Saturday, April 01, 2023

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GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine Reason is only as good as the information we give it ......... there are at least two important components to thinking: reasoning and knowledge. Knowledge without reasoning is inert—you can’t do anything with it. But reasoning without knowledge can turn into compelling, confident fabrication. .......... Even though our AI models were trained by reading the whole internet, that training mostly enhances their reasoning abilities not how much they know. And so, the performance of today’s AI models is constrained by their lack of knowledge. .......... GPT models are actually reasoning engines not knowledge databases. .......... if you want to make an investment that indexes the success of companies building in AI as a whole, one smart move would be to invest in a vector database provider, or a basket of them. (Alternatives might be to invest in OpenAI, or a basket of large cap software companies like Microsoft and Google that build AI, or chipmakers like NVIDIA that build the GPUs that AIs run on.) ......... AI’s advancement is a raindance that calls forth capital from Patagonia vest wearing angels. ....... People have been saying that data is the new oil for a long time. ........ We tend to underappreciate the significance of the input—what information we feed it to produce those results. Its answers are largely dependent on the information we make available to it for analysis. It’s only as powerful as its starting point. .



How to avoid war over Taiwan A superpower conflict would shake the world ......... Europe is witnessing its bloodiest cross-border war since 1945, but Asia risks something even worse: conflict between America and China over Taiwan. Tensions are high, as American forces pivot to a new doctrine known as “distributed lethality” designed to blunt Chinese missile attacks. Last week dozens of Chinese jets breached Taiwan’s “air defence identification zone”. This week China’s foreign minister condemned what he called America’s strategy of “all-round containment and suppression, a zero-sum game of life and death”. ........... Is it willing to risk a direct war with another nuclear power to defend Taiwan, something it has not been prepared to do for Ukraine? And by competing with China militarily in Asia, could it provoke the very war it is trying to prevent? ........ China could use “grey-zone” tactics that are coercive, but not quite acts of war, to blockade the self-governing island and sap its economy and morale. Or it could launch pre-emptive missile strikes on American bases in Guam and Japan, clearing the way for an amphibious assault. Since Taiwan could resist an attack on its own only for days or weeks, any conflict could escalate quickly into a superpower confrontation. .......... a war over Taiwan could involve a new generation of arms, such as hypersonic missiles and anti-satellite weapons, causing untold destruction and provoking unpredictable retaliation ........... Taiwan is the world’s essential supplier of advanced semiconductors. America, China and Japan, the three largest economies, and among the most interconnected, would deploy sanctions, crippling global trade. America would urge Europe and its other friends to impose an embargo on China. .......... War is no longer a remote possibility .......

President Xi Jinping has told the People’s Liberation Army to be ready for an invasion by 2027, says the CIA.

.......... The military balance no longer so clearly favours America as it did in the 1990s. And public opinion has shifted in Taiwan, not least because of how China has snuffed out freedoms in Hong Kong. Only 7% of Taiwanese favour reunification. .......... Both sides are shoring up their positions and trying to signal their resolve, with destabilising consequences. ......... the mysterious severing of undersea internet cables to remote Taiwanese islands. .......... Top American and Chinese defence officials have not spoken since November. During the recent spy-balloon incident, a “hotline” failed when China did not pick up. ......... The island is admirably liberal and democratic, and proof that such values are not alien to Chinese culture. .......... A botched invasion, however, would cost Mr Xi and the Communist Party dearly. ........ The goal should not be to solve the Taiwan question, but to defer it. .......... The first 15 years of the American-Soviet cold war featured a terrifying mixture of brinkmanship and near-catastrophic mistakes, until the Cuban missile crisis prompted a revival of diplomacy...... the two rival systems must find a way to live together less dangerously.



Google Bard is about to get supercharged the current metaphorical Lebron James of large language models: GPT-4........ Training a large language model on outputs from someone else's large language model is a little like photocopying a map and calling yourself a cartographer — not a good look.



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ChatGPT, Ganesha And Mahabharata

How did Ganesha write the Mahabharata?

According to Hindu mythology, Ganesha did not write the Mahabharata, but he played a crucial role in its composition.

It is said that the sage Vyasa wanted to write the Mahabharata, but he faced a significant challenge: the epic was so vast and complex that he could not remember it all. Therefore, he needed someone who could write down the verses as he dictated them.

That's when Lord Brahma suggested that Vyasa seek the help of Lord Ganesha. When Vyasa approached Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity agreed to assist him on the condition that Vyasa would recite the verses continuously without pause. Vyasa agreed, but he also set a condition of his own: Ganesha had to understand the meaning of each verse before writing it down.

The writing process then began, with Vyasa reciting the verses and Ganesha writing them down. Whenever Vyasa needed a break to compose a new verse, Ganesha would ask for clarification on the previous verse's meaning. This way, the entire epic was composed with Ganesha as the scribe and Vyasa as the author.

This story is considered a metaphor for the idea that writing or creating anything significant requires collaboration and mutual understanding between different talents and perspectives.



In the first part of the epic poem Mahabharata, it is written that the sage Vyasa (Vyฤsa) asked Ganesha to transcribe the poem as he dictated it to him. Ganesha agreed, but only on the condition that Vyasa recite the poem uninterrupted, without pausing.



Even though Vyasa is said to be the author of the epic, the physical writing of this great work of literature is attributed to Ganesha. The story goes that Vyasa had the entire story planned out in his head but knew what a daunting task it could be to write it down. And so he prayed to Brahma to help him out. On Brahma’s suggestion Vyasa then sought out Ganesha, the god of wisdom and knowledge, to write out the epic........... Ganesha agreed but said that he had but one condition: that Vyasa shouldn’t dictate without interruption. Should Vyasa stop, Ganesha proposed, he’d drop the task right there and leave. Vyasa agreed but put his own counter-condition: that Ganesha should first understand what was being dictated to him before writing it out......... The elephant-headed god agreed and thus began the greatest literary collaboration. Vyasa narrated the story of the Mahabharata and Ganesha kept writing as furiously as Vyasa kept dictating. In fact at one point, the reed he was using to write broke and Ganesha was left without a writing instrument. To continue without interruption, Ganesha is believed to have broken one of his tusks, dipped it in ink and simply continued as if nothing had happened. This is the reason why Ganesha is depicted with a broken tusk today. .......... There were occasions when Ganesha had to pause for brief moments to understand the complex compositions of Vyasa before writing them down. This was the only time that Vyasa had a moment to breathe. ........ And so, after three long years of constant dictation, Vyasa completed the epic with Ganesha having written down every single word and verse after having understood its entire meaning.

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