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Granger: Programming languages model computer hardware rather than human processes
“We have this weird case right now where our languages, Python, pick any language, right? Is actually designed to model computer interaction, right? It's designed to model how computers work. Like, I'm gonna send TCP messages, and so on and so forth. But if you…”
Amodei: Python made up only 0.1% to 1% of GPT-3's training data
“When we looked through it was like, you know, it's hard to estimate, but it was something like, you know, maybe .1% to one percent of the data that we scraped was Python data.”
Jensen Harris: Textio uses off-the-shelf Python ML libraries, focusing on data pipelines
“Our actual, you know, machine learning algorithms and the core NLP stuff we do is the standard sort of Python libraries that You know, you can go download and use, but we have put an enormous amount of time into our data processing pipeline.”
Ex Machina Python code Easter egg outputs Murray Shanahan's book ISBN
“There's a point in the film where Caleb is typing into a screen to try and crack the security, and then some code flashes up on the screen at that point, and that code was actually written by me. And it just sort of flashes up, but what it actually does is if …”