Thursday, February 16, 2023

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 

China demographics and STEM
https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1620765589752119297 https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623279827640848385
 
China IVF 

Science survey on embryo screening 

Thursday, February 02, 2023

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: 


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