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ChatGPT is a language model by OpenAI which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.

00:00 S04E03 ChatGPT Part 1
02:58 What is ChatGPT? 
06:17 Lineage of ChatGPT 
10:01 General Reasoning from Training on Code
25:13 Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
29:37 Dumb compute, stacked high
42:00 Talking to an Alien Intelligence
45:14 What's it good at and bad at?
56:05 The XY problem
01:03:36 GPT in Education
01:13:26 Eating High Status Jobs, Fulfilling Latent Demand

Links:
- https://chat.openai.com/
- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulator#Simulators
- http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
- https://xyproblem.info/

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