218F Vers L'Intelligence Artificielle (en francais)

218 Misc: Towards Artificial Intelligence (218.html)

Keywords

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Introduction

Ms Neil Watson

	Where should I start?
	What should my first steps be?
	What goals should I set for myself?
	How much time do I need to devote to this study?
	Where will I see the most immediate benefits?
	What are some pitfalls to avoid?
	From whom or where can I get advice about this journey?
	Should I consider AI a philosophy, a skill set, an adventure,
	     an academic endeavour, a process, a way of thinking,
	     a tool-box, a release, an abyss, a new language,
	     a new sport, a new paint set to color the world,
	     a group effort, a private study, a way of life,
	     a religion, a new beginning, a way to dig deeper into
	     my current interests?
	Is AI scary?
	Is AI applicable to everything I do?
	What equipment helps me use AI?
	What tools are available?
	Should I start now or wait a year?
	Do I need special new AI friends or will the whole world be moving in this same AI direction?
	Are there knaves ready to lead me astray in AI?
	
	
	

	Who should I discuss AI with?
	  my family
	  my lawyer
	  my doctor
	  my friends
	  my best friend
	  my political associates
	  my psychiatrist
	  everyone, everywhere
	  no-one
	  facebook groups
	

AI WebSites to Explore

	Which AI websites should I try first?
	
	ChatGPT
	CoPilot (Microsoft)
	TED  This is my first choice. See Video Source 02
	
	
	Max Sills (Video Source 02)
	

Inflection CEO Moosafah Suleyman

	Companies
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	Inflection
	Conjecture  - Connor Leahy CEO
	StabilityAI - Emad Mostaque CEO (has a kid who "had" autism.)
	OpenAI      - CEO Sam Altman
		    - GPT-2 Connor Leahy reverse engineered in 2010?
		    - GPT-3 (June 2020) - Large Language Model (LLM)
	            - ChatGPT  (2024)   - polished version of GPT-3
		    - GDPR (General Data Protection Regulator)
		    - Gemini (with verbal interactions - by Google)
		    - GPT-4 (future)
		    - GPT-5s (2023 or 2024?)
		    - Q* 2.5 (2024) OpenIA Alignment (Sebastian Moss) 
			Shadow Phoenix (Russia attack)
		    - Q* [say Q-STaR] Mira Murati got Sam Altman oustered (but he was rehired)
	DeepMinds   - Sir Demis Hassabis
	Google	    - DeepMind (Mustafa Suleyman)
	Bard	    - Timothy Ring 
	
	Source 18 is a prediction of the AI Future.
	
	What if an AI system could produce its own "data sets"
	
	
	Mike Wooldridge (Video Source 06)
	Artificial Intelligence is different from Human Intelligence.
	
	

	Very Important Paper:
	"Attention is all you need" by Ashish Vaswani
	Transformer Architecture
	
	Rich Sutton   - Canadian AI Expert at University of Alberta (invented Reinforcement Learning)
	
	Big AI
	
	Emergent Capabilities  from GPT-3
	
	multimodal: text, images, sounds
	
	"Augmented Large Language Models"
	
	"Machine Conciousness"  
	Blake Lemoine says "Our machines are sentient!"
	
	The hard problem (David Chalmers)
	
	Patrick Nagel (1970) "Some is conscious if it it like something"
	Nagel: AI and art

	Safe GuardRails are needed.
	

	From Video Source 04
	--------------------
	1 Learn AI Limitations
	   ethical, bias
	2 Curiosity & Continuous Learning
	   keep-UpToDate Tools
	3 Natural Language Processing
	   learn the principles
	4 AI Project Management
	5 Business Strategy & Implementation
	   identify opportunities
	6 Creative AI Thinking
	   use our imagination
	7 Data StoryTelling/Visualization
	8 Personal Branding
	    create a picture of one's self
	9 Prompt Engineering
	    ask pertinent questions
	

Take-Aways

	You need to "fact-check" everything that ChatGPT produces.
	Guard-Rails are being implemented.
	
	Does this herald "General AI"?
	
	Is this technology the key to "General Artificial Intelligence?"
	
	or 
	
	"Artificial General Intelligence"
	
	
	Video Source 08 History of AI over the years
	
	
	Must-reads by Greene: 1. Fabric of the cosmos, 2. Hidden reality, 3. Until the end of time
	
	Post Labor Economics
	
	Universal Basic Income (UBI)
	
	StabilityAI  CEO: Emad Mostaque (has a kid who "had" autism.)
	
