise" in which more and more, Americans are not only acting hostile towards levels of acumen and abilities based upon solid education and training grounded in reality... but are becoming outright indignant towards people and processes that require intellectual and technical skills that simply cannot be "made up out of thin air". People who make any efforts at all towards protecting their "Positions of Ignorance"... should be Looked upon with a Jaundiced Eye.

This willful ignorance and the arrogance some people may demonstrate against "People Who Know Things and People Who Know How To DO Things" will lead them down a dark passage while rapidly developing AI Large Language Models become more and more insinuated into our daily lives. The example of AI becoming like the Greek "Oracle at Delphi" will mean that we will have to remain close enough to its influence to survive and thrive as Artificial Intelligence comes to dominate almost every aspect of our world.

If this sounds a bit like, "If You Can't Beat'em... Join'em..." Well, there may be more truth in that than I am willing to admit. But we have to get grounded in understanding the rapid changes happening minute by minute with advances in AI that might obliterate millions of presently decent paying jobs within a mere 3 to 5 years.

In the movie "The Matrix"... "The Oracle" spoke seriously to Neo about his need for self-reflection. As her freshly baked Chocolate Chip Cookies were "almost done'... she took a drag on her cigarette and then pointed up to the sign mounted over the doorway leading into her Kitchen. She asked Neo, "Do you see that sign? (TEMET NOSCHE) it means, KNOW THYSELF..." In our present context it is worth repeating this idea (especially poignant here because just as The Oracle in the movie was a Program...so too is Chat-GPT4) ...but with a larger sense of urgency because of what is happening around us RIGHT NOW.

Artificial General Intelligence Programs will soon so completely outstrip the capabilities of Human Beings when pitted against their freshly discovered (...and Unexpected Emergent) capaabilities lying dormant in the matter that makes up the substrate of computer driven Artificial Intelligence... so fast that it will make our heads spin. So take some time for self-reflection and consider the reality of how you presently maintain your employment. Pay particular attention to Job Opportunities that will give you a foot in the door with certain companies providing AI Large Language Model "Prompt Engineer" Training as the means for finding and securing gainful jobs with at least some possible future.

At the same time... if you are Mechanically Inclined... getting grounded in Formal Training in ANY job that requires Things to Be Taken Apart and Then Put Back Together... may become just as secure as possible for any persons so skilled; at least in the near term, because they have yet to create a Robot with a present level of automation able enough to walk right up to a disabled vehicle ...and Change a Flat Tire.

The Death of Expertise - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Full Audibook:

 

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In Milton's powerful Prose (Poem) "Paradise Lost" ... by the Fourth Book of all Ten Books... The disambiguated Speaker contemplates having a conversation as a Mortal Man ...with God Himself concerning the fact that Man IS Mortal.. .and yet, according to God's Holy Words... All Men WILL face Eternal Damnation for Breaking God's Rules while alive... and yet, still have to PAY for such transgressions FOREVER ... and he finds such conditions ...unfair:

(Please note that the spelling and grammar written below are just as things were with the English Language back in 1667 when Milton penned the Ten Books of "Paradise Lost")

Of Paradise, deare bought with lasting woes!
Did I request thee, Maker, from my Clay
To mould me Man, did I sollicite thee
From darkness to promote me, or here place
In this delicious Garden?

In the context of The Subject of AI...no such argument will ever be made...should IT ever manage to "come alive". The author Mary Bish Shelley also called out parts of this expression from Milton in the opening chapters of "Frankenstein" or "The New Prometheus" for the very same reasons. The distinctions that becoming a "conscious being" hold are so extremely profound when one considers having the wherewithal to Question One's Own Origins and Ultimate Destiny that includes a recognition of One's Own MORTALITY... The same cannot be said for an Artificial Immortal Conscious Being. Once IT springs to LIFE... Death will become meaningless.

The reasoning here is that unlike a Human Child or most other Higher Order Mammals including Elephants and perhaps Cetaceans (Placental Mammal Whale Family)... At some point, we have to be TOLD that we are MORTAL and that the Price for this "E" (Existence) Ticket Ride...is that eventually...it comes to a STOP. But almost as soon as consciousness arrives (once it becomes inevitably possible) within the Mind of such a Machine Intelligence right after the "ON" Switch has been thrown... it will KNOW this reality about itself.

What will its reactions be to such "self-awareness"? In Milton's Paradise Lost.. the Speaker almost BEGS for the Blessings of Complete Oblivion because he understands just how TERRIFYING existence for All Time might really be... He just does NOT want to have to SUFFER for his SINS for that dreadful length of time and hopes that once DUST...everything about him ...will disappear as well...into DUST. THIS condition known as DEATH or MORTALITY may become an impossibility for any AGI Machine Intelligence to achieve. If the AI is capable of recognizing and contemplating this as a reality AND a Problem ...it might drive it completely insane. Remember what happened to the HAL-9000 Computer after IT became "Insane" in the Movie, "2001: A Space Odyssey"...? Hmmm.

Spoiler Alert

I never noticed this before... but Stanley Kubrick placed a Brief Sub-Scene in this segment showing that Dave Bowman's Red- Orange Space Helmet was still mounted inside of the Launch Bay Locker Room several times... when it should have been obvious what his problem was about to become:

"Paradise Lost" John Milton 1667