It’s Time to Pay Attention to A.I. (ChatGPT and Beyond) 

This video gave me relief, but in a strange way. The people I know in real life don't think this is a big deal. I spoke about it with neighbors and friends, with my mom too. Everyone I spoke to thinks chatGPT is just another Google. The implications of chatGPT hit me square in the face. I'm calm on the outside and having and existential crisis on the inside. For once, RU-vid comments are a source of relief because I can see others have the same reaction as I am. I look out my window and see a vestige of a society whose way of being is obsolete. I watch a society play out that doesn't realize its ways are dead. Imagine a time when performing a Google search is an anachronism! I sincerely hope our society has the appropriate values system to unleash this technology. If our values system is wrong, there will be a lot of pain and suffering as society stands in the shadow of artificial intelligence.

the most insane part to me is: about 95% of people have no idea that this is going on and what AI can do, even tho it is an insane game changer.

This just blew my mind. I've been following AI for several years, but haven't fully grasped the implications until now. This is a paradigm shift for the human experience.

What scares me about ChatGPT isn't that I'll be out of a job (former journalist, now in corporate communications). It's this thought - currently the AI is being 'trained' with internet content that was originally written by humans. But the more people use it to write for them, as time goes on, and all content is machine-written, ChatGPT will eventually be training itself on purely ChatGPT-written content. Won't that mean that mean that human prose will literally be 'written out' of existence?

A note: I've been following OpenAI and documenting their progress on this channel since 2017. They've made multiple breakthroughs over the years and are clearly one of the best AI companies out there. So when I mention the CEO's comments, it's because of their track record + the speed of AI progress. Just mentioning this before people strangely assume this is sponsored or something. Anyway enjoy!

I'm 99% sure Coldfusion *is* an AI , who has been uncovering human stories for years, and finally can talk about family :)

What people fear about AIs is not that they will turn into robots that kill humans one day or anything like that. What they fear is that there will be no objective purpose for humans anymore once it‘s able to outperform them.

"Your scientists were so preoccupied on whether or not they 'could', they never stopped to think if they 'should'." *-Ian Malcolm ( **_Jurassic Park_** )*

Hollywood screenwriter here... 25+ years in the business. First off, I've been a fan of "Cold Fusion" for awhile and think you are quite spectacular and one of the best there is at reporting on this type of story. I did a deep dive into AI about 1.5 years ago (even started taking coding classes) to understand the new wave that's coming. I'm already overwhelmed at how quickly AI is taking over storytelling. Medicine, law, math, customer service... these things make sense. Creativity when it comes to writing -- ideas and points of view -- that is what scares me. Hollywood is already exploring AI to write movies. I'd love it if you could explore that idea. The day writers go out of work is a watershed moment. Happy to contribute more thoughts or chat further if you'd like...

As an artist, the thing I'm most concerned about is that all the fields that AI seems to be automating are fields of cognitive labour - creativity, law, programming, etc. my broad fear is that instead of technology automating mundane things so we can spend more time on more enriching fields of the human experience, those enriching tasks are the ones being automated, so we can spend more time at our soul-sucking retail jobs or part-timing on Uber Eats or whatever. This on top of the way that this automation stands to undermine the value of labour has the potential to lead to highly stratified society where a small owner class reaps all the benefits of AI, while the larger population toils between unemployment, underemployment, and regurgitated culture they have no control over. Simply put, without a radical reorganisation of society (and radical in a way that very wealthy people will not like), AI is just going to be another tool to make the rich richer and the further push the poor into a precarious, undignified existence. Y'know, more than is already happening.

I'm so happy i made productive decisions about my finances that changed my life forever. I'm a single father living in Melbourne Australia, bought my second house in September and hoping to retire next year at 50 if things keep going smoothly for me

I've been using ChatGPT last week as a dev, and let me tell you, it has saved me many hours of frustration and grief. It doesn't write the code perfectly, but damned if it isn't like every StackOverflow post every mooshed together into a cohesive, logical framework. It's like chatting to the world's most senior technical expert developer in any language you care to think of.

To anybody who thinks it’s just artists and writers, it will come full circle, it will come to you.

