AI MADNESS. 😉 When I was a child and imagined that if I had the three proverbia

AI MADNESS. 😉
When I was a child and imagined that if I had the three proverbial wishes, that the first thing I’d wish for, was to know everything in every book in the library. (I’m a nerd. What can I say.)

Now, oddly enough, it turns out that we should run out of text to use to train AIs this year. In other words, they’ll know everything in the library. Not just the library. The entire planet’s libraries, databases, and collections. (Or at least the entire planet of curated information. God knows we don’t need to teach it the content of Hollywood gossip rags.)

And we should shortly see AIs that can search and contextualize video letting us use text to find just that moment or clip in videos.

I remember reading Adler’s work illustrating that there are really only about 1500 concepts. And that we can communicate effectively with as few as 300 words.

Any student of enough disciplines learns over his lifetime, that not only are plots regurgitated every generation, but the same ideas are regurgitated every generation. With precious few added in any generation. In this sense, the theory of gravity has been increasing in precision more so than being falsified. And this same principle applies to nearly everything in human experience over time.

In the course of my work, I came to understand that there is just one concept upon which the entire universe is constructed (evolved). And that there are about twenty principles derived from that explain all of human existence. … That knowledge was somehow humbling. We really are that simple.

One thing I know that we are going to learn, that will frustrate and please Nassim Taleb, is the amount of information necessary to make a connection, and how it increases with ‘distance’. And that will create a new unit of measurement that will tell us things we’ve wanted to know – but don’t understand that’s what we need to know to know them.

But will an AI discover those twenty principles as I have? Or what else might it discover if instead of a question and answer, it sought to ponder what questions HAD NOT BEEN, AND WERE NOT BEING ASKED?

Now that’s interesting.

Curt Doolittle
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