OpenAI's newly released Code Interpreter changes everything.
Every business on the planet now has access to an on-demand team of McKinsey consultants for $20/month.
To see why, here's what I was able to do in 10 minutes with my own company's data:
I run a newsletter called ChinaTalk () which covers US-China and technology policy.
After uploading the dataset of my 25k readers, it made a plan to help sell ad space. While ChatGPT could do something like this, what came next amazed me... https://t.co/8dmE8L4QaUchinatalk.media
On its own, it started writing python code to plot growth.
It was even smart enough to know it had to convert strings to numbers without me telling having to tell it to.
After asking it "what countries are most subscribers from?" it came up with this:
(thanks Israel!)
By just telling it to "do a cohort analysis" it created these charts
Then I just started telling it to "make interesting charts that can help me drive revenue," and here's what it came up with:
Keep in mind, I spent maybe 10 minutes on this. I've forgotten all the Python for data science I learned 5 years ago and used only very simple natural language prompts to generate this analysis.
Most businesses and bureaucrats don't have data analysts on hand to get insights from the data their organizations spit out.
With Code Interpreter, all of a sudden everyone who can come up with smart questions instantly also has the power of an MA in data science to answer them.
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Fwiw, this thing isn't perfect. It definitely made some errors and wasn't able to do everything I asked it (ie map geographically...it told me to export to tableau).
While it isn't better than an experienced data scientist, but for firms that don't have access it's huge
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THREAD on the Foreign Affairs magazine throwdown on the US-China endgame. What American policy is most likely to avoid WWIII?
We've got some real heavyweights in the ring today:
Rep. Gallagher + Trump NSC Pottinger
Ex Biden NSC Doshi
Ex State Weiss + Steinberg
ex IC Heer
Gallagher and Pottinger (G/P) piece made waves last month for the loudest articulation yet in 'respectable circles' that the US should make "victory" it's lode star, defining that as something which smells an awful lot like regime change
Hot out the gate is Rush Doshi, who recently wrapped up a few years on Biden's NSC. He says G/P are anchoring far too much on the Cold War, and going aggressive right now make conflict alot more likely
"U.S. engineers told Rest of World that some Taiwanese male engineers had calendars with bikini models on their desks and occasionally shared sexual memes in group chats.
A female American colleague, according to an American trainee who witnessed the conversation, asked a Taiwanese engineer to remove his computer wallpaper depicting a bikini model. One former American engineer said some local co-workers referred to him as a “white breeding pig,” implying he was only in Taiwan to sleep with local women. At a meeting, a manager said Americans were less desirable than Taiwanese and Indian workers, according to people who saw leaked notes, which circulated among trainees."
Lessons from Okimoto's 1989 classic "Between MITI and the Market: Japanese Industrial Policy for High Technology". A thread!
To start: MITI almost killed Sony in the cradle by not letting them purchase foreign semiconductor tech for $25k.
MITI's highest profile success, the VLSI project, probably would've happened anyways without government intervention.
Plus, VLSI's executive director said that the only reason he was able to get anything done was sake parties to get researchers to be friends across companies.
people give government officials far more credit than they deserve for designing it all
Why would Xi give Putin weapons?
If he does, will a US-China Cold War start for real?
THREAD on what might be the scariest geopolitical development in years
First, some context: recently reports emerged across credible western media that the US had intel that Xi was seriously contemplating sending lethal military aid to Russia.
That would mark a dangerous change from China’s behavior: as early as March 2022, Biden warned Xi of “consequences” should China provide “material support” to Russia — and so far China has mostly refrained.
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What does China's most important tech official have to say about ChatGPT?
A THREAD on China's AI blueprint featuring a revealing soccer analogy...
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Wang Zhigang, the head of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, did a ministers' press conference on March 5 during the Two Sessions ...
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... and specifically as part of the National People's Congress.
The NPC is China's "rubber-stamp" parliament. It might not be known for robust debate, but it is an essential platform for bureaucracy and power to meet.
Senior positions, incl. PRC president, will be filled.
COMPUTE THREAD — how will the geopolitics of AI compute impact the future of US-China relations?
In 2020, Ben Buchanan (now on the NSC) popularized the “AI triad”--the three inputs that drive national AI power. 1. data 2. algorithms, 3. computing power — or simply “compute.”
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First, compute: the amount of compute which modern machine-learning systems are demanding has been doubling every 6 months.
High end compute will be the key strategic resource for firms and nations hoping to ride the AI wave. arxiv.org/abs/2202.05924