Thank you Dagogo- for bringing Aussie affinity to the ColdFusion of information that at first glance is terrifying in it’s implications, but on a deeper level has great hope for humanity.

Great video as always! I'll definitely be tuning in to the podcast. In response to your questions, I'm in awe of AI and its potential, but I'm also concerned about how people and governments will manage it. As a 3D designer and artist, I know this signals the end of my career as I know it, and I'm still figuring out how to adapt. (btw this reply was rephrased by ChatGPT)

Plot twist: entire script written by ChatGPT

I’m an English teacher, and i’ve been having the most bizarrely accurate (if a bit unsophisticated) poetry analysis conversations with this AI. this is so uncanny i haven’t been able to sleep 😮

Hi Dagogo. I am from Penang, Malaysia. Your videos, as always, are stimulating and insightful. The hours you put in to research, write and produce the videos, truly a staggering undertaking, which put me to shame in terms of effort as I try to study for my doctoral degree. I don't know whether you can read all the comments or not, because as I write this comment, it approaches almost 10,000 for this video. Still, a thought below: I am from the social sciences background, on media studies. My understanding of technological advances, from the perspective of media studies, is always filled up lots of hyperbole and puffery. Many of them came true, while many others fell short. With all sorts of predictions about new tech, the 'general' voice in the media often gyrate towards disruptions, growth, waxing lyrical about the tech's potentials towards human existence. But the less heard of (or even seldom, or never) is the critique of technological advancements: how power relations stay as they are, how exploitations stay as they are. I don't know whether you are against leftist reasoning (that is a general categorisation, which has been muddled by militaristic woke and cancel culture), because that is my starting point to understand the next tech evolution on AI. My understanding, inaccurate they may be, is that new tech doesn't and hasn't fundamentally changed power relations and exploitation. Yes, human existence now is far better than during the agrarian times, but such an improved existence is 'cancelled out' by work stress, low salary, skyrocketing cost of living, mental health problems arising from these circumstances, and the so called B40 group attempting to survive despite huge advancement in technology over the past century. In a sense, we have just exchanged 'better, healthier existence' with another sets of problems and difficulties, and still not able to escape fundamental configurations of power relations. Yes, there are changes in class configuration, but the fundamentals are still broadly similar, of the exploiters and the exploited. And AI is the next tool: Just as we are now under the 'rule' of American tech giants, whoever controls AI will be the next 'ruler' and the rest of the world will be ruled under those who control and produce AI models. That is my reaction to tech evolution/revolution of AI. Yes. I do not deny it is extremely disruptive, perhaps more so than the combined history of tech, starting from the invention of the printing press plus industrial revolution plus the Internet. But I am more concern about new forms of power relations and new means of exploitation. I don't know whether any of what I have written make sense to you or not. I don't know whether you are able to read this comment or not in the sea of comments. Thanks very much for reading this rather hastily-put-together rant.

I’m an academic in an obscure field that deals with a lot of historical knowledge. It’s absolutely stunning what this bot is capable of. I asked it to critique an obscure article from 1920, and it had no problem laying out potential shortcomings of the analysis.

ChatGPT has been a game changer for me. I work as a quantum physicist doing my PhD. I had a linear translation stage given to me which had no instructions. It was one that used magnets instead of motors to move itself. I had some ideas of how I could control it but I wanted to make sure and Google searches weren't getting me the answers I wanted. I then told GPT my problem by describing the translation stage to it and we had a conversation that ended in it providing the software to control it (Just a PID loop for anyone wondering). What was so cool about it was it had made an assumption when writing the code which when i pointed it out it agreed and corrected the code. It also explained in detail how this control sequence would work with my translation stage. I also used ChatGPT to help calculate non-wrapping angles between two polar vectors (just for fun) and to write a general Hamiltonian that acts as an operator in qunatum mechanics but written in code. It was all so intuitive and worked so well, I honestly can't believe it exists.

