User:Darwin2049/ChatGPT4/Conclusions Synthesis

Overview
Interfacing/Access - Synthesis, Conclusions.

How Different Groups Can or Will Interact with this New Capability?

The development and uptake of artificial intelligence tools has been extremely rapid. We should expect to see at least two types of artificial intelligence approaches leading the charge... these will be characterized by:

• • generative AI systems these will increase in their versatility and proficiency to interact with users with a wide range of knowledge and skills proficiency; during 2023 the industry witnessed the emergence of remarkably powerful tools that can accept a text input and generate remarkable, even photorealistic imagery of all kinds; this has included the creation of synthetic people; i.e. people who do not nor have ever existed; equally image to text systems have been able to accept a single image of a real life situation or person and describe in surprising detail the contents, elements and actions that obtain within an image; as of April 2024 one major player has announced the development of a text to video creation tool; a user can present this system (SORA and more recently VASA-1) with a single still image and using this as a baseline create a full motion video;
  • large language models (LLM's): as of April 2024 the evidence is very clear that large language models (LLM's) are capable of perform such tasks as writing summaries, creating storylines and translations with remarkable proficiency; over time these will only get better;
    
    

The result will be that there will be new winners and losers. Therefore we believe that the new wave of capabilities will impact different groups solve problems internally or how those groups interact with each other will follow one or another patterns with characteristics resembling:

• existing peer group competition: within a group of actors whose objectives are the same or similar there will be a keen awareness of what peer or near peer rivals or competitors are doing; any move that imparts a competitive advantage will be closely observed; early adapters or innovators are likely to be the first ones to try out the new technology and assess its ability to be a good fit but one that remains within economical or budgetary considerations will be the actors that peer actors will watch with keen attention; that we should expect this will derive from the reality that within any group of actors with common limitations, objectives and resources the jockeying for advantage will be intense; an existing member in that group might make a move which others will study to see if it succeeds or fails;
• existing clients, rivals, targets interactions: we should expect to see the relationships between groups such as adversaries and targets to change in response to the relative ease or difficulty involved that an adversary such as a hacker might encounter when attempting to go after a heretofore easily attacked target; targets of prior cyber-hacking will avail themselves to increasingly sophisticated intrusion detection and prevention tools; this will make one groups (the attackers) efforts at suborning another groups (the targets) increasingly challenging and difficult; the result being that there will be a shift in focus from previously easy targets which have now levitated out of range to other easier to attack "low hanging fruit";
• emergent new actors: existing support actors that provide third-party add-on's will proliferate; these can already be seen in the context of add-on's or add-in's to all of the popular browsers such as Chrome or Microsoft Edge; these new actors will continue to provide augmentation capabilities to existing users but these new capabilities will be more focused on the development, deployment and maintenance of knowledge focused and intensive capabilities;
• very rapid uptake: or to put it another way... "the devil take the hindmost"; those groups that recognize the capabilities of these new tools will take them onboard and gain leverage in their respective spheres of activity;
• zero/non-zero games prevail: existing arrangement that involve competitive pressures will insure that any and all transactions whether zero sum or non-zero sum will remain; the time span between action and reaction will decrease however; also the level of sophistication of an action or a reaction will improve as well;
• conformal interactions: users will discover that their ability to interact with these new capabilities will be enhanced due to the ability to directly converse verbally with them; this has an upside but a downside as well; speaking comes naturally but is extremely low bandwidth; high and ultrahigh resolution graphics display capabilities coupled with verbal input and output will facilitate problem solving that more resembles "being in the zone"; i.e... the ability to remain focused on the salient and if necessary, crucial abstract elements involved in solving a problem;
• teamwork: the ability to create multi-agent autonomous systems will greatly enhance the problem solving ability of users who are versed in harnessing this new capability to their ongoing operations;
• prompting, fine-tuning - resource focusing: the ability to fine-tune and create ever more sophisticated prompts that drive the problem solving process forward will prove to be the make or break capabilities going forward for any groups or agents using this new technology; the more sophisticated users will use these tools themselves to refine the instructions (prompts) that are then feed back into them; the result will be logarithmically improved results;
• Cambrian explosion: looking forward a short distance we will see small to medium enterprises spring up that focus their efforts at fine-tuning and prompt-development that focus on very specific knowledge domains; these might be a specific but well known area of knowledge or might be specific to a specific company's products and services;
• early warning: the rapid pace of development and refinement will mean that within any given venue we should expect to see rapid to very rapid refinement as well as attrition of existing actors who were not able to maintain the pace of change; the ability to monitor developments closely and respond, if necessary, almost in real time will become crucial;

