Patreon Preview 221. ChatGPT: From Fetish Object to AI Oracle

Published: Jan. 3, 2023, 4:29 a.m.

b'We breakdown ChatGPT, the conversational large language model created by OpenAI. How this system works. How it has been fetishized by consumers and reporters, critics and advocates. Why most of the hand wringing and claim making about the impacts of this technology has been wrongheaded. And why our analysis of the implications for such a system being integrated into everyday life\\u2014regardless of how well it does or does not work\\u2014must push past the bounds of bias and misinformation. We are talking here about the AI of Delphi. The perception of meaning via the production of reality. Yet another in a long line of interpretive systems for simultaneously constructing and understanding the world.\\n\\nStuff we reference: \\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 How come GPT can seem so brilliant one minute and so breathtakingly dumb the next? https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/how-come-gpt-can-seem-so-brilliant\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 What to Expect When You\\u2019re Expecting\\u2026 GPT-4 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Every answer https://robhorning.substack.com/p/every-answer \\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 The great Transformer: Examining the role of large language models in the political economy of AI https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517211047734 \\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 ChatGPT, Galactica, and the Progress Trap https://www.wired.com/story/large-language-models-critique/\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Exclusive: ChatGPT owner OpenAI projects $1 billion in revenue by 2024 https://www.reuters.com/business/chatgpt-owner-openai-projects-1-billion-revenue-by-2024-sources-2022-12-15/\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Did a Fourth Grader Write This? Or the New Chatbot? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/26/upshot/chatgpt-child-essays.html?referringSource=articleShare\\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nGrab TMK gear: https://www.bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)'