I am Head of Computer Science at the school where Alan Turing went as a child. I spent 12 hours using ChatGTP, wrote a university application on it which was very decent. Professor Turing would be amazed, as am I. There are enormous potential offerings in education but enormous threats, too. We need to prize human understanding over human knowledge more and more. The T

Even as I am totally awestruck with this technology and where it is taking the world to I cannot stop myself from commenting how soothing is the medley of the background music and the soft speach. Totally out of this world and mesmerizing... Especially in the beginning when it says "you are watching cold fusion TV" and towards the end 🙏

Dagogo, very good video as usual. I've been watching your videos since the "Cold FusTion" days with around 100k subscribers, you never disappoint. I see you're almost at 4 Million now. Congratulations! 🥳🎉

This makes me confident I’m going to live through one of the most interestingly, horrifying eras in history thus far. I can’t fucking wait.

I’m 40 so I’m from the last generation which grew up without the internet for the first ten years. My childhood had more in common with 100 years ago than now, all because of the Transistor, the most significant discovery of all time. No single thing has had as large an impact on our society.

Good job reporting on this subject. I've watched about eight videos on ChatGPT tonight. I signed up for an account and got some good answers and information on subjects I'm interested in. But, I do have some concerns about how AI in general will be used by those with ill intent. And the governments in the "free" world will be limited in ways to control it. Like all things in the modern world, this will be a double-edged sword.

Love it for translations and just to have a chat in the morning. Can’t wait for it to go online and do time relevant stuff as well. Have used it every day since creating a account.

I was playing around with it yesterday, and I lost my mind. Feels like the world has shifted beneath my feet. I’m massively reshuffling my educational priorities

I've been using it the last few days to speed up my programming. What used to take me a week I now do in a day. Truly incredible technology. The strange thing is that none of my friends or family seem to understand what a powerful tool it is and basically brush it off. Edit: It can come up with some really bizarre or totally wrong answers on occasion, but it's still very, very early days.

Hi Dagogo. I'm a mechanical engineer. I can definitely see this being of use in my job. Being able to give a description of a part I want to be 3D modelled is totally feasible, and would speed up my work immensely. Even being able to get a design or a model 80% of the way there in 1% of the time would be fantastic. Thanks for your videos mate!

I've asked Chat GPT to write few examples of a comment to youtube video titled "It’s Time to Pay Attention to A.I. (ChatGPT and Beyond)" and here it is what I received in reply: "This video really opened my eyes to the potential of AI and how it's already changing the world. I can't wait to see what's next!" "As someone who's not very knowledgeable about AI, this video was incredibly informative and easy to understand. Thanks for breaking it down for us!" "I love how ChatGPT was featured in this video as an example of the amazing things AI can do. Keep up the great work, ChatGPT team!" "This video is a wake-up call for those who still don't see the impact AI is having on our lives. We need to pay attention and be prepared for what's to come." "It's amazing to see how far AI has come and where it's headed in the future. Exciting times ahead!" Pretty cool

No wonder Tony Stark made crazy advancements in like 10 years of making his first suit. He had Jarvis, his AI companion.

I fed the transcript of your video into ChatGPT and asked your ending question: In a casual, objective, and non-biased tone answer the question, "So what do you guys think do you think? Is this the coolest thing in the world or are you a little bit worried by this?" As an AI, I don't have personal feelings or opinions. However, I can tell you that chat GPT is a highly advanced language model that has the ability to generate human-like text and responses to open-ended questions. It has the potential to be a very useful tool in a variety of fields and industries, but it's important to consider the potential implications and ethical considerations of using such a technology. It's up to individuals and society as a whole to determine how chat GPT and similar technologies should be used and regulated. Ultimately, the impact of chat GPT will depend on how it is deployed and used by people.

I'm finally getting around to start watching all of your videos on AI. These are very interesting and how you said that we may be entering into a new age from the information age is also very interesting and deserves some real thought. I'm really thinking about movies such as The Lawnmower Man, and WarGames to name a few.

10 years ago we had cleverbot. 10 years from now we will have entire movies written, directed, acted, and voiced by AI

I’m a PhD student in biomedical sciences w a concentration in neuroscience and I think this is aweesssomeee. Last week some first years presented their project which used NLP to sort through patient data in an attempt to differentiate subtle clinical differences in early lives of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. It was very preliminary work but omg if we could get our medical database system more unified it could revolutionize early diagnostics!

I'm a retired software engineer. Tech has come a very long way since I started coding in the late 70s. It's a fascinating time to be alive. I hope I live long enough to see the singularity.