New Game (Zero, Non-Zero Sum) but on Steroids. We should expect to see the same or similar patterns of interaction between the set of actors that know about this technology and who acquire it. Therefore in cases where there were competitive pressures such as in the entertainment industry we might see screen writers augmenting their writing skills by using a tool such as a CG4 or its later incarnations. In the case of cybersecurity we should see increasingly sophisticated intrusion attempts. The increase in the sophistication of attacks will inevitably lead to increasingly sophisticated detection and prevention tools. In short... it will be the same old story, the same old song. It will just happen far more quickly.
The New "ABC's". Prompting, Super-Prompting and Fine-Tuning. Actors who will gain maximum benefit will combine prompting and fine-tuning with the creation of autonomous agents. Tool kits or ensembles of tools will emerge that will facilitate the ability to enable multiple instances of an AI system to interact and communicate with it siblings.
CP4 supported Prompt Refinement. Recent research efforts have demonstrated that a CP4 system can be directed to assist in the refinement of prompts which are then applied back to itself for further refinement. This recursive refinement capability means that stunningly focused queries will be possible when querying a CP4 type system.
Sudden Death. Those lacking in prompting and fine-tuning capabilities will be quickly marginalized and left behind.
For purposes of simplicity we refer to these artificial intelligence systems regardless of whether they are based upon LLM’s, generative, Convolutional, recursive or adversarial neural networks as cognitive prosthetics (CP’s). This is because these tools are remarkably capable at demonstrating extraordinary competence in specific skill areas they are still not demonstrably conscious and possess no sentience or intentionality.
Warp Speed Evolution. The sophistication will be exhibited will be startling. Current interface technology has reached a stunning point of sophistication. This rapid advance has been driven by high and very high resolution displays. The rapid advance in speech recognition and generation have progressed to the point that is very difficult if not impossible to determine if one is conversing with a human or a synthetic system. When these are combined the ability to engage deeply in the cognitive exploration or problem solving process will take a leap forward. Those actors capable of synthesizing various of these components together will be the winners in the emerging high speed pace of new technological innovation.
Display Technology. Ever increasing resolution in our display devices will further drive forward the use of CP4 type systems that are integrated with high and ultra-high definition and resolution.
T2S-S2T. Current voice synthesis systems are of such sophistication that they can not be distinguished from an actual human speaker. The ability of speech to text systems means in complementary fashion that we will be able interact and converse with these new systems simply by talking. This has both positive and negative ramifications.
Positive. On the positive side it means that fully lifelike imagery will become the new standard when viewing any process that can be imagined. By being able to have a very large display a sophisticated user will be able to partition areas of a screen that represent different levels of abstraction or levels of detail for selected aspects of a process or service under development.
Negative. On the other side interacting with these systems using voice input or output means that ultra low bandwidth input or output of information will continue. Entirely new modalities of interacting with these systems will emerge that enable this bandwidth bottleneck to be bypassed.
Display. By way of example, current 8K resolution displays are available. They currently reside at the high end price range. Therefore only agents and actors that can subsume this cost will be the early adaptors. In the offing are 16k resolution devices. A number of technology companies have demonstrated 32K resolution devices. These currently tend to be fairly large and require a wall to mount them on. Over time, market forces will drive the costs of these much more advanced display systems down.
Voice Technology – both speech recognition and generation have also reached a remarkably high level of sophistication. When these are combined with point whereby superseding it would require high definition holography.
Cambrian Explosion. Functionality, new capabilities emerge that will resemble the Cambrian era. We should expect to see new products and services wherein suppliers will mix and match multiple LLM's with complementary skills. Conversely we should also expect to see composite systems with skill groups that exhibit divergent capabilities. the numbers of knowledge sources is currently not known and can only be inferred.
Zero Sum. This means that there is an implicit recognition that all human commerce involves game-like transactional structures. These can be either zero sum games or non-zero sum games.
Open Sources. The HuggingFace website is a repository of open sources LLM datasets; these can be downloaded at not cost and used for any purpose.
Agents. As of April 2024 agent technology has become well recognized and accepted. Tools will continue to facilitate he creation of composite cognitive prosthetic (CP's). The ability to construct large composite systems. The range of variability will be very large due to the fact that it will be possible to connect any CP to any number of other homogeneous or heterogeneous system instance.

