Summer ends in a week.
I just Googled it to be sure and it still doesnt make sense.
None of 2020 makes sense.
The US elections are six weeks away.
Its already pumpkin spice season.
I am not ready for any of this.
The good news should be that vaccines are imminent.
And thats good, but it has to be taken with a bitter grain of salt.
Vaccines arent off switches for diseases.
The vaccine is just a small part of the solution, which is something people dont want to hear.
Weve still got to do all the other stuff too.
Its almost like millions of people are actually AIs constrained to the rules of their programmers.
You have to admit, their behavior is more robot-like than human.
Take GPT-3 for example.
Its an AI system that was basically fed the internet as a database for generating novel text.
That means it can speak on any subject… but never has a clue what its talking about.
This week, lets break down the vaccine outlook.
But he is one of the few people on the planet with academic access to GPT-3.
GPT-3 isnt smart at all.
Its a dumb bunch of ones and zeros that spits out the text equivalent of a hazy silhouette.
Thats not to say it isnt an important step on the way there.
Its just not the intelligent machinethe medias hyped it to be.
But its incredibly interesting.
Weve never seen that much raw power put behind a text generator.
And Hammer knows what a fascinating linguistic display looks like when he sees one.
This is the crossover we need.
Well, bye
I have this magic crystal ball that doesnt exist.
This week I asked it for an advanced copy of every COVID-19 research paper from the future.
Instead, it just saidVaccine?
Heres a list of things you all need to do right now.
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Stay 2-3 meters away from others in public spaces.3.
Support government officials who take the pandemic seriously.
Adios amigos,Tristan
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