ChatGPT’s AI Potential Amazes, Yet Alarms
Bill Nee
News media have been buzzing about ChatGPT-4’s recent artificial intelligence rollout. In this month’s TEDx Talk, OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman explores the underlying design principles of ChatGPT and demonstrates some of its mind-blowing, unreleased plug-ins that sent shockwaves across the world.
After the talk, the curator of TED, Chris Anderson, joins Brockman to dig into the timeline of ChatGPT’s development. Anderson also explores Brockman’s take on the risks, raised by many in the tech industry and beyond, of releasing such a powerful tool into the world.
The behind-the-scenes design of this cutting-edge technology is shared in this 30-minute TEDx program. Brockman wants us to think of ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner, and wants the technology to benefit all of humanity.
To view Brockman’s informative talk, enter in your search browser, “TEDx Talks.” You will see on the top of your options “TEDx Talks—YouTube.” Click on that link, then input in the search box his title, “The Inside Story of ChatGPT’s Astonishing Potential,” to bring up the talk you selected.
LLL Board Initiates New, Annual Appreciation Award
Carole and Phil Korzilius are the first recipients of the new, annual Board Appreciation Award for Dedication and Commitment to LifeLong Learning.
Patricia Ingalls
LifeLong Learning (LLL) is a successful organization because of the dedication of all its volunteers. This season, the LLL Board of Directors decided to create a new, annual award called the Board Appreciation Award for Dedication and Commitment to LifeLong Learning.
“As the award was discussed, two names immediately rose to the top of the list: Carole and Phil Korzilius,” said LLL President Paul Polk. “I know when I think of LLL, I think of the Korzilius’s and their exceptional dedication to all aspects of LLL. It was a pleasure to award them this new honor.”
The married couple received their award at LLL’s annual volunteer reception, held April 12, in Tuscany Falls Chianti Room. Their names appear on a plaque, now on display in the LLL Center, Room 107, ready for additional recipients’ names to be engraved in future years.
Both Carole and Phil were born in 1942 in Racine, Wis. Their high school friendship grew into dating off and on during five years of college, while attending different schools.
Carole was recruited to study in Hamburg, Germany, and prepared to go into college teaching. Staying in touch was difficult, when a phone call would have cost the equivalent of one month’s dorm fees. She completed a master’s degree in German and, at age 23, became a college lecturer and housemother to senior girls. Phil was subject to the draft and entered the Air Force, after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in economics. At age 25, the time seemed right for marriage, and the newlyweds left for Othello, Wash.
The Air Force, Carole said, has ways of retaining people: Schools lead to extended commitments, then promotions, and a growing sense of mission and purpose. During 20 years of active duty, Phil served one or more tours in Washington, Thailand, Denver, Cape Cod, Germany, Virginia, and Nebraska. Carole became a military wife and then a Montessori mom with the arrival of their three children. After Phil retired as a lieutenant colonel, with a master’s degree in public administration, he took a position as program manager for GTE, later General Dynamics. Carole picked up a master’s degree in public administration and moved into town administration in Franklin, Mass. In 2003, Phil was asked to head a team working with the army in Germany. Once there, Carole joined the GD team, pleased to find a practical use for her German.
In 2004, Carole’s brother, Jon Jensen, had settled in PebbleCreek, and Phil and Carole came for a visit. That settled it—PebbleCreek was going to be their long-term home. Phil retired in 2006, and they moved into a new house in Tuscany Falls.
In 2009, Priscilla Naworski invited them to bring Great Decisions under the LifeLong Learning umbrella. Gradually, Carole grew into the position of director of classes and recruited Phil for tech duty. Over the years, the two have contributed much time and talent to LLL—but they say that they gained far more in fun, friendships, and, of course, lifelong learning.