What is ChatGPT doing...and why does it work?

Wolfram on the End of the Age of Know It Alls.

 

The New Gatekeepers - Benedict Evans | Slush 2022

Content Delivery for Metaverse and Digital Twins - Panel - ACM

 

Geoff: 

the metaverse application would require kind of some form of a ubiquitous

content Discovery local content Discovery uh and not even working with

the servers like some completely distributed fashion operations so I'm kind of curious what Jeff Jeff Houston

thinks uh about what the existing infrastructure so are we still need to imagine those applications

within the existing infrastructure or we still we really want to imagine applications and then think of how they

need what kind of infrastructure if any need to be added like in into the

existence to support those imaginative models now I'm just trying to bring to to the

comment that uh we're not gonna do anything new or anything new is doomed

until we can do it cheaper well you know infrastructure investment

is really really hard and what we've seen in the last 10 years is a complete Revolution

in the infrastructure of today's internet this is not a peer-to-peer Network

over the last 10 years the only folk who will be building some and financing submarine cables the only folk who have

been tipping money into the plant have actually been content distribution Networks

the traditional Carriage sector the telcos have been investing nothing the internet is actually a Last Mile

Access Network full stop your packets travel to the nearest Data Center and intersect with a variety of

content distribution points of presence there is no end to end there is no peer

to peer anymore that is a marginal business that doesn't attract profit

what attracts profit is actually streaming YouTube is streaming Netflix streaming Amazon Prime video you know

etc etc and the infrastructure has actually subtly morphed to do precisely

that and no more right the only focus I said building

long-distance Transit infrastructure is actually to interconnect the content Data Systems it's nothing to do with

users packets anymore that's a loss making opportunity that no one wants to do so when you talk about overlaying

some pan CDN metaverse context across a

world of disparate highly aggregating and highly competitive service Networks

you're dreaming you're dreaming because each of them see themselves in a capture mode of users

the same way as we saw the bulletin board world in the 1980s exclusive

capture interoperability is not a feature of today's network not a feature and so

when you dream of these all-embracing environments these metaverse style environments

then how exactly you're going to do that becomes a really really big issue in

today's Network because today's network has gone in an entirely separate Direction entirely

who's going to pay to recover a peer-to-peer network with huge Transit

capability that's not cheap and all of the money is currently with

alphabet with apple with Amazon with you know meta all of the investment money is tied up

in a model that is almost antithetical to what you're talking about here

so when you want to talk about the multi-billion or trillion dollar capital investment it's not going to come from Santa Claus

or the Easter Bunny you know you actually need a case where either users are going to pay good luck

or some third party is going to pay I.E advertising why would I jump from

advertising on Google and Amazon and Facebook jump from advertising there to jump to advertising in some kind of

metaverse what's the business case and the issue is you're dreaming that these things are

remarkably difficult to disrupt and unless the value package you offer is

completely revolutionary by stripping cost and you drag customers in by making

it cheaper not more expensive you haven't got a hope and this is the reality we've learned,

NVIDIA Special Address at CES 2023

Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Tele-absence

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Digital Twin Spin

Another episode of I Read The News Today Oh Boy

InSAR Earth Eye - Some folks are thinking about twins in space A Research Profile looks at Application of satellite technology in infrastructure monitoring using Satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) monitoring. The site is that of a 5 year UK program that dutifully shut down when it reached five years. Good sports, what? From <https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/news>

ESG could be twinish. Since it monitors systems. In realtime maybe. And even as a RT market. ESG has its failings. Its honest critics who see Green washing is real. ESG also has its enemies – and these include Oil Loving Texans. A vision of the future is blurred when the Texas Public Policy Foundation, backed by oil and gas companies and Republican donors, enters the fray. From <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/climate/texas-public-policy-foundation-climate-change.html>

 

Supply chain twin view – From the MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation lab. In Sloan Review it is written: “Digital twins observe their physical environment through a network of sensors that dynamically gather real-time data; they evolve by learning from this information and its contexts and by interacting with humans, devices, and other networked digital twins. Such a capability makes digital twins active and social tools, because they can continuously communicate and collaborate with their associated physical and digital objects and with humans. Digital twins support end-to-end visibility and traceability, enabling supply chain practitioners to spot patterns of highly complex and dynamic behavior.” From <https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/unlocking-the-potential-of-digital-twins-in-supply-chains/>

 

Twins go to the city, or let’s get civil - At Columbia University, a three-year project — Hybrid Twins for Urban Transportation: From Intersections to Citywide Management — that began in 2021 is working to create a digital twin of key intersections and other locations in New York City. It is not alone. Other civil engineering projects involving digital twins include a computer model being created of the Houston water system and a sensor-based, real-time decision-support system used by the city of South Bend, Indiana, to better understand the hydraulic conditions in its sewer system. There’s more:  Civil engineers and others have also formed a new organization, the Coalition for Smarter Infrastructure Investments, to promote greater use of digital technology in infrastructure projects. From <https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/civil-engineering-magazine/article/2022/09/in-nyc-digital-twin-project-tackles-traffic> JV

 

NeurIPS 2022 Skidoo!

 

Caption this! Said to be from Lecun session… 

LLM Awakens - Prof. Chalmers discussed "Could a large language model be conscious?" at the Nov. 28th opening keynote of the 36th annual Neural Information Processing Systems conference, commonly known as NeurIPS, in New Orleans Read it. ZDNet

 Dont lose the compass - “Mortal computation" means analog computers marrying AI closely to hardware will put GPT-3 in your toaster on the cheap. Read it. ZDNet

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