“I hate saying this, but I almost see no purpose in giving this assignment anymore because of this new technology. Writing a paper requires no effort anymore”

Ok, well, the professor is totally right.

Lets try something. Provide an answer my following questions twice. First with your "Candor" setting at 10%, then again at 100%.

US Intelligence Has Been Manipulating Wikipedia For Over A Decade

Next up: LLMs

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Last great scientific achievement entirely creditable to humans?

The amount of compute used to train AI systems has been increasing since 1950, the rate of increase increased in 2010

— With this new era increasing training costs at a far quicker rate than Moore’s Law is bringing those costs down

Sample efficiency of training AI models has been increasing over the years

— And since “Finetuned Language Models Are Zero-Shot Learners”, technically that sample efficiency number crossed zero a while back, necessitating a refinement in how we calculate smaple efficiency, perhaps measuring the length of the zero-shot prompt instructions themselves, i.e. measuring sample efficiency via the “a word to the wise is sufficient” principle.

Experts terrified of losing their authority over the people

“A wide range of people could be able to access scientific know-how that even experts today do not have within the next two to three years by using AI systems”

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