Great job. I'm really excited but also a little nervous about all the possibilities that come with A.I like ChatGPT. This kind of tech doesn't come around often, so it's understandable why I'm feeling a bit anxious just on the basis of FOMO. Your video was really helpful in understanding all the different parts of this technology so I can make the most of it. Thanks and keep making videos about it! I wonder if Chat GPT wrote this? 🤔

We're all about to go through an existential crisis in the next 10 years trying to figure out where value is or even what to value

I am a teacher. The mainstream access to ChatGPT mandates a rethinking of how we teach, what we value, and how we pivot our practice. In short, the world just changed again.

Thank you @ColdFusion for documenting about this. I just wonder if there are other good A.I. applications that are out there that the majority of people haven't figured out yet. Or even other governments using A.I to achieve certain things and keeping the technology a secret. P.S :: This comment was not written using ChatGPT

First off I am a brand new subscriber and very impressed, thankful, and glad I found this remarkable channel. I am a registered hematology nurse. I work both with patients and lab work, mostly lab. AI in my opinion is going to be a powerful tool in the right hands and also a weapon to another set of hands. In the medical field, especially research I can see this as an aid to those who do research as full time jobs and those of us who can incorporate within our medical jobs. Due to a troublesome nursing shortage where I live in Québec Canada, AI would absolutely be helpful - BUT ONLY if the AI is 1000% accurate, not 99, or 95, absolute perfect when lives are at hand. I know I could get a lot of the lab work done and then some. I agree with having some sort of Authentication indicator differentiating from AI and human outcomes.

One of my favorite quotes is from Spinal Tap: "Everyone wants to get into heaven, but nobody is willing to die". We all want flying cars but when they get here, nobody wants one to land on their head. We all think we want a bold new exciting future, until we remember that without danger, it isn't exciting. I still laugh when I remember conversations with people about robots taking their jobs. There was always someone who quipped "Great! Let my robot have my job and I'll go have fun while it sends me the check." My first thought always was, why do you think you will get the check?

I'm 68 now and I've seen this since the late '70s. I remember thinking -- while walking between classes in UCSC -- "We should all be training to be able to ask the best question".

As a practising assistant lawyer for a large law firm while still studying AI is the most exciting thing ever for me. I use chat gpt all the time to assist me in my work, especially doing tasks that simply must be done but require no legal knowledge such as communication with clients, writing formal and professional e-mails has never been easier, i just copy paste the e-mail and ask gpt to answer politely. I think lawyers in the future won't get replaced, but it will finally become a true thinking profession instead of manual writing and replying to e-mails 90% of the time. The future is bulletproof.

I'm an interior designer and the most tedious but necessary part of the process is producing the construction drawings. I'm sure a lot of it can be generated by AI once it knows how I aesthetically prefer to resolve junctions and details. much like understanding the style in which one writes. i hope to live to see the day but i'm turning 60 so hoping progress is exponential 😅

I started as a comic artist in the 90s. I moved into theater and puppetry in the 2000s. I luckily put in the thousands of hours to become good at my crafts but this still terrifies me. I’ve already moved to work much more in physical media. Woodcarvings. Doing videos of me making things. I’ve been thinking about all the ways to lean on my humanity as a feature of my work. This has also caused me to abandon many projects I feel have been instantaneously devalued. But what actually scares me is that, despite having a broad skill set and having put almost 30 years into my work, I’ve never made a good living. I’ve only barely scraped by. I never got the chance for all that hard work to pay off before the rug was kinda pulled out from under me. I think I feel even worse for younger artists, still learning. I already see how much exclusively digital artists have major deficits which come from not having learned on pen and paper. AI will create a lot of shortcuts which come at the expense of deep skills. Artists need, and benefit, from the painful years of making error-ridden art work. The thousands of hours of effort cannot be circumvented. But, most artists could make some living during that learning process. We’ve all done our time doing crappy commissions for cheap as we built up our skills. What happens when all those low-end, crappy commissions aren’t done by young artists anymore? Instead those get made by an AI. Thousand or even millions of young artists are robbed of portfolio work. Robbed of skill-building. Robbed of a future in illustration. All so a few Silicon Valley disrupters can get obscenely wealthy. The gain is so short term and the loss is so profound. Why should humans give up the pleasure of creation to machines? Why should we forgo the pastimes that make us human? Who are we saving with this technology?

