Arben, On Wednesday I had asked, "Is DeepSeek doing something fundamentally different, or did they find a way to do it more efficiently?" You responded, "I have to say I'm not sure on that front—I'll try to look into this tomorrow and post about it in the Community thread." Have you had a chance to look into this yet?

Also, I am not seeing a Digest_Day5 in the Daily Q&A Digests.

Arben, Digest_Day5 is still not showing up in the Daily Q&A Digests. Did you by any chance put it in the Series 58 ChatGPT rather than the Series 62 ChatGPT? Thanks for the link. The three that I put in the other post are more about the geopolitical implications of AI and LLMs rather than their technology.

Okay, I found it (posted two days ago) using a link from the latest email received two hours ago (3/12 at 11:59AM).

Ah, yes! The digest can be added asap, which at this hour probably means Monday morning :). As for an updated notebook—if you mean the transcript of the chats, I've added that already and it should be visible. Let me know if not! (If you mean the questions people asked in the Thursday survey, I'll try to review those more thoroughly and provide answers where reasonable.)

Arben, Can you please explain your decision in your communications to abrogate the standard rule of capitalizing the first letter in a sentence? Is that just a strategy to minimize the time to post a response to a question/comment? Is it a standard style followed by certain tech people? Would you do the same in more formal settings, such as published articles? Are you in the vanguard of a movement to change the English language? No disrespect or criticism intended - I am just curious …

In response to the survey question, "How will you use what you learned at this Daily Study Group?" I wrote: I will have a better appreciation and understanding of what is being discussed in the numerous newscasts, podcasts, articles, interviews that one encounters about ChatGPT or other LLMs. Something the course did not address: How could the technology overviewed lead to the catastrophic results people are predicting about AGI? One would not think that even monstrously large matrices could produce malicious consciousness. (I am sometimes reminded of the book I read as a teenager, "Colossus: The Forbin Project", a 1966 science fiction novel by D. F. Jones, about super-computers taking control of mankind.) The things Arben demoed are really impressive, but there is no "mind" (with potential intensions) producing them. I would like to hear Arben's thoughts about these issues. Even more, can you point us somewhere that Stephen Wolfram has discussed these issues (potential threats of AI or AGI)?

Here is a good expert discussion: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JVPc3ObMP1L2a53T5LA1xxKXM6DAwEiC/view

Also: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Age_of_AI/Y2QwEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1

This could be considered a post-DeepSeek update to the reference above: https://www.csis.org/analysis/deepseek-huawei-export-controls-and-future-us-china-ai-race

Thanks Arbin, I did not see this aspect of the problem. Very interesting,