ChatGPT-3 and Stable by Fusion are working on a new type of computer system. It's able to read what people have typed in, but it can't tell which is good or bad. The only way you would know whether this was a brilliant flash of insight would be if people looked at it and said, oh, that's a really interesting idea. But the originality comes from the person using it. That means, you know, playing with it over the weekend, and I typed in, make me a country in Western SongBy somebody who made a lot of money in social media - they're not giving the money back.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on analyst Benedict Evans to talk about Chat GPT and machine learning (5:00), how it gets things wrong (10:00), the “fluent bullshit” problem (12:00), whether this is a genuine breakthrough moment (15:20), what this means for humans (18:25), “prompt engineering” (23:00), humans as curators rather than creators (26:40), tech’s mid-life crisis (27:45), the future of “search” (32:10), using AI do make “no-code” software (35:00), where we go from here (39:00), and the illusion of creativity (42:45).
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