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The Dawn of Mediocre Computing - by Venkatesh Rao

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AI and crypto have achieved mediocre-human parity. Where to now? Kicking off a new series.

The Dawn of Mediocre Computing AI and crypto have achieved mediocre-human parity. Where to now? Venkatesh Rao Dec 03, 2022 125 1 Share This is the opening essay of the Mediocre Computing series. Well, we all knew it was coming. Computers already easily overwhelm the best humans at chess and Go. Now they have done something far harder: achieved parity with David Brooks at writing. OpenAI’s ChatGPT , released as a research beta two days ago, has done to the standard high-school essay what cameras did to photorealistic painting and pocket calculators did to basic arithmetic. It is open sign-up an

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