EFF Podcast on Kashmir Hill's book on Face recognition, Clear View AI Inc. .... it was interesting that her explanation of how it blew up so fast wasn't really a technical development as much as an ethical one.
Assistant Professor Eden Medina's background as an electrical engineer -- combined with an interest in Latin American history -- led to her research interest in Project Cybersyn, an early computer network designed to regulate Chile's economic transition to socialism during the government of Salvador Allende.
"GPT-3 is the latest and greatest in the AI world, achieving state-of-the-art in a range of tasks. Its main breakthrough is eliminating the need for task-specific fine-tuning. In terms of size, the model drastically scales up once again, reaching 175 billion parameters, or 116x the size of its predecessor."
In 2017, researchers asked: Could AI write most code by 2040? OpenAI’s GPT-3, now in use by beta testers, can already code in any language. Machine-dominated coding is almost at our doorstep. GPT-3…