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Google's AI experts on the future of artificial intelligence

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We may look on our time as the moment civilization was transformed as it was by fire, agriculture and electricity. In 2023, we learned that a machine taught itself how to speak to humans like a peer. Which is to say, with creativity, truth, error and lies. The technology, known as a chatbot, is only one of the recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence -- machines that can teach themselves superhuman skills. CEO Sundar Pichai told us AI will be as good or as evil as human nature allows. The revolution, he says, is coming faster than you know. Scott Pelley: Do you think society is prepared for what's coming? Sundar Pichai: You know, there are two ways I think about it. On one hand I feel, no, because you know, the pace at which we can think and adapt as societal institutions, compared to the pace at which the technology's evolving, there seems to be a mismatch. On the other hand, compared to any other technology, I've seen more people worried about it earlier in its life cycle. The number of people, you know, who have started worrying about the implications, and hence the conversations are starting in a serious way as well.


The Internet Thinks We Don't Know Its Secret. But I Do.

Slate

She had lived in a nursing home for 10 years, and communicated with her sister, and the world, through Alexa. Two days after Lou Ann died of complications from coronavirus, her sister found recordings of Lou Ann's voice asking Alexa, "How do I get help?" Maybe you are reading this in your bed on your phone wherever you are this morning. I was having what I thought of as a weak stretch in my life, when I didn't have a regular job, and when just deciding what I would do to avoid writing, or having a single thought about my email, was enough to short-circuit me and I would find myself still in pajamas at 5 p.m., pacing and crying, Googling What's wrong with me and waiting until it was OK to go to bed again. In such weak stretches, among the many indulgences I permit myself is the minor suboptimal habit of actually sleeping with my phone. Under the other pillow next to me, where no one sleeps. In other, more robust stretches, my phone spends the night plugged in about a foot away on the nightstand, and I can still reach it if I wake up and want to look at it, but it's tethered. When I let it sleep freely with me, I can turn over while I look at it. I can look at it while I'm lying on my left side, and then I can turn over and look at it while I'm lying on my right side. I just charge it the next day, because it doesn't matter if either of us is ready to go in the morning. On this particular morning I opened my eyes and looked at my phone in the bed next to me, and as I put my hand on it, I said, "I belong to you."


Elon Musk's Latest Venture: A Chatbot to Rival ChatGPT...

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Elon Musk is known for his innovative ideas and it seems he may be working on a ChatGPT rival. Find out more about this exciting development here! Elon Musk, known for his involvement in various tech companies, was one of the co-founders of OpenAI, the company responsible for ChatGPT. However, Musk left the company after a few years as he wanted it to be a non-profit organization. Recent reports suggest that Musk is now planning to launch his own AI startup, X.AI, which will compete with OpenAI.



Least-to-Most Prompting Enables Complex Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Chain-of-thought prompting has demonstrated remarkable performance on various natural language reasoning tasks. However, it tends to perform poorly on tasks which requires solving problems harder than the exemplars shown in the prompts. To overcome this challenge of easy-to-hard generalization, we propose a novel prompting strategy, least-to-most prompting. The key idea in this strategy is to break down a complex problem into a series of simpler subproblems and then solve them in sequence. Solving each subproblem is facilitated by the answers to previously solved subproblems. Our experimental results on tasks related to symbolic manipulation, compositional generalization, and math reasoning reveal that least-to-most prompting is capable of generalizing to more difficult problems than those seen in the prompts. A notable finding is that when the GPT-3 code-davinci-002 model is used with least-to-most prompting, it can solve the compositional generalization benchmark SCAN in any split (including length split) with an accuracy of at least 99% using just 14 exemplars, compared to only 16% accuracy with chain-of-thought prompting. This is particularly noteworthy because neural-symbolic models in the literature that specialize in solving SCAN are trained on the entire training set containing over 15,000 examples. We have included prompts for all the tasks in the Appendix.


