[ExI] chatbots and marketing: was RE: India and the periodic table

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike we have thumb drives that can hold a trilobite.  Wait, no. A
terabyte.  No, wait.  That would be a piece of a monster.  Anyway, quite a
huge amount of memory, and we have memory problems?  bill w

On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 9:43 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *Sent:* Friday, 9 June, 2023 6:07 AM
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> *Cc:* William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] chatbots and marketing: was RE: India and the
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> Why couldn't the big AIs just upload the specialty ones?  Or create them
> itself?   bill w
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> Billw, it is because large language models are capacity limited.  I have
> heard (need confirmation or refutation) that ChatGPT was trained on about a
> trillion tokens (we can use the term “words” almost interchangeably with
> tokens (but as I understand it, a token is equivalent to a data bit (but
> token is a bit of meaning (computer hipsters, is that about right?)))
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> OK so… if the fishbowl contains 0.2 trillion words and a word is
> approximately equivalent to a token, then the fishbowl alone has gobbled up
> 20% of the capacity of ChatGPT, and it has not yet begun to contain even 1%
> of the essential human knowledge base, and squandered it on what plenty of
> users would consider a nonessential part of the human knowledge base.
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