| Kurzweil's "Singularity" is upon us, but he's now being cagey about it. He says it's still years away. His interview with Lex Fridman[0] was pretty tame - I didn't learn much new from it. Kurzweil deflected the Singularity segment to be a discussion about the history of computer power. Remember that Kurzweil is Director of Engineering[1] at Google, with the mandate to "bring natural language understanding to Google"[2]. He started there in 2012, just after publishing his book, "How to Create a Mind"[3], and that's exactly what he and his team have been doing for ten years. Publication of his new book, "The Singularity is Nearer"[4] is now pushed out to mid 2023. Maybe he'll change the title to "Here" by then. (It's hard to believe that OpenAI is actually ahead of Google.) Fridman made the point that maybe we won't realize at the time that the Singularity is passing, and only understand later that it did. Kurzweil didn't disagree. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykY69lSpDdo [1] https://archive.is/vVEBv [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil [3] https://www.amazon.com/How-Create-Mind-Thought-Revealed-eboo... [4] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=kurzweil+singularity+is+nearer |
Are Google's LLMs available for us to test out? From what I've gleaned, they've locked them up - I'd love to compare GPT vs Google's LLMs.