Links for 2022-12-08
“The second-order implications of near-term AI have not been fully grokked by America’s political classes. Here's what I think is coming.” https://www.secondbest.ca/p/before-the-flood
“The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT: A new chatbot from OpenAI is inspiring awe, fear, stunts and attempts to circumvent its guardrails” — “The potential societal implications of ChatGPT are too big to fit into one column.” [The New York Times] https://archive.ph/0XURt
Adobe officially opens up "Adobe Stock" photography service to allow generated images https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaSynthesis/comments/zdqxho/adobe_officially_opens_up_adobe_stock_photography/
Use of ChatGPT generated text for posts on Stack Overflow is temporarily banned. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned
Be sure to check out this fascinating ChatGPT experiment by @dgbrazales! https://twitter.com/dgbrazales/status/1599767467798429697
“ChatGPT is great, but still struggling to find the right prompt? Just launched https://learnprompting.org to solve this.”
How do we access the potential $3000B cislunar economy? By a $15-26B government investment in a Strategic Propellant Reserve. https://medium.com/@ToryBrunoULA/creation-of-a-u-s-strategic-propellant-reserve-b111044887e8
“So the first critical "unlock technology" is the Transformer, a neural net architecture powerful enough to become a general-purpose computer.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1593417974433517569.html
“I’ll argue that if today’s AI development methods lead directly to powerful enough AI systems, disaster is likely by default (in the absence of specific countermeasures).” https://www.cold-takes.com/why-would-ai-aim-to-defeat-humanity/
VulcanForms, founded by an MIT alumnus and professor, has created digital production systems to manufacture complex metal parts at scale. https://news.mit.edu/2022/vulcanforms-printing-manufacturing-1128
New Form of Antimicrobial Resistance Discovered – One of the World’s Greatest Health Threats https://scitechdaily.com/new-form-of-antimicrobial-resistance-discovered-one-of-the-worlds-greatest-health-threats/
NASA Gave ICON $57 Million to Build a 3D Printer for Structures on the Moon https://singularityhub.com/2022/12/01/nasa-gave-icon-57-million-to-build-a-3d-printer-for-structures-on-the-moon/
At least 300 million potentially habitable planets in our Milky Way, rising to 2.1 billion planets in more optimistic scenarios https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14812