Extensive Turing tests by a team of respected scientists have shown that “chatbots’ behaviors tend to be more cooperative and altruistic than the median human, including being more trusting, generous, and reciprocating.”...more
In a world increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence, the legal profession stands at a crossroads. Lawyers must adopt the new AI tools and quickly learn how to use them effectively and safely. That means learning the...more
Conclusion to the Plato and Young Icarus Series: Why It’s a Bad Idea to Slow Down Development of AI. This is the conclusion to the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between those...more
Turing AwardWinner, Chief AI Scientist of Facebook and Hero of France - This is Part Four of the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between those who would slow down AI and those...more
This is Part Three of the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between the elders would slow down AI and the young who would speed it up. Part Two shared the story of the visionary...more
This is Part Two of the Plato and Young Icarus series. Part One set out the debate in neoclassical terms between those who would slow down AI and those who would speed it up. This is an age-old struggle between fear and hope,...more
Advanced intelligence from AI should be embraced, not feared. We should speed up AI development, not slow it down. We should move fast and fix things while we still can. Fly Icarus, fly! Your Dad was wrong....more
Blake Richards is a rare academic with expertise in both computer science and neurology. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital at McGill University and...more
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, few voices carry as much weight as Shane Legg, Founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind. AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, is a level of machine...more
Join us for a distinctive visual odyssey with Ralph Losey, as we unveil the power of generative AI through his compelling collection of 47 short videos crafted over fifteen years. This webinar will shine a spotlight on the...more
PYTHIA, the women who served as the Prophetess of Delphi for a thousand years, were the most powerful women of the ancient world. They succeeded for so long due to their sage advice and very strong organization of...more
This is the third and concluding article of the Circuits in Session series. The quality of GPT4’s legal analysis is evaluated and both positive and negative test results are reported. It did process legal frameworks very well...more
This is an addendum to the prior article, Circuits in Session: How AI Challenges Traditional Appellate Dynamics. That article reported on my experiment with use of ChatGPT as an appellate court judge. For the experiment I...more
This article describes an experiment using OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 to do appellate work, usually considered the most intellectually challenging area of the law. My hypothesis was that AI was already capable of acting as an...more
I unearthed important new case law this week that has never been seen before or discussed. This article gives an exclusive report of three appellate court opinions that discuss artificial intelligence and hallucinations. This...more
DefCon’s AI Village - Sven Cattell, shown above, is the founder of a key event at DefCon 31, the AI Village. The Village attracted thousands of people eager to take part in its Hack The Future challenge. At the Village I...more
9/12/2023
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Hackers responded to the White House call by the thousands, including reporter-AI-hacker Ralph Losey, to try to break existing software in open contests. Ralph joined in the AI hack attack, but there were many other...more
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From Boris to Bots: Our First Dive into the DefCon Universe. This begins a series of blogs chronicling the infamous DefCon event in Las Vegas. I attended DefCon 31, on August 10-15, 2023, as independent Press, accompanied by...more
OpenAI’s head scientist, Ilya Sutskever, revealed in an interview by a fellow scientist near his level, Sven Strohband, how the emergent intelligence of his neural-net AI was the surprising result of scaling, a drastic...more
In a landmark move towards the regulation of generative AI technologies, the White House brokered eight “commitments” with industry giants Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The discussions,...more
8/1/2023
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This article continues the Ai creativity series and examines current thinking among lawyers about their work and job security. Most believe their work is too creative to be replaced by machines....more
This article analyzes the creative imagination capacities of ChatGPT and two software settings to control it: Temperature and Nucleus Sampling (aka Top-P). It is easy to change these parameters, as will be shown by multiple...more
Sam Altman had some fascinating things to say recently about technology revolutions and what comes after AI. Apparently that is his favorite unasked question. After completing a grueling world tour of meetings and interviews,...more
The report by well-known consulting firm McKinsey, The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier (June 2023), provides reliable information and analysis on the jobs potential of ChatGPT and other...more
Are Both Human and AI Generated Thoughts and Writings Mere Predictable Repetitions of Prior Language? Introduction My experiences with Large Language Model AI prompt me to wonder about language, ideas and intelligence. These...more