I don't quite fit into any of the three categories you mention, but I'm adjacent. I'm a programmer who's looked into using GPT-3 for various types of automation, usually finding it to be not reliable enough, and my partner is a digital artist who has looked into using DALL-E to help her in her work and also mostly found it unhelpful.
If that sounds useful to you, I'd be happy to share my/our experiences.
As a programmer, I tend to think of AI as a boogeyman. Software has gotten more complex and capable over the years. Is this really that different? When CGI became a thing, artists didn't go away. There was a new tool and medium for art. Musicians didn't stop making music because of electronic samples. Lots of hype over "the cloud" which was just "someone else's computer" as it always had been. Venture capital flows to startups with an "algorithm" to do something, when their predecessor just had a software application.
AI/ML just seems like the latest iteration in pattern matching. The ability to comb through large data sets and find non-obvious correlations is definitely useful. There might be a material science or biological interaction breakthrough that is indeed world changing. I don't know that text/visual generative programs are going to be that.
I also don't know that I fit neatly into the categories. I'm in academia and I'm using LLMs for research, testing their limits and comparing them to human capabilities (e.g., Theory of Mind: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01515), and in some cases looking at more applied questions like how they will/should shape pedagogy. But I signed up for a Thursday slot just in case!
I fit the categories you described but I don’t get this newsletter via email so I can’t “reply to the email”. :) But I think you can see my email as I comment here, so if you’d like to email me, we can set something up.
It's pretty funny your username on Twitter was "bye bye elon" and you were telling ppl you were going to Mastodon. LMAO that fizzled. Why not do a blog entry examining why you were such a moron about that? Too prideful?
I don't quite fit into any of the three categories you mention, but I'm adjacent. I'm a programmer who's looked into using GPT-3 for various types of automation, usually finding it to be not reliable enough, and my partner is a digital artist who has looked into using DALL-E to help her in her work and also mostly found it unhelpful.
If that sounds useful to you, I'd be happy to share my/our experiences.
As a programmer, I tend to think of AI as a boogeyman. Software has gotten more complex and capable over the years. Is this really that different? When CGI became a thing, artists didn't go away. There was a new tool and medium for art. Musicians didn't stop making music because of electronic samples. Lots of hype over "the cloud" which was just "someone else's computer" as it always had been. Venture capital flows to startups with an "algorithm" to do something, when their predecessor just had a software application.
AI/ML just seems like the latest iteration in pattern matching. The ability to comb through large data sets and find non-obvious correlations is definitely useful. There might be a material science or biological interaction breakthrough that is indeed world changing. I don't know that text/visual generative programs are going to be that.
I also don't know that I fit neatly into the categories. I'm in academia and I'm using LLMs for research, testing their limits and comparing them to human capabilities (e.g., Theory of Mind: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01515), and in some cases looking at more applied questions like how they will/should shape pedagogy. But I signed up for a Thursday slot just in case!
I fit the categories you described but I don’t get this newsletter via email so I can’t “reply to the email”. :) But I think you can see my email as I comment here, so if you’d like to email me, we can set something up.
It's pretty funny your username on Twitter was "bye bye elon" and you were telling ppl you were going to Mastodon. LMAO that fizzled. Why not do a blog entry examining why you were such a moron about that? Too prideful?