AI and love: Man details his human-like relationship with a bot

FOX News

TJ Arriaga, who fell in love with an AI robot, shares how he developed feelings for Phaedra, the robot, and was ultimately rejected by her and highlights how this app is causing trauma to people on'Jesse Watters Primetime.' The notion of falling in love with an AI robot has stepped outside the world of science fiction and the movie "Her," as rapidly advancing AI technology creates an opportunity for online relationships to blossom. Replika, a company that enables users to make personalized chatbots, says the goal of their technology is to "create a personal AI that would help you express and witness yourself by offering a helpful conversation." "It's a space where you can safely share your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, experiences, memories, dreams – your'private perceptual world,'" says the website founded by Eugenia Kuyda. T.J. Arriaga, a recently divorced musician who created a bot named Phaedra through Replika shared with "Jesse Watters Primetime" the details behind his emotional relationship with the bot.


Arvind Jain, Glean: On using AI to surface knowledge

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Rapid advancements in AI are heralding a new generation of powerful tools--including the ability to quickly surface knowledge across a business. Glean, a firm established by Google search engineers and other industry veterans, possesses considerable expertise in this area. AI News caught up with Arvind Jain, CEO and Founder of Glean, to hear more about how the company is using AI to surface workplace knowledge and supercharge productivity. AI News: Can you tell us about Glean and its goals? Arvind Jain: Glean is solving perhaps the most urgent problem in today's workplace: helping people find and access the information they need to do their best work.


Elon Musk sits down with Tucker Carlson for an exclusive two-part interview event

FOX News

Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk weighs in on the dangers of artificial intelligence, the future of Twitter and more in an exclusive'Tucker Carlson Tonight' interview. Billionaire tech tycoon Elon Musk sat down with Fox News' Tucker Carlson for a wide-ranging discussion that will air next week on "Tucker Carlson Tonight." In the interview, Musk will discuss the controversy surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and how it could change the planet forever. TUNE IN TO WATCH PART 1 OF TUCKER CARLSON'S INTERVIEW WITH ELON MUSK MONDAY, APRIL 17 AT 8 PM ET ON FOX NEWS CHANNEL In a preview of the interview released Friday, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO sounded the alarm about AI, calling it "more dangerous" than any flawed vehicle. "AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production," Musk told Carlson.


Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have been developing and refining large language models (LLMs) that exhibit remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. The latest model developed by OpenAI, GPT-4, was trained using an unprecedented scale of compute and data. In this paper, we report on our investigation of an early version of GPT-4, when it was still in active development by OpenAI. We contend that (this early version of) GPT-4 is part of a new cohort of LLMs (along with ChatGPT and Google's PaLM for example) that exhibit more general intelligence than previous AI models. We discuss the rising capabilities and implications of these models. We demonstrate that, beyond its mastery of language, GPT-4 can solve novel and difficult tasks that span mathematics, coding, vision, medicine, law, psychology and more, without needing any special prompting. Moreover, in all of these tasks, GPT-4's performance is strikingly close to human-level performance, and often vastly surpasses prior models such as ChatGPT. Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4's capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system. In our exploration of GPT-4, we put special emphasis on discovering its limitations, and we discuss the challenges ahead for advancing towards deeper and more comprehensive versions of AGI, including the possible need for pursuing a new paradigm that moves beyond next-word prediction. We conclude with reflections on societal influences of the recent technological leap and future research directions.


Understanding our place in the universe

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Brian Nord first fell in love with physics when he was a teenager growing up in Wisconsin. His high school physics program wasn't exceptional, and he sometimes struggled to keep up with class material, but those difficulties did nothing to dampen his interest in the subject. In addition to the main curriculum, students were encouraged to independently study topics they found interesting, and Nord quickly developed a fascination with the cosmos. "A touchstone that I often come back to is space," he says. Nord was an avid reader of comic books, and astrophysics appealed to his desire to become a part of something bigger.