1 big thing: ChatGPT is the talk of Davos

10 Events That Changed History

100+ ChatGPT prompts for creators: Speed up your workflow with AI

1851 The Great Exhibition

1927 Crossing of the Atlantic (NY-Paris, won Orteig Prize)

2022-09-05 FJB Call

2022-12-05 FJB Call

2023-02-27 FJB Call

2023-02 REX Call

2023-03-29 FoTL Call (part 1)

2023-04-11 Meetup: Startups & ChatGPT

A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business

A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype

A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is?

AI And The Limits Of Language

AI argues for and against itself in Oxford Union debate

AI is finally good at stuff, and that’s a problem

AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article

Alternatives to ChatGPT

Amazing "Jailbreak" Bypasses ChatGPT's Ethics Safeguards

An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy.

Analytical Engine (1837)

Apple 1984 Ad

Articles About Generative AI

Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

As Machine Intelligence Gets Better, Skeptics Keep Moving the Goalposts About What Consciousness Looks Like

Audio CDs (1983 Compact Discs or CDs)

Autonomous: A Novel (2017)

Azeem's commentary: My second robot brain

Beyond Zero and One: Machines, Psychedelics, and Consciousness

Big Tech was moving cautiously on AI. Then came ChatGPT.

Bill Gates and Elon Musk are wrong: Artificial intelligence is not going to take over the world (wrong premise)

Bots Are Distorting Many Human Interactions

Cassette (Decks) Recorders (1963)

ChatGPT + Jerry’s Brain?

ChatGPT 3.5 has a voice and ears!!

ChatGPT and Education

ChatGPT as muse, not oracle

ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving

ChatGPT Changes Everything, But Not in the Way You Think

ChatGPT Creator Is Talking to Investors About Selling Shares at $29 Billion Valuation

ChatGPT Ecosystem

ChatGPT Has the Memory of a Goldfish

ChatGPT in the Classroom (Version 1.1 Clean)

ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. But it can still be amazingly useful

ChatGPT is a bullshitter

ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence (hmm)

ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think

ChatGPT lifespan math (it doesn’t understand life spans)

ChatGPT Lowers Its Rates Substantially

ChatGPT plugins

ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base - analyst note

ChatGPT Strikes at the Heart of the Scientific World View

ChatGPT Writes a Mint Mobile Ad

ChatGPT: Mansplaining as a Service

ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue

ChatGPT: What have we learnt, what do we need to learn next?

ChatGPT: Will It Transform the World of Health Care?

Chinese Net Events

Chinese Room (1980)

Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data (2020 pdf)

CODE Presents: The Age of AI, GPT, Azure Open AI and Copilot by Markus Egger

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

Computers could develop consciousness and may need 'human' rights, says Oxford professor

Could an A.I. Chatbot Rewrite My Novel?

Creating Convincing Videos of People Saying Things They Didn't Say

Customized Prompt Sets

Cyberconsciousness

Daguerrotype (1839)

Dark Side of ChatGPT

Deep Blue Beats Kasparov (1997)

Do Animals and Computers “Understand” Language and Concepts?

Dolly (1996)

eMail Becomes a Necessity (1998-2000)

Enumerated Wisdom

Ex Machina (2015 film)

Experts Warn ChatGPT Could Democratize Cybercrime

Face Swapping in Videos (2018 Faceswapping)

Fake News

Fax Becomes a Necessity (1989-91)

First Controlled Chain Reaction (1942)

First Humans Landing on the Moon (1969)

First Powered Flight (1903)

First Radio Broadcasts (1894)

First Transatlantic Flight (1919, Alcock and Brown in Vickers Vimy)

First US National Radio Broadcast

First US Transcontinental Railroad (1869)

First US Transcontinental Telegraph (1861)

Fly Shuttle (1733)

Gallery of Data Visualization Milestones

Generative AI and Our Kids

Generic Artificial Consciousness

Golden Ages (metaphoric)

GPT-3 Is the Best Journal I've Ever Used

GPT-3, Law, & the Nature of Existence

GPT-4 apps BabyAGI and AutoGPT could have disruptive implications for crypto

Her (2013 film)

Here's a snippet of a conversation I had with it yesterday. We have nothing to worry about.

How AIs, like ChatGPT, Learn

How ChatGPT Kicked Off an A.I. Arms Race

How does GPT Obtain its Ability? Tracing Emergent Abilities of Language Models to their Sources

How Many Humans Will Computers Replace?

