#029 GPT-3, Prompt Engineering, Trading, AI Alignment, Intelligence

This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Dr. Keith Duggar, Yannic Kilcher and Connor Leahy cover a broad range of topics, ranging from academia, GPT-3 and whether prompt engineering could be the next in-demand skill, markets and economics including trading and whether you can predict the stock market, AI alignment, utilitarian philosophy, randomness and intelligence and even whether the universe is infinite!  00:00:00 Show Introduction  00:12:49 Academia and doing a Ph.D  00:15:49 From academia to wall street  00:17:08 Quants -- smoke and mirrors? Tail Risk  00:19:46 Previous results dont indicate future success in markets  00:23:23 Making money from social media signals?  00:24:41 Predicting the stock market  00:27:20 Things which are and are not predictable  00:31:40 Tim postscript comment on predicting markets  00:32:37 Connor take on markets  00:35:16 As market become more efficient..  00:36:38 Snake oil in ML  00:39:20 GPT-3, we have changed our minds  00:52:34 Prompt engineering a new form of software development?  01:06:07 GPT-3 and prompt engineering  01:12:33 Emergent intelligence with increasingly weird abstractions  01:27:29 Wireheading and the economy  01:28:54 Free markets, dragon story and price vs value  01:33:59 Utilitarian philosophy and what does good look like?  01:41:39 Randomness and intelligence  01:44:55 Different schools of thought in ML  01:46:09 Is the universe infinite?  Thanks a lot for Connor Leahy for being a guest on today's show. https://twitter.com/NPCollapse -- you can join his EleutherAI community discord here: https://discord.com/invite/vtRgjbM

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Welcome! We engage in fascinating discussions with pre-eminent figures in the AI field. Our flagship show covers current affairs in AI, cognitive science, neuroscience and philosophy of mind with in-depth analysis. Our approach is unrivalled in terms of scope and rigour – we believe in intellectual diversity in AI, and we touch on all of the main ideas in the field with the hype surgically removed. MLST is run by Tim Scarfe, Ph.D (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecsquizor/) and features regular appearances from MIT Doctor of Philosophy Keith Duggar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-keith-duggar/).