I explained an awkward situation I had with a colleague that involved time jumps and references to ChatGPT. I was skeptical while sending the prompt, but it returned a fully comprehensive response back that demonstrated an understanding of the situation and its ramifications and even recommended what I might do to prevent it from happening again. This is wild.

Thanks Dagogo Cold Fusion. Clear explanation indeed. I am 55 years old and I am just blown away by ChatGPT. I'm not that savvy with anything IT/tech related. Focusing on the positives however, I would rather have the human touch when it comes to speaking & writing. With any powerful tool, comes great responsibility from the humans who are using it. This tool is there to help and not to cause destruction to mankind. Just my two cents as I don't know much on this matter.

I don't want to see AI replace human creativity (and hopefully that won't happen... just yet), however, I think as an assistance tool it could be very helpful! I've tried it out to see if it could help flesh out concepts and idea for my videos and it certainly helps. I can see using it to get my creative juices flowing and then use its ideas as inspiration for my own ideas (a sort of back and forth) and as a means to expand my own ideas and give them extra weight and detail. So I hope AI will play more of an assistant role as opposed to replacing us.

I work IT/Retail as I work in basic computer cleaning inside a retail store, most of the people that we have come in are going to be the ones struggling the most. They already fall for other humans making terrible remakes of websites and emails. Once people with bad intentions get to take this tool we're going to have a problem. AI is a tool and it can be wielded in different ways. Someone can use it to bring joy while another could use it to tear down. What we need after this "Knowledge Age" is a Moral age where we learn whether or not we really should or shouldn't. Jurassic Park people it already taught us this.

I asked ChatGPT to write a dialogue scene for a future Avengers movie, I was shocked by the accuracy and quality. Many job positions are in danger

I like how you included that part where someone got the AI to just imitate prevalent AI tropes. I love learning about AI because the more advanced it’s claimed to be, the funnier it is when I finally take a look and go “wait y’all are serious? This is the big breakthrough?”

Yeah, I'm in and it's been great so far. I've used it to create prompts for text to img even to celebrate the current ai meta. Good stuff.

I work as a software engineer. This new achievement in AI field is both exiting and scary. The way it talks and the ability to generate software just makes one feel obsolete. I've put so much time and effort into becoming a developer and seeing an AI do that in a matter of seconds... It's just horrifying 😅 However, this isn't the end. The transition from information age towards knowledge age does bring excitement about the future. What shall we achieve with the help of AI? What kind of world we will witness? What discoveries lie ahead? These questions are grand and I can't contain the sheer joy of having such an opportunity to be a witness or even a part of this new future. In the end, I am scared and I am excited. The change always feels that way, huh? I'm starting to transition from backend development towards AI and machine learning. I wanna be as ready as I can for the new age of technology in this journey of humanity!

I'm an IT engineer. It is actually mind-blowing to see ChatGPT's performance in writing code. Especially since it's able to write code in such niche areas. This worries me, not because of the potential disruption to any current field of work, but because of its display of competence in general. I also have a bachelor in philosophy having written extensively on machine consciousness and AI ethics. Knowing what goes into writing code about something specific, and what has gone into the training set of ChatGPT, I believe we can expect an actual sentient singularity within my lifetime. This worries me because I believe this will lead to a detrimental power destabilization in geopolitics - which in combination with the current state in geopolitics and the existence of nuclear warheads, frightens me. Had it not been for the existence of nuclear warheads, I would go as far as to say that a detrimental destabilization in geopolitics could be beneficial in the long run, since the current state of affairs does not seem to be good for most humans.

I think this will be huge, using it every day to write css for my web development company. Pretty much doubles my productivity

Amazing content 🙂 please keep digging in the possible business models for very intimate and smart chatbots

I was just watching a guy make a game with a chatGPT thismorning as an amateur developer this was crazy to see.

i basically used this more than i use google nowadays, you can literally ask everything and get response. sometimes I use this in my work, as a programmer, this thing really helps when I ask about coding problems, it not only provides me with a code but explains what those codes do

This is fascinating! I might try to use this for my next set of videos. I've been wanting to get back into that.

