#Bestof2022: 2/2: #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: 2/2: #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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| 0:35.3 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchett with Ludwig Siegel. The European Business Editor, |
| 0:41.6 | former US Technology Editor at the Economist magazine, writing about a new thought of what a |
| 0:48.8 | computer can do. This is artificial intelligence, artificial emphasis. However, artificial is |
| 0:55.6 | okay when you're writing code. I need to understand a GPT-3 with a codex program and a co-pilot program. |
| 1:03.7 | Does this mean that the code writing that is done for I marvel at the video games that are |
| 1:10.1 | getting more and more detailed? Is that what a foundational model can do to write code for those |
| 1:15.4 | creators? That's one of the things it can do. When GPT-3 was developed or trained, |
| 1:24.3 | people expected it to do all things, having to do with language writing, sentiment analysis, |
| 1:30.5 | and all that stuff. But then they discovered that actually this thing can also code. If I tell |
| 1:35.2 | it, write me or program me this website, it would spit out the necessary code for that. |
| 1:43.0 | So OpenAI, which created GPT-3 and Microsoft, which is a partner of OpenAI, |
| 1:52.0 | they developed retrained a little bit more and it turns out it can now really program well. |
| 1:57.4 | So a co-pilot and codex, which you can do, you can sit down and with you voice, you can tell |
| 2:02.6 | the computer, okay, program this webpage or this game or whatever and it does it within seconds and |
| 2:08.5 | these programs are actually pretty good. And what Microsoft told me is that the people who use |
| 2:16.2 | co-pilot, at least in the most important programming language, a third of their code is now |
| 2:23.2 | written by co-pilot, which is a lot. The big companies all have foundational models, |
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