This will need a separate blog post But when you give something for free, then you will run out of that resource. So yes, companies have too little GPUs to give their services for free, but too many GPUs for their paid services.
Why would you go inside a chat box and try to force fit applications and show the applications in weird ways and then finally link out to the actual application instead of just putting a chat box inside the application which is the accepted way.
If I had a human assistant, I'd ask them to book my flight. The chat box is your window to your AI assistant. Maybe this new assistant hasn't earned your trust yet, but it makes sense that trust-aside, you'd ask your assistant to do whatever they could do for you.
Years ago (in the age of flip phones, think pre 2001) I worked at a bank.
When we launched our mobile banking platform, one of the PM's there swore up and down that we should be piloting banking by text message. He was fabulously wrong at the time and in the end got a lot of things right.
There are a lot of applications that could fit in a text box provided that your not doing the work rather that your delegating it.
Other than the obvious discussions around free speech(very valid points), do we have any real studies on the actual effects of social media? What if social media platforms didn't exist. Would the world have been a better place?
I don't know the answer, but atleast from my observations it feels as if almost every country in the world has moved to the right but by bit. We have moved away from globalization and are into protectionism. Is social media to be blamed for this? I think it has certainly played it's part for sure.
One advantage of social media I see is that it has allowed people to create D2C businesses.
Social media platforms are no more closed circles. They are platforms for advertisers and "click fishers". And people engage with content which revolt them.
As a consequence social platforms, and low quality newspapers, have converged to show the bad news from all over the world. There is no shortage of them. This affects people's morale, confidence. Have you noticed how people you talk to can be very concerned about seemingly minor events that occurred on the other side of the world, to which they cannot change anything, and which should not change anything in their life?
Turns out today I have cut access to Youtube, Google Play to my 12 years old daughter. Internet is limited to a whitelist of sites, with only Wikipedia for now. She had turned phone addict in an unmanageable way. Blame Youtube and Tiktok. Unfortunately she needs a smartphone for school, she would otherwise have a dumb phone.
Of course there is wonderful content on Youtube. But the "shorts" is a literal trap for kids. As for the adults (well, me) it is just painful to see the list of trending videos, such that I seldom go and never stay. This is a stinky place. Ask the dictator in me and I would say blocking Youtube makes more good than bad.
In the specific context of Nepal, because it is clearly the next step in consolidation of power and move to authoritarianism.
The government is corrupt and has taken a lot of incredibly unpopular and objectively anti-people moves in the last 2-3 years. Taming social media would allow them to do more of that with less of the backlash.
It is clear they aren't even remotely concerned about the actual bad effects of social media. They didn't ban TikTok, of all things.
Social media algorithms are tuned to maximize engagements and this is easily done by keeping the user happy. This creates echo chambers and ends up polarizing users. Not everyone gets polarized but a vast majority of users become victims of confirmation bias, which leads to an increasingly fragmented and divisive society. Am I wrong?
I had been experimenting with some prompts for socratic method of teaching. Finally found one which works fairly well for me which I have integrated into our product.
Q: How does photosynthesis work?
Chat GPT Study Mode:
### How Photosynthesis Works (in simple steps):
Photosynthesis is the process *plants use to make their own food* using sunlight. It mostly happens in *leaves*, especially in a part called the *chloroplast*, which contains a green pigment called *chlorophyll*.
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### Think of it like a recipe:
1. *Ingredients*:
* **Sunlight**
* **Water (H₂O)** — from the roots
* **Carbon dioxide (CO₂)** — from the air
2. *Cooking place*: Leaf cells, in their chloroplasts
3. *Magic trick*: Chlorophyll traps sunlight energy
4. *What’s made*:
* **Glucose (C₆H₁₂O₆)** — a sugar the plant uses for energy
* **Oxygen (O₂)** — released into the air
agent: Great question! Let's start by understanding the problem. What do you think is the main purpose of photosynthesis in plants?
me: dont know
agent: That's okay! Let’s start by breaking down the concept of photosynthesis. First, can you tell me what kind of organisms primarily use photosynthesis?
me: plants
agent: Exactly, plants primarily use photosynthesis. Now, let's think about the basic ingredients or components needed for photosynthesis to occur. Can you name any of these components?
me: no
agent: No problem! Let’s explore it together. Photosynthesis primarily requires three main components. One of them is light. Can you think of where plants might get light from?
me: sun
agent: That's right! Plants get light from the sun. Sunlight is crucial for photosynthesis. Now, besides sunlight, plants also need something from the air. Do you know what that might be?
We all know the advantages of smartphones. What we dont know yet are the harmful effects of the smartphones on young minds. I just hope we are not stunting the mental growth of our kids just because we dont know the harmful effects. Like how smoking was allowed everywhere initially and now we ban it everywhere.
How can we help. Can crowd sourcing help? Is there any list of tasks that we want a crowd to do? The reason I am asking is because we have done a couple of crowdsourcing efforts and collected story data in Telugu(Chandamama Kathalu) and ASR speech data using college going students. Since we have access to the students, we can mobilize them and get this going. We will also be doing an internship program for 100,000 students in Telangana as part of Viswam[1] in April. Can include some work as part of this effort.
I am 45 now. Sad that most probably this is going to be the reality of the future.Its gonna be some robot with an AI, talking like ChatGPT, which means nothing it says that will take care of me in my old age.
Can you spot conceptually similar stories by their shape?
For instance what is the shape of the ugly duckling compared to Rudolf the red nosed reindeer. They are essentially the same story, so presumably on some dimension you should be able to spot them in a group of unrelated stories.
Will check for these particular stories. But yes, when we tried this on some stories with a similar arc we saw that their path is similar in the semantic space.
