The O*net papers are great, but they don’t tell us how jobs will change.
Three hints to the future of AI in this paper: 1) It is close to outperforming the top humans at geometry (superhuman performance is possible) 2) It combines a language model & other AI approaches (hints of the value of tools) 3) It trained on AI-generated data (big for training)
The first outbreak of the Plague, the 541 Plague of Justinian, was thought to have effectively ended the Roman Empire & killed over 1/3 of Europe. But new historical work hasn’t found strong evidence for large-scale disease. (But the debate continues)
Scientists have also successfully built logic gates by using swarms of soldier crabs. It takes about 80 🦀 to operate a logic gate, and there are 8 logic gates in a byte, so 640,000 crabs can be used to store a single tweet. Which seems kind of horrifying. 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
What you learn in college matters more than many think. This paper tracks the earnings of students across Texas universities & finds that the prestige level of the school (& quality of peer students) doesn’t seem to do much. Instead, instructional spending & majors matter more.
This paper is a nice summary of what GPT-4’s vision capability can and can’t do It does an impressive job on overall “reasoning” about images, but also gets details wrong and is open to adversarial attacks as it focuses on lot on the text in the image