Bing vs. Bard, US-China STEM Competition, and Embryo Screening — Manifold Episode #30

 

Steve discusses the AI competition between Microsoft and Google, the competition between the U.S. and China in STEM, China’s new IVF policy, and a Science Magazine survey on polygenic screening of embryos. 

00:00 Introduction 

02:37 Bing vs Bard: LLMs and hallucination 

20:52 China demographics & STEM 

34:29 China IVF now covered by national health insurance

40:28 Survey on embryo screening in Science: ~50% of those under 35 would use it to enhance congnitivie ability 

References: 

Bing vs Bard and Hallucination 

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1625222378383876119 

China demographics and STEM

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1620765589752119297 https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623279827640848385

 

China IVF 

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623475304432820224 https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623478413758500864 

Science survey on embryo screening 

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623783244947722241 https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623664372202500097

ChatGPT, LLMs, and AI — Manifold #29

 

Steve discusses Large Language Model AIs such as ChatGPT. 

0:00 How do LLMs work? 

10:22 Impact of ChatGPT 

15:21 AI landscape 

24:13 Hallucination and Focus 

33:09 Applications 

39:29 Future landscape 

Manifold interview with John Schulman of OpenAI: 

https://www.manifold1.com/episodes/john-schulman-openai-and-recent-advances-in-artificial-intelligence-16 

Blog posts on word vectors and approximately linear vector space of concepts used by the human mind:

 

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-future-of-thought-via-thought.html https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2016/12/towards-geometry-of-thought.html