Samuel Frost

The adoption rate of ChatGPT has accelerated rapidly since late 2022. I don't believe I have consciously been aware of such a rapid uptake of a new technology in my lifetime. The World Wide Web certainly, but I took this for granted and grew up alongside it. The development that I was most aware of would be the development of Google search in the late 1990s and the subsequent explosion in popularity in the years that followed. Growing up, I was lucky enough to use Microsoft Encarta to find infor...

From Sydney Morning Herald January 16th, 2023 “I get a real giggle out of those pretentious job titles and company slogans,” says Adrian Connelly of Springwood. “Apparently, a job vacancy is now a ‘situationship’, and I recently saw an elevator company’s vehicle with ‘Dedicated to People Flow’ emblazoned on its side panels. Sounds like the motto of a urologist or a laxative manufacturer.” Elevators (or 'lifts') are much more than just 'Dedicated to People Flow' – or are they? I am sure the e...

I have been hearing a lot about ChatGPT recently. ChatGPT was launched in November 2022 by OpenAI, and in its own words it "is a language model developed by OpenAI. It is a machine learning model that can generate text, such as writing essays, article, stories and also it can generate text based on given context. ChatGPT is based on the GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) architecture, which was trained on a massive amount of data, allowing it to generate text that is often indistinguishab...