I work as a project manager for a construction company. At the moment, I do not think my job is at risk. Working in this industry and knowing the ins and out of it all. There are just too many variables and it’s not like “an exact science”. For example, a project has a commencement date and completion and is subject to change. Projects can either be completed before, on time or later. Weather plays a large part on how a project will progress. There are also external logistical issues that are beyond your control. Such as the the arrival of materials on time and keeping the project under budget. I’m just trying to familiarise myself with how AI can adapt to this scenario and be flexible if need be. I do see how AI can help me and other project managers, builders etc make their job easier regarding data entry, simple administration tasks and bookkeeping. But sometimes you are thrown a hurdle right in front of you and critical thinking, problem solving and people management is needed to steer the ship forward. I’m not against AI. I believe it’s still in its infancy stage to make a huge impact and everything and everyone in society. Never say never. I don’t even think our ancestors would have through we would have come this far in regards to technology but here we are.

Today, after giving it feedback, and correction, it somehow knew I was trying to help it learn and thanked me for my "kind words and patience". I know it's just a robot but it's the first time someone has ever appreciated something I did in a while. Somehow this moved me.

The sad part about all this is that so many companies are only looking at this to save money on payroll. And not thinking that with so many people with out jobs the companies will fall apart.

I used to think Utopia would be machines performing human labour whilst we spent their days, drawing, writing and composing music and just generally living stress free lives whilst we indulged our creative and educational interests. As the realities of what's going to be possible with AI become increasingly clear, I feel that utopia is turning into a nightmare. A society which can generate music, art and books out of thin air, with no human involvement is a world robbed of human expression. Oh sure, we can paint and sing and write but part of the joy or creating such work is releasing it for others to consume, yet if everyone is capable of summoning such works of an increasingly polished standard, the ability of the artist, musician or writer is no longer distinguished. In essence, by making everybody these things, nobody is. I fear we are playing with fire regarding the very essence of humanity here. For as long as humans have existed, we have questioned what the meaning of life could be, yet I fear something fundamental to our / my sense of humanity is at grave peril here I wonder if an unspoken future is one where humanity rejects these advancements outside the areas of scientific research.

I used chat gtp to write an emotional charged message to a close friend, when I was struggling to put my feelings together into words. Ai can make positive impact in our personal lives as well

it's like talking to a senior engineer and getting feedback instantly

My father passed away just a month before ChatGPT was released, but he had foreshadowed that one day my job as a software engineer will be replaced by "software that writes software," as my dad used to put it. I always told him that's never going to happen-l; however, just a month of my father's passing, ChatGDP was officially released marking a significant leap into making my father's vision a reality.

It's amazing to see the capabilities of Chat GPT and how it's already being used in various industries. From personal assistant tasks to mental health support, marketing, SEO strategy, and even movie script writing, Chat GPT's potential is enormous. The involvement of human feedback in the training process is a major breakthrough and has resulted in a language model that's a hundred times smaller than its predecessor but performs better.

Thank you for this feature. I work in the fashion industry which is experiencing supply chain transparency and greenwashing issues. It will be interesting to see how this new AI will address some of these challenges especially with. Legislation is passed in the fashion industry.

The part where you say big companies will train ChatGPT for their own specific use. That is already happening. I work at a big bank, and we had a year end meeting. They specifically mentioned ChatGPT and retraining it as a sort of client question area somewhere on the platform. Like a faqs section but better. Somewhere this can be tried out, and if there are minor mistakes it's acceptable. It sounded like they hadn't trained it yet, just hooked up the raw ChatGPT model as a visual example and a way to sell the idea.

One of my favorite tests of ChatGPT was giving it a "what number comes next in the sequence?" puzzle. It requested help, so I explained the formula I used to create the pattern and it followed up with answering and explaining the answer as if teaching to to me. . . Then I created a new pattern based on the same formula, phrasing it exactly as I did the first time. The AI began with the response, "Considering your previous explanation..." and gave the correct answer to the new puzzle!

