Stephen ColesDavid Kestenbaum’s story about #GPT for This American Life was strangely beneath their usual standards. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/greetings-people-of-earth/act-one-16 Not only did he talk only to Microsoft employees (a company that had a direct stake in OpenAI’s success), he approached the tech with barely an ounce of skepticism at all. (Though he did admit he had no use for the tool in his own life.) Sadly, apparently they got so much positive feedback they recently decided to re-air it. #AI #StocasticParrot
First Contact - This American Life
We’ve witnessed a revolution in A.I. since the public rollout of ChatGPT. Our Senior Editor David Kestenbaum thinks that even though there’s been a ton of coverage, there’s one thing people haven’t talked much about: have these machines gotten to the point that they’re starting to have something like human intelligence? Where they actually understand language and concepts, and can reason? He talks with scientists at Microsoft who’ve been trying to figure that out.