ChatGPT Unlocks the Most Powerful Force on Earth
And a key idea in the construction of ChatGPT was to have another step after “passively reading” things like the web: to have actual humans actively interact with ChatGPT, see what it produces, and in effect give it feedback on “how to be a good chatbot”.
Stephen Wolfram • What Is ChatGPT Doing ... And Why Does It Work?
Transformative technologies usually follow a top-down diffusion path: originating in government or military contexts, passing through corporations, and eventually reaching individuals - think electricity, cryptography, computers, flight, the internet, or GPS. This progression feels intuitive, new and powerful technologies are usually scarce, capita... See more
The basic concept of ChatGPT is at some level rather simple. Start from a huge sample of human-created text from the web, books, etc. Then train a neural net to generate text that’s “like this”. And in particular, make it able to start from a “prompt” and then continue with text that’s “like what it’s been trained with”.
Stephen Wolfram • What Is ChatGPT Doing ... And Why Does It Work?
Going back to Excel and shifting my metaphor up a level, today ChatGPT sometimes seems more like the original PCs than like Excel (or VisiCalc). It’s a general purpose technology, there’s a command line, and some stuff that’s theoretically magic, and a few things that are extremely useful to a few people, but we don’t yet have the richness of all t... See more
Benedict Evans • Unbundling AI
What ChatGPT represented wasn't a technological breakthrough but an interface revolution—making AI accessible through natural language conversation, all while operating an infrastructure able to sustain the resulting workload and to keep the user experience smooth. This mirrors how the web browser, particularly Mosaic and later Netscape, didn't inv
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