Hi, Iām Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.
How should we think about vaccine passports? I discuss with Exponential View members in our Friday discussion. Itās not too late to join the conversation.
If you missed it, this weekās Chart of the Week looks at Japanās energy crisis, the flow of venture capital into Africa, Teslaās worth, and more.
Dept of the near future
Google recently trained a new language model with 1.6 trillion parameters. The more parameters, the more sophisticated a model can appear. OpenAIās GPT-3, about which Iāve written, had 175bn parameters and good craft some technically impressive outputs. Now that firms have figured out that increasing the complexity of these models drops jaws, there is obviously some competition going on. Microsoft (which pulled out a 17bn model last year that was briefly the worldās biggest) is also in the runniā¦
