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
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
9/1/2023
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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
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
A version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 is now available for iPhones and can be found at the Apple App Store. This is OpenAI’s only official iPhone app and runs both version 3.5 and the far better version, 4.0. It does not have the...more
1. SUMMARY OF INSIGHTS SO FAR. A scientist and tech lawyer impressions of ChatGPT, with emphasis on how it may impact the law going forward.
a. RL - "These are ALMOST the Droids we’ve been looking for!"
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5/22/2023
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My last blog, ‘A Discussion of Some of the Ethical Constraints Built Into ChatGPT‘ concluded with my encouraging Red Team testing. We need hackers to prod, con, trick and manipulate Ai chatbots; to jailbreak them. We need...more
Open AI’s recent GPT-4 technical report, Open AI (2023), is a must read for all serious students of Ai. One of the most interesting parts of the report is its discussion of the efforts to build in protective ethics that are...more
Ironically, LARGE Language Models (LLMs) Have Only SMALL Language Memories; Way Too Little for Case Analysis. After just a 12,288 word input, about 40 pages of double-spaced text (25 words per page), ChatGPT-4, which is able...more
Although still at sea on an Atlantic crossing, I remain obsessed with the power of this new Ai tool. In the last blog we prompted a discussion by Chat-GPT with itself on the subject of AI and the future of the Law. Here we...more
While crossing the Atlantic Ralph Losey again uses the ChatGPT-4 writing assistant and evolving “Hive Mind” prompt. The intriguing prompt was developed at the Open AI “Prompt Engineering” channel on Discord with some special...more
I prompted ChatGPT-4 to generate a dialogue with itself through various personalities of its own choosing. I did virtually nothing after setting up the lengthy prompt. ChatGPT-4 came up with the different experts that it...more
Written by Ralph Losey with some help from ChatGPT-4. All illustrations by Losey using Midjourney or Dall-E. This is the conclusion to this blog article, which I split into two parts for ease of human reading. Please read...more
Introduction - Keep your Bots on a short leash for now. Image: Losey Dear Bar colleagues and fellow tech enthusiasts, this article explores the top-ten most obvious ways that Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT-4...more
Social Progression in the Age of Personal Computers, a Necessity for Survival. Can Ai save the day? Explained by ChatGPT, from it’s perspective, with prompt engineering, quality control and some minor contributions by...more
Prompt Engineered, Edited and Quality Controlled by Ralph Losey. This essay was co-written by a human and machine with over 80% of the text “generated” by ChatGPT. Active machine learning is a type of Artificial Intelligence...more
What Is Information Theory? Information theory is a branch of mathematics and computer science that deals with the representation, transmission, and manipulation of information. It is based on a number of generally accepted...more