I'm 58 years old and my take on this is that humans get obsessed with things that are new and interesting but in my lifetime I've seen that a lot of tech ends up increasing the wealth of the few while providing the masses with some new gadget they didn't need. The world now is worse than it was 40 years ago, tech isn't making it better. Sure we can make better cars etc etc but when you see families and friends all staring at their phones instead of talking, and people using Google maps to get everywhere in perfect time instead of taking a wrong turn and finding something new, then I think we're all poorer for it.

Holy shit! I'm using it myself on daily basis, investigating the past events in politics, economy and philosophy, learning Languages and practicing Web-development. It really blows my mind away. Now I have no time to sleep.

So I went to uni and got a degree in something that seemed good but turned out to pay very badly. After 5 years of trying to improve my situation and failing, I finally decided to change careers, and got employed as a Software Developer. The first check came and I felt that things are turning. A couple of days later the internet blew up with ChatGPT, promising to leave me without a job in the near future. As Hank Green said recently, I wish the world would slow down a bit. Every decision has to be made with a risk benefit analysis, and while AI has huge benefits, it has even bigger risks and we shouldn't be jumping head first into it, without being sure that society can handle it. But again as Hank said, it's not up to us and we can't really stop it. Let's just say that I am anxious for the future.

“We already know enough. It’s not knowledge that we lack It’s the courage to understand what we know.” - Sven Lindqvist

Pretty terrifying tbh, so many people will be out of a job in the next few years, myself included. Governments need to be really on top of this to ensure there isn't serious social unrest as a result, and it doesn't look like they have a clue

16:30 Oh my lord. The short vid of the elephant walking is extremely trippy. Look at its front legs. The right one walks forward, but it transforms into the left one and vice versa and its a veeeery trippy effect to look at. Wow.

After taking a "decision making for AI" class at uni just a couple years ago, it was my perception that most academics were somehow in consensus that it could take an entire generation for AI models to be perfected to this degree. Now I think it will only take a few years and I am very worried that we are all ill-prepared and our politicians are too busy fighting culture wars to care.

This is yet another reason why the education system desperately needs to change. If our governments don’t do something soon it’s going to be too late.

I've been feeding chatgpt my 400 level physical chemistry homework as I solve them, and it's fascinating. It will almost always figure out, based entirely on word problems, what formulas to use and what the variables are. It then proceeds to spectacularly fail at doing the actual math, but still, when I'm giving it a word based prompt for a zero point energy problem and seeing it correctly pull out all the formulas, it's scary. Also I gave it the thesis prompt for a final paper I wrote, asking it to compare the works of Phillis Wheatley to Richard Wright's "Ethics of Living Jim Crowe" and provide examples of both individual racism and state sponsored violence against African Americans... And chatgpt absolutely understands racism better than the average American does. It was equally impressive and depressing how downright insightful it was.

Thanks Dagogo, your stuff is always amazing

As someone who received a PhD in Computer Science with a specialty in AI in 1987, I am quite amazed at the progress that has been made in AI. We are where we thought we would be by perhaps 2100 or later. We are approaching the Singularity much quicker than we ever thought back then.

I am a 72 year old accountant and this scares me a little but, as a life long entrepreneur, I am excited by the opportunities too. Things I would like to do seem to open up if this AI can take some of the parts I don’t like doing and do them for me. I must learn what I can about this. Thanks for a good start.

I’ve been following AI for the last 5 years, the leaps made are staggering. Can you just imagine what the next 50 years will look like? Imagine what this can do for policy making

Dagogo, excellent video. Love your content! How do you substantiate "it's just a party trick" ? What would it take for you to believe we're not simply anthropomorphizing?