How Will or Can They Respond to its Existence and Presence. Recent studies have made plain that a powerful new technology will be adapted in record time if it is demonstrably a powerful leveraging tool; evidence of this can be seen in how quickly it is adapted.

• The CG4 "Uptake Curve". CG4 reached over one million users in a matter of days.
• Within Less Than Two Months. CG4 had reached 100 million users worldwide. This rapid uptake pace suggests that momentum has built that will drive further uptake by those less inclined to vigilance about the rapid pace of change that this technology brings;
• New Capabilities. An entire library of CG4 material has sprung into existence on how to use create new applications and extensions;

How will they be affected by this new capability.

• Personalized Tutors. CG4 provides a user with the ability to pose remarkably sophisticated questions on a broad range of topics; where the acquisition of a new skill or area of expertise is envisioned it is capable of creating a study guide with a complete syllabus that provides a pathway from even the most superficial grasp of a topic to its most advanced areas;
• Interactive Audio Books. Audio books will become passé; instead it will become preferable to be able to have a conversation with the book itself; were one to study the works of Konrad Nietzsche one would instead be able to effectively converse or otherwise "talk" with Nietzsche and discuss the various topics that the actual philosopher entertained when writing his works; we should expect to see variations on this capability wherein several legacy experts simulacra were instantiated and communications between them or existent users was enabled; a case in point might be enabling a conversation between Frank Herbert (author of Dune), Alan Watts and for instance, Jordan Peterson; a user initiating a session such as this would experience the two instances interacting and discussing with each other points of clarification; clearly even larger sets of knowledge areas can be brought to bear as well;
• Cross-Referenced Expertise Multiple insights will become available within a single interactive session; for instance were one to study the topic of Stoicism as described by Epictetus and his peers as described, one might be able to re-represent his insights into a compact symbolic logic representation; such a representation structure might be used to provide insight on family or personal matters by individuals trained as sociologists or psychotherapists; for a given psychotherapeutic setting, several points of view might be offered on a specific psychological issue; one perspective might derive from a Jungian approach to the problem; another perspective might derive from a Berne approach (transactional analysis); these two perspectives might "discuss and debate" with each other their respective positions and subsequently offer their recommendations on how to proceed;

• Individualized Advisors (professional and life coaches). Individuals who aspire to the top ranks incorporations have come to recognize that navigating a successful path to the top requires a range of skills including leadership, communication and narrative story telling. It is uncommon to find the full set of these skills in any specific individual. Enabling access to the insights of experts in each of these areas will become more accessible and available.
• Enhanced Collaborative Problem Solving. Existing WebEx, Skype or Zoom teleconferencing have become common in enabling voice and video online and real time discussion; stepping into a higher dimension we should expect to see individuals come to the fore each with their individualized CP tool set and offer access to their peer experts;
• Emergence of marketplaces for novel objects, products and services. CG4 class CP's are already spawning new products and services; one case in point can be seen with the availability of organizations offering vector database services to host extended memory for LLM's; the existing CG4 offers a broad range and depth of capability; for specific purposes however fine tuning is indicated; looking forward a short way down the road we should expect to see organizations offering their services or tools that facilitate the fine tuning task; the ability to fine tune a LLM will mean that there will be an explosion in the range, sophistication and depth of capability of LLM based tools;
• Novel and Inexplicable Disruptions Of service providers such as wireless or other online capabilities. The recent ransom-ware attacked that happened in Las Vegas in the US underscore the reality of malicious use of netcentric tools as weapons; as netcentric attacks were beginning to ramp up several years ago a favorite vector of attack was to use the distributed denial of service (DDOS) approach; in this approach hundreds or thousands of PC's were redirected to request a response to a specific web server; the requests were repeated endlessly until the hosting server was overwhelmed and was unable to respond; the result was that the website timed out; it became inaccessible; a variation on this approach can be used with comparable tools but targeted in a coordinated fashion at mobile phones; the result can be a combination traffic management attack combined with mobile phone attacks; that this is plausible is corroborated by the fact that users of such services as Tik Tok are able to geolocate a specific individuals location as well as launch other forms of disruption to that individual's mobile phone; were many individuals phones to be used as an attack vector then many people could find themselves trapped in a traffic gridlock and unable to reach others; the Israeli Pegasus tool has made very clear that it is fully capable of seizing control of any mobile phone on the planet;
• High Risk/Payoff Early Adapters. The early adaptors will explore the new terrain and gain the advantages that those who have mapped out the advantageous terrain is relative to the pitfalls. We should see a proliferation of tools that facilitate fine tuning, simplification of incorporation of vector databases that dramatically expand on a CP's ability to access a specific domain or set of knowledge domains.