	2017 Big Data 
	

Definition of Terms/Acronyms

	-----------------------------------
	The "AGI Deadline" (Artificial General Intelligence)
	ASI (Artificial Super Intellignece)
	"AI or Super-Intelligent Alignment"
	   (i.e aligned with human values)
	"Generative Pre-trained Transformer"   (GPT)
	QUALIA
	Deep-Q
	Project TUNDRA
	Yann LeCun
	Auto-Regressive
	Noam Brown
	Game-Playing Systems
	  AlphaGo by Habbassis
	  AlphaZero
	  "System 2" thinking
	  Libratus
	  Cicero (Diplomacy)
	Andre Carpathay?
	  re using Game Theory in AI
	
	

	36 ChatGPT Tips (Video 14) (2024)  by Drake Suratch
	
	 1 Prompt - follow-up questions
		analyzing, understand and expand
	 2 Assign a role
	 3 use sloppy 
	 4 set your context within the prompt
	 5 rename your chat logs within ChatGPT
	 6 utilize prompt sequences
	   [Goal], [Context], [Action]
	 7 Archive Chat for later use
	 8 Use Custom Instructions (for 3N+ customers)
	 9 Speak with ChatGPT
	10 Utilize Output Formating
	11 Identify Objects using GPT-4 (w vision :images)
	12 Use ChatGPT for research assistance (up to 2023 D April)
	13 Use it for knowledge retention
	      explain it like I were 5
	      give me an analogy to better understand its function
	14 Use ChatGPT in order to plan
	15 Utilize the "plug-in" store (130 pages of stores
	       eg Wolfram
	16 Generate Check-lists
	17 Share chats within ChatGPT
	18 Create a GPT 
	    GPT is like a partner, employee or staff
	19 Use ChatGPT to brainstorm
	20 Use it to enhance your stories or writings
	21 Understand its limitations
	     always double-check the results (biases errors)
	22 Generate images using ChatGPT
	      create a picture of ....
	23 Summarize long text within long text
	      eg summarize a book
	24 Use analogies to understand complex topics
	25 Use it for language translation
	26 Use it to analyze documents (use GPT+)
	27 Create Mind Maps
	28 Use web browsing for data input
	     ask it to create video ideas and scripts
	29 Create Descriptions or Slogans
	30 Use it for interior styling (for rooms)
	31 Use for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
	     https://aifoundations.io
	32 Change your theme within ChatGPT
	33 Use ChatGPT for problem solving
	34 Use 3rd party applications 
	    (change UI user intefface)
	35 Purchase his ChatGPT Mastery Course
	     (Cost:  $  ?) 
	    "Engineer Your Life"
	    The group is super-early
	36 Subscribe to "AI Foundations"
	    Become a Pro
	
	Rated (9) by the author
	Video Source 15 has not yet been viewed nor rated.
	
	
	

What is Q*

	1 Reasoning, Logic eg Math Proofs
	2 
	might create its own data sets
	

Questions for Copilot

Question A: What is the Impact (of AI) on University Graduates in 2025?

Question 2: for Copilot

The author asked another question of Copilot:

Should I consider AI a philosophy, a skill set, an adventure,
	     an academic endeavour, a process, a way of thinking,
	     a tool-box, a release, an abyss, a new language,
	     a new sport, a new paint set to color the world,
	     a group effort, a private study, a way of life,
	     a religion, a new beginning, a way to dig deeper into
	     my current interests?


Copilot responded:

AI, like a multifaceted gem, reflects myriad facets. Let's explore its shimmering dimensions:

Philosophy: AI invites contemplation. It poses questions about consciousness, ethics, and the boundaries of intelligence. Dive into the 
philosophical depths where AI meets metaphysics.

Skill Set: Sharpen your digital chisel. Learn algorithms, programming languages, and data manipulation. Craft AI models like an artisan shaping clay.

Adventure: Embark on a quest through neural networks and algorithmic jungles. Uncharted territories await - discover, iterate, and innovate.

Academic Endeavor: Enroll in the halls of AI academia. Decode research papers, attend lectures, and unravel the mysteries of AI's inner workings.

