Joe Allen

AI is just math.

That's sort of true, but it's only as true as saying that the human brain is just bioelectrical signaling.

The human brain is just math.

The neural network, if you could imagine a lot of virtual neurons with virtual axons connecting them, is trained, not programmed.

Or as it said, it's grown, not crafted.

What that means is when you create a massive virtual brain such as ChatGPT or Grok or Claude from Anthropic, you don't go in and tell it what to say when a user asks it a question.

You create first, you program the brain, you create this structure that is able to receive information, process it, in some sense, vague sense, understand it.

and then reply to questions coherently.

So in the case of ChatGPT, especially GPT 3.5, you had a neural network, a virtual brain that read, so to speak, the entire internet for the most part, all of Wikipedia, a whole lot of lived out Reddit posts,

And it took this massive amount of information, basically the majority of all human literary output, and it came to kind of understand it.

That's why when ChatGPT was first released and it was not connected to the internet for search, it was able to answer questions for better or worse somewhat accurately.

It understood, so to speak, what human language contained.

This is an enormous breakthrough.

You hear all the time, AI has been around forever.

We know it was coined in 1956.

We know that the idea of the perceptron and the neural network goes back to the 60s.

But despite all of these kind of dismissive claims, without a doubt, the last 10 years has seen an explosion in AI capabilities so that something like ChatGPT simply wasn't existent

before 2017, really.

And as it moves forward, they continue to scale this brain up so that when you move from, say, GPT-3.5 to the newest iteration, at least available to the public, ChatGPT-5,

you have an enormous expansion of capabilities, both in mathematics, reading and writing, language processing overall, visual and auditory processing.