How to Build a Chatbot with GPT-3

How to Build a Self-Conscious Machine

How to improve your ChatGPT prompts and responses

How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide (xlnt)

How to Use ChatGPT and Still Be a Good Person

How Will We Know What Is Real and What Is Fake?

I brought my childhood imaginary friend back to life using A.I. (#GPT3) and it was one of the scariest and most transformative experiences of my life. (1/23)

I loaded journal entries from the past 10 years into GPT-3 and then started asking it questions: (xlnt thread)

I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language (whaaa?)

I’m sorry, I simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this. (peanut butter sandwich from VCR)

IBM PC (1981)

Information Jamming

Inside the "Mind" of ChatGPT

Is AI leading us to abundance or abundantly hard times?

Is ChatGPT Really a “Code Red” for Google Search? Maybe Not.

It’s Sentient: Meet the classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence programs

It’s Time to Pay Attention to A.I. (ChatGPT and Beyond)

KDKA Begins to Broadcast (1920)

Kodak Brownie Camera (1900)

kyrick/prompt-parrot

Letter from ChatGPT to Vernor Vinge

LLMs Like ChatGPT Have “Hallucinations” That Mix Fact and Fancy, and Can’t Tell the Difference

LMQL

Machines That Will Think and Feel: Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy—and that should scare us

Many Troll ChatGPT. Bing Suffers.

Media Breakthrough Events

Mimicking Specific Human Voices (Voice Cloning)

My Aha!s About Soil and Growing/Raising Food

My Event Schedule

My exclusive interview with ChatGPT about AI, climate tech and sustainability

My Favorite Nuggets (and Narratives)

My History Canon

My Thoughts on ChatGPT

Netscape IPO (8/9/95)

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 (2021 pdf)

One machine to rule them all: A ‘Master Algorithm’ may emerge sooner than you think

OpenAI to Offer New Version of ChatGPT for a $20 Monthly Fee

OpenAI Was Working to Release GPT 4, Decided to Launch ChatGPT Quickly Instead

Opinion: What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue.

Phonograph (1878)

Photographs of Dead in Miller's Cornfield (1862)

Pong (1972)

Privilege (social inequality)

Prompt Engineers Are Getting $400k?

Promptcraft: Guidebook for Generative Media in Creative Work (2023)

Prompts to Run

Prove To The Court That I Am Sentient

Randomized prompts from lists with progrock-stable is my new best thing. "age adjective job bodyType genre from country, adjective lighting"

Recorded Media Are No Longer Trustworthy

Revitalizing Cities

Robot passes self-awareness test

Sachs on ChatGPT: I think we need to separate territorial fears from existential fears.

Scientists See Advances in Deep Learning, a Part of Artificial Intelligence

Second Voice (2022 as Joshu)

Sedol Vs Alpha Go (2016)

Software Passing the Turing Test

Steam Engine (1760s)

Systems Built on ChatGPT

T4T S01E05: Machine Learning for Thinking (Alice and Sam)

T4T S01E08: Funding Tools for Thinking (Andrew, James, John)

T4T S01E13: AI and Consciousness (James and JohnB)

T4T S01E14: Digital Gardening (Maggie and Rob)

Taglines

Talking to AI might be the most important skill of this century

Tech Imitating People

Text to Image Generators

Text to Image Prompt Books and Sites

Text to Video Generators

The Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (xlnt)

The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT

The Constitution of Knowledge (2018 xlnt)

The Dark Side of AI: A Warning from Jordan Peterson (scary truth about ChatGPT)

The genie escapes: Stanford copies the ChatGPT AI for less than $600

The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life

The Great A.I. Awakening (xlnt)

The inside story of how ChatGPT was built from the people who made it

The Inside Story of ChatGPT’s Astonishing Potential (2023, xlnt)

The Real Threat from AI

The Rotting of the Republican Mind

The tech industry was deflating. Then came ChatGPT.

The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness (2016)

Tips for Using ChatGPT Well

Today was my first day working with GPT-3 on all my tasks, thanks to ChatGPT. Much like Copilot, I can see using this every day for just about everything. I would happily pay for it. (thread)

Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use

Towards an AI Economy That Works for All (2019)

Transformers Make NLP Accessible. People Experiment. It Works.

Twitter Milestones

Two longposts on ChatGPT + an AI Alignment megapost soon!

Variants of Capitalism

Virtual Brand Promoters Are So Lifelike, You Just Might Believe What You See

Walkman (1979)

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.

What is consciousness, and could machines have it? (2017 article)

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? (xlnt)

What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have?

What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge (2016)

Whole Brain Simulation (Emulation)