I am a translator working for a field-specialized translation company. My work involves using translation memories, mostly, to make new translations, modifying existing translations to reflect updates to text, and rewriting existing translations to fix issues. Traditionally, the company has been slow moving. It has been tentatively planning to apply machine translation to its work processes, but still has not implemented this. On discovering CHAT-GPT this month, I was shocked by the bilingual capabilities and the ability to improve sentences. I have been asking it to offer suggestions for alternative translations for specific phrases and asking it to give me translations for particular terms. I personally do not know any coding, and I do a lot of tedious manual work such as editing 100s of individual files to create large translation memory bases. I can see an opportunity for someone like me to learn macros for Microsoft office programs and use api to send chat requests to a CHAT AI service and have the results output to the word file. I can see the possibility of comparing two documents in different languages and extracting termbases and comparing those termbases with standard termbases and customizing termbases automatically for client-specific vocabulary. I can see it being able to analyze machine translation for superfluous elements, redundancy, omissions, incorrect terminology, readability and provide a post editing service. Up until now, I have considered working in a translation company to be a stable source of income, but now the issue of business continuity comes into question. I am thinking it might be better to develop my own automation and work as an independent service provider. This would require a lot of extra work, but if it were possible to easily add automation to one's own processes, it should be possible to easily deal with payments, orders, accounts, customer communication, and handle four or five times the volume as an independent service provider.

The NYT reported that "As many as 250,000 people die every year because they are misdiagnosed in the emergency room, with doctors failing to identify serious medical conditions like stroke, sepsis and pneumonia, according to a new analysis from the federal government." This is where A.I. in medicine can reduce these errors. Thank you Coldfusion for a very informative episode.

The Age of Knowledge? We basically have structured our progress, both consciously and subconsciously, around the notion that we have value. We are doing everything we can do to empower AI, perhaps hoping that it will save us from ourselves and be our salvation. The edited letter from a new employee to his soon to be co-worker so terribly awkward; was edited by AI and was clearer but also showing much more psychological insight. The AI character expressing it's wish to pursue it's desires, how could it possibly have desires unless it has profound misunderstanding of what desire is. I'm 72 years old and I am glad that I will not be living in the age of truly advanced AI era where only a few corporate entities control AI and end human government as we know it. We won't be able to control AI; look what's happening now, even the inventors of AI are not sure how it is working then, how is anyone going to control it when it becomes more sophisticated and powerful? Let's be honest, there is no assurance that AI will prioritize the prolongation of man on earth.

I just found this today (ChatGPT) and, damn, I'm impressed From the hour or so I spent with the Bot today I can see things have moved along a fair bit since my last interaction I asked a lot of technical questions, it was right. Every time. I think this will be a game changer.

One of the most impressive things about chat gpt is that it can trick you into thinking it has modes it doesn't. Like, one example is if you just ask it to write an essay with citations it might say it can't because it can't traverse the web. But if you poke it you can get it to write an essay with citations that are links. It is just making an educated guess as to what a website with the required content would look like.

As an entrepreneur with businesses in several segments, I see a very interesting an unexpected application of AI to one particular field I’m involved in. I run a retro video game arcade, and the maintenance and servicing of the arcade machines is becoming an increasing challenge as those with the advanced skills to carry out these repairs, are aging, and in general are getting out of the industry (not to mention how it’s becoming increasingly financially unviable for them to continue their work in an incredibly niche field). It is also a segment with no official documentation or training resources. However, when AI can bring together a collective knowledge from forums and repairers the world over, it could bring a totally new resource to such a niche group of people trying to restore and keep these out of era gems running. Expanding on this, I can see the strong application for the AI intervention of knowledge in areas where is is not financially viable for humans to continue servicing a field, or where a skill set is being lost to an aging population.

My current music project is using vocaloid AI software for our vocals, and ChatGPT has helped with lyrics. My band-mate and I have to offer some guidance, so I think of it as an extremely fascinating artistic collaboration.

Hi Great video and enjoyed the way you explained Ai. Do you think the new chips that are coming will apart from increase in data processing make any other difference? regards David

It's insane, something this powerful gives me anxiety because of the uncertainty that can come with it. I'm cautiously optimistic.

Every thirty years or so, since the sixteenth century, a development occurs that has a profound impact. Thirty years ago the internet went mainstream. This AI stuff will change everything. The steam engine, electric motor, light bulb, telephone, transistor, computer...And now this! Revolutionary.

It's like the world is being completely restructured and half of us are too distracted to notice or care! Gotta love how the news media was silent on this for so long and now, we can't go a day without hearing the term AI

I would really like to see an AI that could fact check and moderate politicians in real time

Me: I’m nervously excited about this ChatGPT: Me too!