It's hard to worry about the "Terminator" dystopia when the "Elysium" dystopia is so much more imminent.

Good to know, thanks!

ChatGPT can work on PDF files? How does that work? Does it just parse and interpret the raw PDF file? I'd like to parse some PDF files with many (thousands) of repeated table structures and convert them to JSON, is that something ChatGPT might be able to help with?

Math3ma is Tai-Danae Bradley, the first author of the paper linked by the OP.

Sure. I see the potential of CT as being a language for expressing, reasoning about, and ultimately designing, AI/ML architectures abstractly.

In software development, we have the concept of "design patterns" that provide a common vocabulary with which we can describe common recurring patterns in software design at an abstract level. It cuts past the implementation details and allows us to focus on larger concerns, such as the composition and coupling of components, and the flow of information. This maturity in software development has allowed us to grow past brute forcing spagetti-code programs to developing robust enterprise-sized systems.

I believe that AI/ML is still in it's spagetti-code infancy. We have no idea how to build and compose AI/ML components into a system a disciplined way. To scale up to larger and more complex AI/ML systems, we're going to need to step back and look at AI/ML architectures more abstractly the way that software did with design patterns. I think CT may be able to help with that.

I'm bullish on CT in ML. I predict that in 10 years, that the word "functor" will be commonplace, similar to how the word "tensor" is now.

I also predict that we will misuse the word "functor" to mean "function", the way "tensor" is currently misused to mean "array", and mathematicians will continue to curse us for screwing up yet another one of their terms.

I'm a simple man... I see third party, I vote third party.