Steve discusses Large Language Model AIs such as ChatGPT.

0:00 How do LLMs work?

10:22 Impact of ChatGPT

15:21 AI landscape

24:13 Hallucination and Focus

33:09 Applications

39:29 Future Landscape

References:

Manifold interview with John Schulman of OpenAI:
https://www.manifold1.com/episodes/john-schulman-openai-and-recent-advances-in-artificial-intelligence-16

Blog posts on word vectors and approximately linear vector space of concepts used by the human mind:
https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-future-of-thought-via-thought.html
https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2016/12/towards-geometry-of-thought.html

Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.

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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (Superfocus.ai, SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.

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