Really depressing that Bill Gates is impressed by the idea of "chatting with lincoln".
Is this what we were missing in school? Our teachers dressing up with a tophat and bullshitting that they're lincoln and making stuff up?
Is this what we were missing in school? Our teachers dressing up with a tophat and bullshitting that they're lincoln and making stuff up?
> When Brian and Ben reached the lab, the computer was running but the tree-robot was folded and motionless. “Robin, activate.” ...
> “There now exists a procedural model for the behavior of a human individual, based on the prototype human described in section 6.001 of the CYC-9 knowledge base. Now customizing parameters on the basis of the example person Brian Delaney described in the employment, health, and security records of Megalobe Corporation.”
> A brief silence ensued. Then the voice continued.
> “The Delaney model is judged as incomplete as compared to those of other persons such as President Abraham Lincoln, who has 3596.6 megabytes of descriptive text, or Commander James Bond, who has 16.9 megabytes.”
Quoted from https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/09/remembering-doug... see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37402925 . June 19, 2024 - looks like we're right on schedule, or thereabouts.
> [Doug] said, though, that he found it “increasingly worrisome that these models [LLMs] train on CONVINCINGNESS rather than CORRECTNESS”
That's quite a neat encapsulation of the difference between CYC (or what I understand of it from that article) and today's GPTs.
I feel sci-fi authors have their work cut out for them...