It's hard to be unaware of the excitement over the arrival of GPT (Generative
Pre-trained Transformers) from OpenAI, Google and Microsoft. I've used the services
a little and its hard not to believe that they aren't based on a knowledgable
intelligence rather juat a corpus of scrapped documents and sophisticated predictive
text. God only knows what the capability of these tools will be by the time this
topic is scheduled (if it is).
Prior to the event I'll post some resources and encourage everyone to try out at
least one of the services on questions in a domain in which they are knowledgeable,
and also in an domain where they have no or little knowledge. On the day, we will
compare experiences and contemplate the end of civilisation as we know it.
The less technically inclined might prefer to read Phillip Ball's book, The Book of
Minds which looks at the problem of how to understand non-human minds.
After comparing experiences using the tools, we make sure we understand the basics
of the technology and then do a SWOT analysis - Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities
and Threats