Simon Peyton Jones

I even have a talk.

The talk is called Bits with Soul.

They're easy to grab for.

It's a talk I gave to an audience that was not computer science audience at all.

It was a completely lay audience ranging from 14-year-olds to professors of quantum mechanics.

Pretty difficult audience to address.

It was meant to be all about codes and coding and bits.

tries to get at the essence of why do I think it's important that every child, every person, every human being should understand something about the computational universe that surrounds them.

And that is founded in bits.

Now, just to develop the analogy a bit further, I would then say, and it also, I think I want them to also know about programming programs.

I want them to know that computers fundamentally execute by following machine instructions blindly.

That is not magic.

It's not hocus pocus.

It's just remorseless and very dumb.

It's incredibly empowering then.

And also to learn the basics about how neural networks work.

In the same talk, I explain how a one neuron neural network works.

And that's enough.

Then it's actually true to say, not distorting the facts, to say chat GPT is just a trillion of those.

Wired together.