by Jonathan | Mar 18, 2024 | Short Takes
Some Excel loved manages to get OpenAI’s GPT-2 into an Excel spreadsheet. It also comes with a tutorial on how transformers work.
by Jonathan | Mar 12, 2024 | AI, Short Takes
Ars Technica After reportedly interviewing dozens of people and reviewing over 30,000 documents, [the legal firm hired to investigate Altman’s firing] found that while the prior board acted within its purview, Altman’s termination was unwarranted....
by Jonathan | Feb 4, 2024 | Short Takes
That’s roughly the equivalent of having added an additional state to the grid over just the last three years. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/over-2-percent-of-the-uss-electricity-generation-now-goes-to-bitcoin/
by Jonathan | Sep 15, 2023 | Short Takes
WSJ has a story on why the US doesn’t have any. The really short version seems to be the long R&D breaks we took during the Vietnam War and the War On Terror. An irony lost on the authors: actual, poorly planned wars, decreased our capability for future wars....
by Jonathan | Sep 9, 2023 | Short Takes
Ars Technica: No detectors “reliably distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated content.” This really says it all — OpenAI can’t detect when things have been written with OpenAI. Awesome.