Simon Anderson

Applied Foresight Keynote Speaker, Award-Winning Author. Informed Outsider. I help leaders and organizations be future ready.

[Patrick Bigger @patrickmbigger]

I'm at the global biodiversity meetings where rich world governments like the USA are saying, with a straight face, that there's no more public money available to keep the planet habitable for most species. Just disgraceful.

[Josh Tetrick @joshtetrick]

The world's FIRST butcher shop to sell cultivated meat is Huber's Butcher in Singapore - beginning today!

[Simon Anderson @Futur1st]

@legaltechIRL "Augment not replace" is like the tagline for companies introducing new AI tech, but I fundamentally don't understand why they don't take it one step further and address what happens when each worker can do much more.

[Simon Anderson @Futur1st]

@legaltechIRL But those additional clients they are helping don't need to go somewhere else, so lawyers there are effectively being replaced. Maybe it lowers the price of service so people that would otherwise not hire a lawyer get helped though.

[Simon Anderson @Futur1st]

@legaltechIRL If it takes fewer lawyers to do the same amount of work, in my view, it's replacing lawyers. If augmented lawyers are more productive, you need fewer lawyers, even if it isn't replacing every function that one does. Augmentation = more productivity = net fewer people needed.

[Simon Anderson @Futur1st]

@legaltechIRL Westlaw Edge alone automates dozens of lawyer functions. Imagine a firm with no AI tech vs a firm with a full subscription to Edge. The second firm could have significantly fewer people and still have the same output.

[Soumith Chintala @soumithchintala]

This integrates GPT 3.5 with a Bing based retrieval system to verify / cite why it said what it said.

At best: it says what ChatGPT says and also provides citations.
On average: it won't be as detailed as ChatGPT but you can verify why it is saying what it is saying.

[Simon Anderson @Futur1st]

@legaltechIRL I would argue a lot of what lawyers do has already been replaced by AI, but no idea how long until all functions could replaced. Right now, it's just allowing a few lawyers to do the work of many.

[Simon Anderson @Futur1st]

@legaltechIRL "AI is not going to replace lawyers, but lawyers who use AI will replace lawyers who don't use AI." - Benjamin Alarie

[Joshua Browder @Joshuabrowder]

DoNotPay is building a chrome extension where you can specify something like “negotiate my Comcast bill down,” and it will use the Comcast online chat to lower your bill with GPT-3.

Over time, Comcast will also use LLMs. So robots will just be negotiating with each other!

[Simon Anderson @Futur1st]

"Two groups have announced powerful new generative models that can design new proteins on demand not seen in nature." https://t.co/q19Gd4yvnj

[Simon Anderson @Futur1st]

The ChatGPT API will mark the beginning of a significant shift in how we communicate with our technology across all platforms. CLI (DOS) > GUI > NUI > contextual conversation (CCI?)

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

With many online searches—for definitions, recipes, news context, basic answers to factual queries, weather, etc—people are looking for 1-5 paragraphs of information, not a list of hyperlinks.

This is where I think LLMs could replace the status quo with "answer engines."

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Before AutoCAD in 1982.

[michelle huang @michellehuang42]

i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child"

some reflections below:

[Simon Anderson @Futur1st]

If you write anything at all for work, stop whatever you're doing and take a few minutes to check out ChatGPT. Make sure you're seated.

[Kyle Russell @kylebrussell]

These tools are never going to be worse than they are now

[Simon Anderson @Futur1st]

@kylebrussell I've been playing with these tools for years, but today I was genuinely shocked by an answer from ChatGPT. The implications of this being freely available now are astounding.

[Shawn DuBravac, PhD @shawndubravac]

If only this worked IRL

Disney built an AI that can easily make actors look younger or older https://t.co/vgydCBfnVB

[Simon Anderson @Futur1st]

"It could eventually fly a 100-passenger aircraft a distance of 1,150 miles." https://t.co/IkdEEGKZ1e via @engadget

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