There is a misleading thought doing the rounds: that ‘oh, how naïve, size doesn’t really matter, GPT’s not getting smarter in essence’. But, yikes does it matter! And it matters qualitatively. Many anti-ChatGPT / anti-neural networks academics are saying that ‘all’ OpenAI does is scale LLMs (large language models) and…

ChatGPT, the famous new text AI from OpenAI, despite some limitations and naysayers, is already a hugely enabling technology. But it’s not immediately obvious where this will take us. As a GPT developer, here I make some ballpark predictions where this is heading given what we know so far. More than ChatGPT Whatever…

Our closest nebula is the Helix Nebula and it’s quite far away: 700 light years, it’s a so-called ‘planetary’ nebula and only about 3 light years wide (see below). But most other types of nebula are scores and 100s of light years in diameter and one of the closer ones…

Sounds bizarre, but it’s justifiable. Only $2T of that will come from the car business. Based on that, Tesla, currently with a market cap of around $400B, will at least get back to $1T this year IMO. But then there’s a lot more: FSD robo-taxis, energy, batteries and the android. …

Is it really true that rule-based ‘symbolic AI’, is brain like? Or are neural nets like ChatGPT indeed more like the brain? And a better way to go for language understanding and AGI (artificial general intelligence)? I think the symbolic AI claims are demonstrably wrong in fact. But it’s what…

This is puzzling up to a point. Of course there was the fascinating DC-X (see below) as some of you may be aware. But where was the aspiration and logical thinking by any other company? It was totally absent IMO. Even in my mind I thought we’d lose too much…

It’s actually true that EVs contribute a significantly higher carbon footprint during manufacture. But very quickly that story changes as miles are racked up. And, crucially, the improved longevity of the latest generation of solar panel should bring down the effective carbon footprint per mile driven from 60 g/mile to…

Decent comedy? From GPT? At least on observational Seinfeld-like stuff. Here’s some examples. Thinking about my fav-all-time cartoon — Gary Larson’s dog scientists — I asked GPT-3 for some stand-up comedy along a similar line: dog doctors. Write some Seinfeld-like observational stand-up about dog doctors. GPT If dogs were doctors…

As a space nut and PhD (bio)physicist / engineer / altruist / environmentalist, believe me, since 2004, Elon Musk is literally the only person I have ever heard — to this day — make complete sense on most of space-flight, sustainability, climate change, EVs, AI or futurism. Or society in…