This Week I Learned - Week #17 2023
This Week I Learned - * OpenAI’s ChatGPT, GPT-4, is approaching human levels of intelligence—what is labeled “ artificial general intelligence .” GPT-4 already exhibits test-taking abilities generally well above the average human, scoring in the 99th percentile on the SAT Verbal and the 90th percentile on the LSAT. A primary concern is that the chatbots, as smart as they are, display erratic and autonomous behaviors. Risks abound when the internet becomes a playpen for thousands, perhaps millions, of artificial intelligence systems.Artificial Intelligence needs guardrails and global cooperation. - WSJ * Online tool to convert a video's VTT file to a transcript without any time codes, metadata, and extra lines. * Skype wasn’t really founded by Estonians but it was four Estonians (Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn, and Toivo Annus) who turned the founders' (Niklas Zennström from Sweden and Janus Friis from Denmark) vision into reality. Skype was first released in Augus