Might the various access modalities that are available to one group have positive or negative implications for other groups.

• Early vs. Late Adapters. This pattern appears to repeat itself; therefore we should expect to see the same thing happen; those who can leverage these capabilities will define the new high ground; the rest will play catch up; or simply be left behind "in the past";
• Increasingly Chaotic Anecdotal Realities. Further fragmentation appears to be emerging as the new normal; deep fake news reports, conspiracy theories are likely to abound; new services will emerge comparable to Ground News wherein reporting sources will be ranked in terms of bias and reliability.
• Phenotypical Bifurcation. Currently the perceptible difference between individuals who are adept with a new technology vs. those who are not is typically not obvious; going forward the differences may remain somewhat obscure but the distance between the two categories are likely to widen to the point that one might as well identify the one group - early adapters and innovators as being members of a different phenotype compared to those who are slow to adapt; with the former group becoming adept at navigating the new reality in effect leaving the latter group to navigate with poor dexterity;
• Skills Explosion - Generalists & Specialists. New skill collection will emerge with the new environment; the explosion of the World Wide Web led to new categories of individual who were adept at web site creation, with the vast expansion of web sites the need for search emerged which led to organizations that organized and indexed the population of existing and new web sites; these refined their reason for existence by ranking and thereby promoting various sites; this led to the entirely new skill of search engine optimization (SEO); myriad new services have emerged such as virtual private networking, ad blocking and automatic notifications; the new environment will experience a comparable emergence of specialist skills that will facilitate usage of this new "fire";

Interface: Cases, Details

Interface - Question. The question as posed is to answer is how will differing groups or communities make use of this new technology. As in, how might one group intrinsically gain new advantage relative to others. In the case of zero sum or non-zero sum situations how might this technology confer advantage (or disadvantage) by one group relative to others.

Interface - Answer. Large Language Models represent a dramatic expansion of the possible. Entirely new sets of possibilities are emerging as a result. Answering the question of how different groups will use this new technology and how they will gain or lose advantage will depend upon how they navigate their way into this new realm. As of early 2024 there were several pathways forward. These included:

• Prompt Engineering.
• Super-Prompting.
• Fine Tuning.
• Targeted Tools and Uses.
• Autonomous Agent Tools.

Cognitive Prosthetics. In order to provide context it might be helpful to consider that the world has seen massive advances in technology, science, industry and commerce as a result of the hardware and software tools that we have come to take for granted. The include such commonly available tools as Microsoft Office, image editing, video construction and many other highly specialized software tools. These tools enable the design and creation of incredibly sophisticated products such as massive ocean cruse liners as well as amazingly sophisticated nuclear powered submarines. In all cases these tools typically have specialized access mechanisms. They typically require hours to days of specialized training to become conversant in their use. Then weeks or months of hands on practice to develop expertise and competence.

Advanced Cognitive Prosthetics (APCs - First Generation). This latest generation of tools should be considered as representing advanced cognitive prosthetics. This is because the means of access allows for direct verbal interaction and communication. At face value this might seem like a huge leap. However it must be kept in mind that in order to capitalize on systems of this order of sophistication the level of sophistication of the user is crucial. Their ability to fully leverage the power of these systems is grounded on the fact that they possess deep understanding of what the system is capable of. The converse side of the equation is the reality that verbal communication is inherently low bandwidth. Despite that being the case the availability of a conversational ACP means that new possibilities for exploring the search for solutions is now at another level.

Advanced Cognitive Prosthetics (APCs Second Generation). Large Language Models (LLM’s) such as ChatGPT4, LLAMA or DeepMind are software tools that function as powerful prosthetics. They bear resemble to the most sophisticated 3D printer or CRISPR-CAS13 genomic editing tool. They impart unheard of versatility and power to a competent user. Therefore we view LLM’s and their peers are advanced cognitive prosthetics (ACP’s). We expect to see them being used to further enhance already existing processes or tasks in ways that have heretofore not been imagined.

Advanced Conformal Cognitive Prosthetics (ACCP). The current generation of LLM’s tools that enhance existing cognitive functioning and task completion in ways that are very comparable to having a knowledgeable assistant in performing an already known or defined task.

