I am amazed by the recent release of chat GPT and what it can do. It is a program that seems to actually understand the English language in every way.
You can request the system to compare the governing styles of Calvin Coolidge to Julius caesar, and then converted into a limerick, and then it does it Within seconds.
There were a few types of AI out there, but nothing has ever come close to what this is. Every instance of technology I think of, it seems to have been a slow steady advancement-- voice recognition, digital photography, internet, everything has developed gradually.
Really, ChatGPT is like technolog from 2038 instantly dropped into late 2022.
I remember a few years ago, Trump said he was excited about some of the amazing technology that was about to come out, but then he decided it was best not to say anything.
Could this be suppressed technology released ti the masses?
The original technology used to be called ANN (Artificial Neural Network). It had been there for almost 4 decades, and around 2000s the field just died out, with the claim that it was not very feasible to do much.
They were partially correct. The technology itself was pretty capable, but it required huge amount of computation to make it do anything impressive. The tech was nothing but a mathematical network that required massive amount of computation. The bigger the network, the better the "AI"
At the same time - late 90s early 2000s - there was a massive build up of computational power (think Amazon AWS) and Graphics Co-processors (think Gaming). Turns out, the Graphics Co-processors were exactly suited not just for gaming but also for the AI.
So here is my thesis - AI was never a suppressed tech. It was out there in the open, but out of reach of most people due to the requirement of massive computational power. Everything necessary for this was already present in early 2000s.
What was the missing ingredient? DATA SETS.
AI is only as good as its Data Sets, and the data set needs to come from us. The more we feed the beast the better it learns.
What happened in 2000s?
Social Media!! Yes, Social Media was nothing but a way to get us to feed the data sets to the beast.
Ever since Clinton deregulated the telecom industry and ushered in the age of Silicon Valley, everything was driven exactly to this point. First the Internet for connectivity. Then the storage for being able to store data. Then the computation. Then the social media for the actual data. And finally they had everything necessary to create their AI.
👍 Summed up in one word GOOGLE.