According to Wikipedia – “The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international financial institution owned by central banks that fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks. The BIS carries out its work through its meetings, programmes and through the Basel Process – hosting international groups pursuing global financial stability and facilitating their interaction.” – so much to the officially carried storyline. Since its inception, the mother of all banks has lived fairly quietly in the shadows of the Swiss Alps out of sight of public recognition. With the looming introduction of digital “money” (CBDC) the bank and its official campaign has a hard time downplaying their intent to switch to a digital fiat system on steroids. Meanwhile there is increasingly more news about the bank than some years ago. The crypto crowd is especially on high alert and is beating the libertarian sob drum since the switch would signal the end to their digital playground and “wealth” creator. As written in a 2021 article – the cryptomarket will eventually have to succumb to newer innovative applications. If it is not innovation …
ChatGPT – free content
Asking the AI about itself seemed to be a bit spotty. Trying to get its own launch day data proved to be quite difficult. The AI could not “remember” its own inauguration time. It was even a bid confused about the dates. At the end of my search on ChatGPT I ended up with two dates that are kind of significant for the launch of this language / speech AI. One is the day the first language module was released (which has an exact time), the other is the actual release of ChatGPT at the end of the year 2022. The two charts certainly differ since one, as I understand, is more a language module, which later was embedded into the later AI-bot, which is now freely accessible through the internet. I’d like to start with the historically first event – the chart of the launch of the language module…