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When I was a kid, I read an article by Isaac Asimov complaining that the pace of scientific publication had become so great that he couldn’t possibly keep up. When I was an adult, I realized that the end of the article – in which he claimed that if you heard panting behind his office door it was because he was out of breath from trying to read the scientific literature – was a veiled reference to masturbation. Yep, Isaac is the Grand Dirty Old Man of science fiction, and, man, we love you, but, damn, sometimes, you needed a filter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the future is now, and the story is repeating itself – sans Isaac’s ending; my regular fiction is a touch blue so there’s no need for my blog to get prurient. I’m a robotics researcher turned consultant, focusing on, among a kazillion other things, language model planning – robots using tools like ChatGPT to write their own programs. As part of this, I’m doing research – market research on AI and robotics, general research on the politics of AI, and technical research on language models in robotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A good buddy from grad school is now a professor, and he and I have restarted a project from the 90’s on using stories to solve problems (the Captain’s Advisory Tool, using Star Trek synopses as a case-base, no joke). And we were discussing this problem: he’s complaining that the pace of research has picked up to the point where he can no longer keep up with the literature. So it isn’t just me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the best story yet on how fast things are changing? Earlier this month, I was going through some articles on large language models my research – and a new announcement came out while I was still reading the articles I had just collected that morning<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singularity, here we come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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