<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">The buzz about chatGPT has apparently convinced Microsoft to invest $10 billion (!) in OpenAI. It looks like a new arms race between Google, Microsoft and Meta is emerging. Who will create the first self-aware AI by connecting such a large language model to the world?</div><div dir="auto">https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/10/microsoft-to-invest-10-billion-in-chatgpt-creator-openai-report-says.html</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It feels as if human-level AI is not that far away anymore now that machines have learned language. This NY Times article about large language models and ChatGPT is a bit older, but still good. As the article says "maybe predicting the next word is just part of what thinking is."</div><div dir="auto">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></body></html>