Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
by
Madhumita Murgia
Published 20 Mar 2024
This awakening was at first gradual, and then happened all at once, largely due to a single event, a watershed moment of AI entering our public square: the launch of ChatGPT. Like many breakthroughs in scientific discovery, the one that spurred this latest artificial intelligence advance came from a moment of serendipity. In early 2017, two Google research scientists, Ashish Vaswani and Jakob Uszkoreit, were in a hallway of the search giant’s Mountain View campus, discussing a new idea for how to improve machine translation, the AI technology behind Google Translate.1 The AI researchers had been working with another colleague, Illia Polosukhin, on a concept they called ‘self-attention’ that could radically speed up and augment how computers understand language.
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
by
Ray Kurzweil
Published 25 Jun 2024
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 93 Rachel Syme, “Gmail Smart Replies and the Ever-Growing Pressure to E-Mail Like a Machine,” New Yorker, November 28, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/gmail-smart-replies-and-the-ever-growing-pressure-to-e-mail-like-a-machine. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 94 For a more detailed explainer on how transformers work, and the original technical paper, see Giuliano Giacaglia, “How Transformers Work,” Towards Data Science, March 10, 2019, https://towardsdatascience.com/transformers-141e32e69591; Ashish Vaswani et al., “Attention Is All You Need,” arXiv:1706.03762v5 [cs.CL], December 6, 2017, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 95 Irene Solaiman et al., “GPT-2: 1.5B Release,” OpenAI, November 5, 2019, https://openai.com/blog/gpt-2-1-5b-release. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 96 Tom B.
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by
Nate Silver
Published 12 Aug 2024
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT has testified about his concerns: Cat Zakrzewski, Cristiano Lima-Strong, and Will Oremus, “CEO Behind ChatGPT Warns Congress AI Could Cause ‘Harm to the World,’ ” The Washington Post, May 17, 2023, washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/16/sam-altman-open-ai-congress-hearing. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “Attention Is All”: Ashish Vaswani et al., “Attention Is All You Need,” arXiv, August 1, 2023, arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT most rapidly adopted technologies: Krystal Hu, “ChatGPT Sets Record for Fastest-Growing User Base—Analyst Note,” Reuters, February 2, 2023, sec. Technology, reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-fastest-growing-user-base-analyst-note-2023-02-01.