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Bestof2022: 1/2: #ArtificialIntelligence: Foundational Models argued to be genuine and perhaps unlimited competition for human work. 2/2: #AI: Birth of the Foundational Models. Ludwig Siegele, Economist. (Originally posted June 28, 2022)

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#Bestof2022: 1/2: #ArtificialIntelligence: Foundational Models argued to be genuine and perhaps unlimited competition for human work. 2/2: #AI: Birth of the Foundational Models. Ludwig Siegele, Economist.
(Originally posted June 28, 2022)

https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2022/06/11/huge-foundation-models-are-turbo-charging-ai-progress

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0:30.1

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchler, super computers, ultra computers, good

0:41.7

computer. I learned from Ludwig Siegel, the European Business Editor, former US Technology Editor,

0:48.4

that a company GraphCore is building a good computer, not for the fact that it's better than

0:55.0

other computers, but its name for a man Jack Good, who in 1965 speculated that we would have

1:02.1

ultra intelligence in our computers. Well, the good computer aims to be that vision,

1:09.4

going from the four-year-old model of 110 parameters to the building 500 trillion parameters.

1:18.4

What is a parameter? I welcome Ludwig to help me understand the world of man and machine,

1:24.2

because this journey is going to take us into a machine that very much appears to be creative.

1:31.7

Ludwig, a very good evening to you. This is wonderful. What is the parameter that we would go from

1:36.3

110 in a computer and bragging about it as artificial intelligence to 500 trillion,

1:42.3

and we're still hungry? What can it do now that it couldn't do then? Good evening to you.

1:46.8

Good evening, and thanks for having me. A very good question. What's the parameter?

1:50.9

A parameter is, I mean, to sort of, it's a number, of course, and it's a probability.

1:57.7

So these foundation models, these big AIs, these big computers, these good computers,

2:02.4

we're talking about, basically, at least the software is a bunch of numbers and millions of numbers

2:08.9

and now trillions of numbers. These numbers represent probabilities. So when these computers,

2:15.9

so these models work, they use these numbers to make a decision which word comes next for instance,

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