The Memo - 12/Apr/2022
Hi friend,
Thanks again for your support.
This is the third email to contributors, with some updates on AI happenings as of Apr/2022.
Leta's birthday invitation
As a supporter, you are invited to Leta's birthday party. You have first dibs on giving Leta a birthday present... in the form of a question or two for the 8/Apr/2022 episode. Questions must be received in the next 72 hours, by 4/Apr/2022. Please reply to this email directly with your question (no sensitive topics, please).
What's in my AI? report
This started life as a viz, and I then expanded it to become a 26-page paper covering some pretty intricate analyses of datasets. This was well received by researchers at Allen AI and elsewhere.
https://lifearchitect.ai/whats-in-my-ai/
GPT-3 2022 is a big change
While not quite GPT-4, the newest GPT-3 model released March 2022 (text-davinci-002) can do a lot of new stuff. It is now 4,000 characters (instead of 2,048), and its dataset ends more recently - June 2021 (instead of Dec/2019). So it now knows about COVID and the Ever Given in the Suez.
https://beta.openai.com/docs/engines/gpt-3
Interview with Jie Tang from Wudao 2.0