{"id":3243,"date":"2023-04-17T09:52:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:39:20","slug":"seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2023\/04\/17\/seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, there&#8217;s been quite some interest in LLM, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/chatgpt\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/chatgpt', 'ChatGPT']);\" >ChatGPT<\/a><\/p>&nbsp;<\/p><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/computer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3244 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/computer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/computer.png 750w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/computer-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] flex flex-col items-start gap-4 whitespace-pre-wrap\"><strong>Write two paragraphs in the style of Tim Ferriss in the style of The Four-hour Workweek explaining on how to generate passive income with ChatGPT<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] flex flex-col items-start gap-4 whitespace-pre-wrap\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<blockquote><p>Are you looking for a way to generate passive income with ChatGPT? Then look no further than affiliate marketing. By promoting ChatGPT&#8217;s products or services to your audience and earning a commission on any sales you refer, you can create a reliable and scalable source of passive income. Whether you have a blog, a podcast, or a social media following, affiliate marketing with ChatGPT is a low-risk, high-reward way to monetize your online presence.<\/p>But that&#8217;s not all. Another way to generate passive income with ChatGPT is by creating and selling digital products, such as e-books or online courses, related to the topics covered by ChatGPT. By leveraging your expertise and knowledge, you can create a valuable resource for your audience while also generating passive income. And with platforms like Udemy and Teachable, it&#8217;s never been easier to create and sell digital products online. So why not take advantage of ChatGPT&#8217;s wealth of knowledge and expertise and start generating passive income today?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Plagiarism<\/h2><p>One of the big concern <em>du jour<\/em> is plagiarism. Here&#8217;s an interesting piece by Noam Chomsky in the<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/08\/opinion\/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/08\/opinion\/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html', 'Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT']);\" >Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT<\/a> \u2013\u00a0New York Times.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And a more elaborate conversation:<\/p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chomsky on ChatGPT, Education, Russia and the unvaccinated\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IgxzcOugvEI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Emergence<\/h3><p>However, it seems there is a little more at stake. A former classmate of mine who works at Microsoft talked about sparks of Artificial General Intelligence in a podcast \u2013 there are emergent properties in AI, meaning that it does not only remix text, but also seem to have an ability to create things merely from structure (short of being able to think.)<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/podcast\/ai-frontiers-the-physics-of-ai-with-sebastien-bubeck\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/podcast\/ai-frontiers-the-physics-of-ai-with-sebastien-bubeck\/', 'AI Frontiers: The Physics of AI with S\u00e9bastien Bubeck']);\" >AI Frontiers: The Physics of AI with S\u00e9bastien Bubeck<\/a> \u2013 AI Frontiers podcast, Microsoft Research<\/p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3613\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bubeck_sparks_agi_unicorn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3613\" class=\"wp-image-3613 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bubeck_sparks_agi_unicorn-1024x604.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bubeck_sparks_agi_unicorn-1024x604.png 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bubeck_sparks_agi_unicorn-300x177.png 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bubeck_sparks_agi_unicorn-768x453.png 768w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bubeck_sparks_agi_unicorn.png 1988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ChatGPT 4.0 can generate code to make a unicorn, even though it has no notion of what a unicorn is, and that code is procedural. (excerpt from Bubeck&#8217;s lecture atBerkeley on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c', 'sparks of AGI']);\" >sparks of AGI<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Physics of AI<\/h3><p>The same friend is actually exploring what he dubs the Physics of AI: trying not to understand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA', 'why']);\" >why<\/a> AI works, but under what circumstances you can make it work.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3614\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bubeck_physics_ai_threshold_phenomenon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3614\" class=\"wp-image-3614 \" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bubeck_physics_ai_threshold_phenomenon-1024x695.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bubeck_physics_ai_threshold_phenomenon-1024x695.png 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bubeck_physics_ai_threshold_phenomenon-300x204.png 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bubeck_physics_ai_threshold_phenomenon-768x521.png 768w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bubeck_physics_ai_threshold_phenomenon.png 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excerpt from Bubeck&#8217;s lecture on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XLNmgviQHPA\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XLNmgviQHPA', 'Physics of AI']);\" >Physics of AI<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>The key insights (nevermind the jab at physicists!) is that there are weird phase transitions at work: depending on how you pick your learning parameters, you can get wildly different results \u2013 turning the teaching of the machines into an art itself.<\/p>(<em>update March 2024:<\/em> check out this fascinating analysis from Sohl Dickstein on how <a href=\"https:\/\/sohl-dickstein.github.io\/2024\/02\/12\/fractal.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/sohl-dickstein.github.io\/2024\/02\/12\/fractal.html', 'Neural network training makes beautiful fractals']);\" >Neural network training makes beautiful fractals<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3>Liability<\/h3><p>Computers are great, but \u2013<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3616\" style=\"width: 407px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/computer_not_accountable.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3616\" class=\"wp-image-3616\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/computer_not_accountable.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IBM slide from 1979 (from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MIT_CSAIL\/status\/1484933879710371846\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/x.com\/MIT_CSAIL\/status\/1484933879710371846', 'MIT CSAIL']);\" >MIT CSAIL<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div><p>In the end, humans will be only be there for liability. In\u00a0 a way this is how American society has evolved.<\/p>\n<h3>ChatGPT as anonymous expert<\/h3><p>Personally, I think that the ability to get answers to question without the fear judgement \u2013 <strong>asking dumb or intimate questions<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2013 will have an incredible impact, perhaps more than the productivity gains that are touted by experts (sure \u2013 you can generate reports with AI, then summarize these reports with AI: perhaps the thought should have been boiled down i. the first place.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTo ask the right question is harder than to answer it.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013Georg Cantor<\/p><\/blockquote><p>There is still some room for human thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, there&#8217;s been quite some interest in LLM, thanks to ChatGPT&nbsp; Write two paragraphs in the style of Tim Ferriss in the style of The Four-hour Workweek explaining on how to generate passive income with ChatGPT Are you looking for a way to generate passive income with ChatGPT? 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