The ability to produce passable text with archery combination of known styles on arbitrary combinations of known subjects is not that useful for most knowledge workers. People get concerned about these chat GPT type bots in the economy because they mistake fluency with which it can combine styles and subjects with a adaptable fluid intelligence. There is no flexible human like intelligence in there. It just knows I'm spitting out code. And most of the commands make sense but it doesn't know what sorting actually means. Or that equality isn't quite you need here, or that whatever you say needs to be less than or more than right? No, it'll be very bespoke things I think will be useful at all
Are new AI technologies like ChatGPT about to massively disrupt our world? Drawing from his recent New Yorker article on the topic, Cal explains exactly how programs like ChatGPT work, and uses this knowledge to explain why we can calm our fears about this new technology.
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