“ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history…” https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-fastest-growing-user-base-analyst-note-2023-02-01/
Microsoft Bing will incorporate OpenAI's GPT-4 https://www.semafor.com/article/02/01/2023/chatgpt-is-about-to-get-even-better-and-microsofts-bing-could-win-big
ChatGPT detection tool says Macbeth was generated by AI. What happens now? https://venturebeat.com/ai/chatgpt-detection-tool-thinks-macbeth-was-generated-by-ai-what-happens-now/
An Analysis of the Automatic Bug Fixing Performance of ChatGPT https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08653
Mathematical Capabilities of ChatGPT https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13867
The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/openaicms
“Google or Meta .. announced multiple generative-AI research projects, & many observers believe they've developed tools internally that meet or exceed ChatGPT's abilities — but have not unveiled them for fear of offense or liability.” https://www.axios.com/2023/01/31/chatgpt-ai-arms-race-ethics-competition
Progressive Prompts: Continual Learning for Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12314
"Humans understand the signs or gestures wild chimps and bonobos use to communicate with one another... [This] suggests that the last common ancestor we shared with chimps used similar gestures, and that these were a starting point for our language." https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64387401
Male-male combat is at least 400 million years old: Male trilobites had built-in tridents on their heads, which they used to fight each other for mates. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2119970120
“A balanced diet, regular exercise, and stress reduction can help prevent heart disease—the world’s biggest killer. But what if people could take a vaccine to prevent it, too? Advances in gene editing may soon make that vision possible.” [MIT Technology Review] https://archive.is/an4EL
Portable cap can measure cognition with pulsed laser light https://news.mit.edu/2023/portable-cap-can-measure-cognition-pulsed-laser-light-0124
How Well Do U.S. Faculty Reflect America? https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/how-well-do-u-s-faculty-reflect-america-spoiler-not-well/
Evidence is mounting for a link between the gut and the brain in what is termed the psychobiome—part of the microbiome—that affects how people think and feel [The Economist] https://archive.is/pDt0P
Swimmers at the Last Frontier Hotel about 65 miles northwest of the city of Las Vegas watch a mushroom cloud (top of photo) from an atomic test that took place at 10 am on March 29, 1955, as part of Operation Teapot:
The aim of this campaign of terror was to divert attention from the poor performance of the Russian military and to appease the bloodthirsty public at home. It was always clear that it could not influence the course of the war in Russia's favor. On the contrary, it forced the West to supply advanced air defense systems.
Regarding ChatGPT's mathematical capabilities: it can't even calculate the volume of a sphere. I wrote about this here: https://davefriedman.substack.com/p/chatgpt-still-cant-do-math . Interestingly, if you ask it to write a Python script which calculates the volume of a sphere, it does that flawlessly.