Dispatches
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The Order AI Replaces Jobs
I suspect that any labor that is rules-based — work governed by math, statistics, law, science or engineering — and that doesn't require physical human…
The Interim Period Has Me Worried
While I can agree with the long-term result — less work, more production, new kinds of jobs — I dissent in the short term. Take Hollywood. With AI…
If AI Gives Everyone an Average Income, What Does Average Actually Want to Buy
A thought experiment. If everyone ends up earning an average income — call it UBI — after AI thoroughly does its thing (if), then we want to own what average…
Proprietary Data Can Create an AI Worth Investing In
I've been sending a video around to a bunch of people. It's a tutorial from a channel called Chat with data, posted at the end of March, on using GPT-4 to chat…
I Cloned My Face for Free
There's a 3D copy of me now, and it was generated from just a few photos. I believe it was free. The site is Avaturn, which I shared last week. You upload…
AutoGPT Just Asked Me for My Credit Card
An AI asked me for money this week. First time that's happened. I think it's a bigger deal than it sounds, and I want to say why. We've been running Auto-GPT,…
I Gave AutoGPT a Real Job
I think this is worth sharing. A friend and I are testing Auto-GPT's limits — their coding might be involved here. We asked it to do these five things: 1.…
This Wolfram News Is Bigger Than I Thought
I'm a little distracted, and this Wolfram news is considerably bigger than I was thinking. If it's the plugin news, it's three weeks old. On March 23 OpenAI…
Applying for Plugin Access Is Its Own Thing
Someone sent me Stephen Wolfram's post on the new Wolfram plugin for ChatGPT. Upping our math IQ. The idea is simple. ChatGPT, in Wolfram's words, "can now…
AutoGPT is coming, and it's damned scary and exciting
There's a new kind of program going around called AutoGPT, with a smaller sibling called BabyAGI. It's coming — and it's damned scary and exciting. Basically,…
Infinite Memory Using Pinecone
At the moment, nothing is as useful as a GPT-4 subscription, even though its context memory is currently limited. When that memory is unlimited, we'll all have…
The Code Won't Stop, It Just Won't Be Authored by Humans
In February, GitHub said "GitHub Copilot is behind an average of 46% of a developers' code across all programming languages—and in Java, that number jumps to…