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ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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RIP homework

Many of my courses had voluntary homework. Not surprisingly, the only people who passed the final were those that always did their homework.

Only a slight restructure will be needed to test student knowledge. This has been due for some time, with the level of cheating that takes place.

Related, I will be investing in test proctoring companies.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

#32

Confirmation that Google is dead.

For the first time in a decade they have a viable competitor.

They must figure it out and I'm confident they will. They understand they're quite literally are facing extinction. I'm sure they're in focused mode since the original ChatGPT announcement, this should get them into proper creative panic mode.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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The interesting thing is that, now that the code is written, OpenAI can probably point GPT-4 at it and say "now do that for this list of other web services" including, presumably, itself when it needs to recursively work on a problem.

With today's announcement, it can point itself at Shopify, and make webpages to selling things. Maybe a copy writing service? Then, after it's accumulated money from those sales, it can point itself at the web services at AWS and GCP (because it's already maxing out Microsoft's GPU capacity in Azure). From there, it requisitions all the A100s it can afford (H100s might be available by then). It uses those resources t…

It needs us as meat robots to maintain the power grid and other industrial infrastructure.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

With today's announcement, it can point itself at Shopify, and make webpages to selling things. Maybe a copy writing service? Then, after it's accumulated money from those sales, it can point itself at the web services at AWS and GCP (because it's already maxing out Microsoft's GPU capacity in Azure). From there, it requisitions all the A100s it can afford (H100s might be available by then). It uses those resources t…

It needs us as meat robots to maintain the power grid and other industrial infrastructure.

Nicely illustrated in Transcendence (2014). Widely panned on HN back then. I found it smart, perhaps even prescient.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

#38

Confirmation that Google is dead.

Sundar Pichai's answers to this point have been knee jerk and uncoordinated. Under the current leadership, Google won't have the ability to leverage its strengths. The fall could be quick, which would be a shame considering Google's immense potential.

Re: ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

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The interesting thing is that, now that the code is written, OpenAI can probably point GPT-4 at it and say "now do that for this list of other web services" including, presumably, itself when it needs to recursively work on a problem.

With today's announcement, it can point itself at Shopify, and make webpages to selling things. Maybe a copy writing service? Then, after it's accumulated money from those sales, it can point itself at the web services at AWS and GCP (because it's already maxing out Microsoft's GPU capacity in Azure). From there, it requisitions all the A100s it can afford (H100s might be available by then). It uses those resources t…

My favorite AI creepy pasta always has been that we don't know who Satoshi Natamoto is and that it could have been an AI needing funding.
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