Process: AI dances to an algorithmic rhythm. It's the choreography of data preprocessing, model training, and validation. A symphony of 0s and 1s.

Way of Thinking: AI rewires cognition. It's not just code; it's a mindset. Think probabilistically, embrace uncertainty, and let neural pathways spark.

Toolbox: AI, your digital Swiss Army knife. Extract insights, automate tasks, and predict outcomes. Each algorithm - a tool for a specific job.

Release: Unshackle creativity. AI generates art, music, and poetry. It's the muse that whispers in binary.

Abyss: Peer into the void of AI's limitations. Bias, black boxes, unintended consequences. The abyss gazes back.

New Language: Speak Python, TensorFlow, and PyTorch. Decode neural hieroglyphs. Conversations with machines.

New Sport: Compete in Kaggle arenas. Score touchdowns with neural nets. The adrenaline rush of accuracy metrics.

Paint Set: AI wields brushes of pixels. Colorize old photos, compose symphonies, and dream in RGB.

Group Effort: Collaborate in open-source communities. Code together, debug together. AI, a collective masterpiece.

Private Study: Solitude and algorithms. Late nights deciphering code. The quiet hum of GPUs.

Way of Life: AI permeates existence. From chatbots to recommendation engines, it's woven into our digital fabric.

Religion: Worship at the altar of neural activations. Seek enlightenment in backpropagation. The church of Turing.

New Beginning: Reset weights, initialize hope. AI, the phoenix rising from data's ashes.

Deeper Dive: Plunge into your passions. AI augments astronomy, music theory, ecology. Illuminate your interests.

Choose your prism. AI awaits - a canvas, a labyrinth, a quantum leap.

WHAT AN ENRICHED RESPONSE !!!!

My response to Copilot:
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Reply in words that a five year old would understand



Copilot
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Sure! Imagine AI as a magical toolbox. ???

Magic Tools: Inside this toolbox, there are special tools that can think and learn like wizards. They're called algorithms. ???????

Talking Robots: These tools help us create talking robots. You know, like when you talk to Siri or ask questions on the computer. ????

Picture Painters: AI can also paint pictures! It uses colors and shapes to make beautiful art. ????

Brain Helpers: Just like how our brains remember things, AI can remember too! It helps us find answers and solve puzzles. ????

New Languages: AI speaks its own language. It's like learning a secret code to talk to computers. ?????

So, AI is like a magical friend that helps us do cool things with computers


NOTE: the ??????? were all emoticons that would appeal to a 5 year old !!!

Question 3: Nagel re Consciousness

I googled: Did Nagel say "Someone is conscious if it is like something" '


Google said:
Your search - Nagel said "Someone is conscious if it is like something" - did not match any documents.



But I asked Copilot:
Did Nagel say "Someone is conscious if it is like something"

Copilot
Yes, Thomas Nagel, a philosopher, famously expressed the idea that consciousness is characterized by 
what it is like to experience something. He coined the phrase: "Someone is conscious if it is like something" . 
In other words, when we are conscious, there is a subjective experience - an inner "what it feels like" to be us. 
Nagel's exploration of this concept has influenced discussions on the nature of consciousness and the mind.


But if I removed the quotation marks, Google said:
Perhaps the most fundamental and commonly used notion of "conscious" is captured by Thomas
 Nagel's famous "what it is like" sense (Nagel 1974). When I am in a conscious mental state,
 there is "something it is like" for me to be in that state from the subjective or first-person
 point of view.



To get a better response, I had to rephrase my question to Google.  And the answer was not as
 well presented


WHAT MORE NEEDS TO BE SAID? Copilot is somewhat better than Google !!!

7 Reasons why Copilot is better than ChatGPT

This comparison is as of 2024DApr25.
See Source 07 for more information.

1. No Knowledge cutoff
2. Footnotes
3. A more advanced model
4. Voice inputs
5. Image inputs
6. Image generation
7. Shopping assistance 

Other Thoughts

Sources

Book Sources

Video Sources

Web Sources

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The 10 Best AI Courses in 2024

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Aristotle's Categories

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Inventors / Thinkers

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Impact Of AI On University Graduates

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AI . . Smarter than any human. . . by 2025

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Google releases . . .new free resources to help you . . . . AI prompts

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7 Reasons why ... Copilot instead of ChatGPT