“until now, artificial intelligence could read and write, but could not understand the content. The new programs like ChatGPT will make many office jobs more efficient by helping to write invoices or letters. This will change our world” – says Bill Gates.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in a recent interview revealed that OpenAI Chatbot ChatGPT which is currently the rave of the moment will change the world.
Gates, while speaking to a German business daily, stated that a chatbot that gives strikingly human-like responses to user queries is as significant as the invention of the internet.
Yes, my engineering PhD was on neuromorphic computational system where we work to model the event-driven asynchronous parallelism of the central nervous system, bringing the plasticity which is evident in biological systems into silicon, to enable a new age, not based on zeroes and ones, but on spiking-neural computing. I got a US patent on that effort and the US Government licensed the effort (with many goodies for the village boy). But what we are toiling to achieve on silicon cannot be compared to what the natural language computing paradigm we’re witnessing by the likes of ChatGPT, Bard, etc has demonstrated in production.
Indeed, as we work to recreate the synaptic-neural communication in circuits, these guys invented a way for machines to become like humans, on natural language computing.
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People, that is a huge deal. But a bigger deal will come when these ChatGPTs become powered by neuromorphic computers, drastically reducing the energy requirements to juice them up. Amazing things are coming up in this world. My company, an Intel programmable microprocessor partner, remains at the epicenter of that future.
Our world will change! #invent
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Comment 1: In May of 2002, W.D. Smart and L.P. Kaelbling, researchers at Washington University and M.I.T., respectively, published a paper at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
entitled “Effective Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Robots” in which they laid out the framework for programming robots with the ability to prioritize outcomes of actions.
In other words, the Smart and Kaelbling framework made it possible for automated systems, including autonomous robots, to want some things to happen in preference to others. This reward system was seen as the basis for artificial intelligence learning in a
chaotic environment.
This capability is what separates automated machines from welfare-aligned sentient beings. This is a better test of artificial intelligence than the “fool an observer into thinking you’re a human while carrying on a conversation” test. It’s relatively easy to predict what might happen next. Being able to care what happens next is another matter!
Comment 2: This is indeed huge going by the impact that programs like chatGPT are offering as well as many AI driven innovation.
On one hand, the future of work and expertise will change as I can simply chatGPT anything and assume the role of a subject matter expert within minutes simply by using the right prompts.
Critics of AI will say “it will replace people”, ” it’s putting people’s job at risk” etc.
Yes. That’s true.
The same way that Computer replaced typewriters but went on to create new job opportunities is what I see AI will do.
In the immediate, one way of re-inventing oneself for the future of work is to understand how to utilize these AI tools for your advantage.
You can start on this journey by Googling or ChatGPTing PROMPT ENGINEERING
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With the cost of fabrication reducing (particularly on trailing nodes), it would be great to see Nigeria take up neuromorphic computing as a moonshot project.