In this view a ACP's traits could be viewed from the perspective of a surgeon's glove. In this case it would be like enhancing the glove with a variety of unobtrusively incorporated supporting tools. Continuing with this metaphor one might imagine that the fabric of the glove has a built in scalpel, light, laser, magnifying lens, clamps and suturing tools.

Keeping the reality of different groups gaining or losing advantage we expect that existent interactions between varying communities will continue as before. The sophistication and pace of exchange will vary however.

New Day Same Problem. Different groups will seize this new technology and search for ways in which to further their existing positions. This means that existing operational or transactional approaches will be preserved but modified as this new technology’s new capabilities and limitations become increasingly evident.

Prompt Engineering. Repeated use of LLM has placed focus on the crucial role of being able to pose useful queries to the system. LLM's possess a great deal of knowledge that is generally opaque to a user. The specific forms of response or knowledge is intrinsically present in the system however eliciting relevant responses that illuminate that knowledge is challenging. Therefore we are seeing a rise in the category of users or super-users who construct highly focused prompts for specific or broad use.

Domain Query Experts. Prompt Engineering has already revealed an iteration when it comes to accessing and using a LLM. In the case of broad availability of open source LLM's several groups have emerged who place focus on formulating highly effective prompts. These prompts are described as being "Super Prompts". Typically these Super Prompts incorporate multiple refinement structures that direct the LLM to perform a query in highly sophisticated ways. Early prompts used what have been called chain of thought approaches.

A tree of thought is a more powerful form of prompting. It enables more sophisticated queries to be posed to an LLM. With the tree of thought a prompt would direct the LLM to perform its functioning in a manner that resulted in parallel actions being executed against the LLM.

forest of thought are even more powerful querying techniques that facilitate deeper access into the LLM's capabilities.

LangChain. This is a development framework that a very knowledgeable software developer would use to construct domain or task specific tools that use an LLM as a core element.

Recent developments have emerged that place focus on providing very sharp and targeted queries to a LLM. This new approach is characterized by what are known as Super Prompts. In this case a prompt is constructed

Darwinian Escalation Ladder. This will prove to be a continuing journey. This new technology is self replenishing and self extensible. Therefore answering the question of how different groups will interact as the modalities of interaction will constantly change.

Current Snapshot. Therefore at most answering this question can only be tentative and iterative. Any current characterization of how individuals or groups will use this new technology can only be momentary. Subsequent characterizations will require modification from insights that will be refined and developed over time.

Known. Therefore in order to move forward suggests approaching this question from a relatively obtuse starting point. By this we mean that the means of using or sharpening and focusing on the ability of this capability over time.

By way of example. These fall into a small group that suggest how it is currently being used. What can immediately be identified are the means whereby a LLM is initially trained. Subsequent iterations of use will reveal that generic LLM’s can have their performance improved. There are several means wherein further performance improvements are suggested by several venues. These arise as a result of how LLM’s function and are brought forward for broad or general use.

Categories. In subsequent sections of this document the reader will find a short list of known areas or activities which are known to be impacted by advances in the world of CP’s.

• Teaching/Training/Advising/Entertaining.
  
• Informing/Persuading.
  
• Analysis.
• Summarizing.
  
• Illuminating/Discovering.
  
• Subverting/Suborning/Disabling This is a live map of world wide net-centric threats. Looking forward we would expect to see the frequency and sophistication of these attacks to increase pace and tempo.
• Malicious Dual use ACP tools will be used for hacking or other forms of net-centric attacks.

Examples. Cases already exist where an existing trade, skill or profession have large populations of individuals who use their skills in these areas.

Local/Sequestered GPT Instances.

• GPT4All.
• PrivateGPT.
• H2O.
• Run GPT from your own site.

Deep Fake Tools.

• Voice. The ability to clone a person's voice with a high degree of fidelity and accuracy increases the range of constructive as well as malicious uses that this new technology can be applied to.
• Imagery. Tools such as MidJourney and Dall-E are capable of creating imagery that is indistinguishable from photographic imagery. The trend toward increasingly lifelike imagery will simply continue.
• Video. The ability to construct a video from any narrative is now possible with existing deep fake video editing software. Using tools that enable face swapping means that any person whose face has or can be captured in a public venue can merged with t he image of a prominent person such as a politician or cinematic figure. Moreover anything that the fake video providers might want that public person to appear to be saying can now be done seamlessly to the point that it is almost impossible to determine if that public figure actually said what was presented.

Fine Tuning.

• LoRa.
• Bulk User Curated.