
AI: An ancient nightmare?
HistoryExtra podcast
00:00
Chat GPT: The Path to AI
Underneath chat GPT there's a huge range of different neural networks doing different things for chat GPT and so clearly they're very capable. They acquire in their training capabilities that we didn't explicitly intend them to have. Most of the uses of these systems are mundane like summarising text or extracting key bullet points from texts. We should gently deflate ideas about general intelligence I think that's not what I'm excited about certainly not from the near term as I see it.
Play episode from 18:55
Transcript


