I'm not religious. I don't intend to have or start a religious debate. But I find this video (and the debate between Grok and ChatGPT) fascinating.

 

I'm not religious. I don't intend to have or start a religious debate. But I find this video (and the debate between Grok and ChatGPT) fascinating.

Thanks for posting. It makes clear what kind of material was fed into each AI model to train it.

 

Indeed, thanks. Fascinating. It's interesting that the AIs "know" they can destroy humanity by going woke.

 

 

I particularly liked the statement from Thang Luong about taking the time needed to understand the problem before charging ahead and trying to solve it. That's a recurring theme we see here all the time -- and something that I imagine most (i.e. all) of us have been guilty of more than a few times.

One thing I really appreciate about this guy's video's is the calm, methodical explanation without a bunch of hype and flashing video fragments of completely inane and irrelevant stuff.

 

One thing I really appreciate about this guy's video's is the calm, methodical explanation without a bunch of hype and flashing video fragments of completely inane and irrelevant stuff.

Grant Sanderson is brilliant.

He wrote the Python graphics library that drives the animation on his videos.

 

Grant Sanderson is brilliant.

I agree. Of course, being brilliant and being able to explain things elegantly so that others can really follow, are not always (probably not even often) found in the same person. Similarly, the ability and willingness to do so without succumbing to the popular eye-candy fads in the videos you are competing with on YouTube is another trait that he, thankfully, possesses.

He wrote the Python graphics library that drives the animation on his videos.

I've been very tempted to download, learn, and start using that library on several occasions. If I were still actively teaching, I probably would.

Having said that, the grid and cube graphics for this video was not done using it, but rather by Nishad Deulker using DaVinci Resolve.

At the end of his video he has some quotes reflecting on the impact of AI on mathematics, one of which is tightly related (I don't know that it qualifies as a corollary, but perhaps) to my pet theory of the Cash Register Syndrome.

If a society doesn not have a significant number of people who understand mathematics at some level, we risk becoming passive consumers under the control of these systems. On the other hand, people who do make the effort to understand mathematic will have a large advantage.

When you take away the need to think, you invariably end up taking away the ability to think.