Archives for February 2024

February 1, 2024 by David Such Leave a Comment

The “Hard Problem” of Consciousness

Recently we have been working nearly every day with ChatGPT, DALL-E, Midjourney and Bard, and this has led us to question whether these GenerativeAI models are intelligent.

The first problem you come across when trying to answer this question, is that no one agrees on what intelligence is. From that perspective, the question then becomes unanswerable. However, this is a bit of a cop out. A better yard stick of intelligence may be, “I can’t define intelligence, but I know what it looks like when I see it.” Using that criteria, we think that most people would agree that Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) has been achieved. Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI), also known as Weak AI, refers to AI systems designed to perform a specific task or a limited range of tasks. Unlike Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or Strong AI, ANI lacks the ability to apply its intelligence broadly across a wide range of contexts.

February 1, 2024 by David Such Leave a Comment

Maximising Medium Earnings by Looking at your Statistics

We were recently commiserating with another author about how difficult it was to extract meaningful actions from the current crop of Medium story statistics. We have tripled our publication rate, but unfortunately, revenue has not followed suite.

Our analysis had previously consisted of a cursory glance over the story stats and comparing the month on month income. However, if we were going to criticize the analytics provided by Medium, we should at least have a proper look at them.

February 1, 2024 by David Such Leave a Comment

Adding a User Interface to ChatGPT with BeeWare — Part 1

Attempting to massage user inputs and output in ChatGPT is painful. We spent hours trying to print some coloured text using LaTeX, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. So much for no code development, we have capitulated and resorted to pulling at the Python Interpreter. Trying something new, we have wrapped our GPT-4 engine in BeeWare, which promises write once run everywhere functionality. This will also allow us to compare the OpenAI API vs browser GPT responses.

Read More – https://medium.com/@reefwing/adding-a-user-interface-to-chatgpt-with-beeware-part-1-852f1758fd65

February 1, 2024 by David Such Leave a Comment

A Review of Cross Platform Development Tools and Frameworks

It is the dream of every developer to write code once and then deploy it frictionlessly to every available platform (macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, …). This is of course very hard to do in practise, as each platform does just about everything differently. “Viva la différence!”

As consumers this is a good thing, and gives us options. As developers, it is a huge pain in the neck. Because this is a big problem for devs, a lot of people have had a crack at solving it. Every so often, we stray from the path of native development and are tempted by the sweet promise of “write once, run anywhere!” The problem is if you need to do anything close to the metal or complicated, you usually have to drop down into native code, which kind of defeats the purpose. There are some applications that are categorically not suited to cross-platform solutions. Anything that requires deep system-level integration, minimal latency, or specialized use of hardware features, probably falls into this bucket.