Are We At Peak AI?
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It’s been just under a year and a half since ChatGPT - an AI-powered chatbot launched by so-called non-profit OpenAI - ushered in a new era of investor and media hype around how artificial intelligence would change the world. But what if this we're actually at the peak of what generative AI can do? In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the four intractable problems that are stopping Large Language Models like ChatGPT in their tracks - and why they're all-but-impossible to overcome.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.6 | Cool Zone Media. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello and welcome to Better Offline. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm your host, Ed Zittron. |
| 0:17.1 | Better Offline. It's been just under a year and a half since Jack GPT, an AI powered chatbot launched by so-called |
| 0:30.8 | non-profit OpenAI ushered in a new investor in media hype cycle around how AI would change |
| 0:36.4 | the world. ChatGPT's instant success made both OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman overnight celebrities |
| 0:43.1 | as a result of chat GPT's alleged intelligence, which seemingly allowed you to do everything |
| 0:48.9 | from generate an entire essay from a simple prompt to writing entire reams of software code. You can theoretically |
| 0:55.5 | ask it anything, and it will spit out an intelligent sounding response thanks to being |
| 0:59.6 | trained on terabytes of text data, like a search engine that's able to think for itself. |
| 1:04.6 | Eh, big problem is chat GPT doesn't think at all. It doesn't know anything. Chat GPT is actually probabilistic. |
| 1:13.0 | It uses a statistical model to generate the next piece of information in a sequence. |
| 1:17.3 | If you ask it what an elephant is, it'll guess that the most likely answer to that prompt |
| 1:21.3 | is that an elephant is a large mammal and then perhaps describe its features, such as a |
| 1:25.3 | long trunk. |
| 1:26.8 | Chat GPT doesn't know what an elephant is, or what a trunk is, or what the Elephant Huntai family |
| 1:32.3 | is, it simply ingested enough information to reliably guess what an elephant is meant to be, |
| 1:37.7 | or indeed know that that's what you're asking it. |
| 1:40.9 | This is the technology underpinning the latest artificial intelligence boom. It's called |
| 1:45.5 | generative artificial intelligence, and it's powered by large language models. And they underpin |
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