An inspiring piece, sir. So many false starts, wrong turns, and squandered chances in my lifetime. Look forward to the next era, hoping that we can seize the hour, "nothing personal, just business".
Wonderful thoughts, thank you. I hope this US renaissance spreads to Europe. We have a much harder core of totalitarian politicians here. Let's see how Germany goes in a couple of months.
"The issue with AI is its limited data from which to learn... "
I was decidedly agnostic about whether the long term utility of AI would outweigh it's social and capital costs. Up until about 2 months ago. Then I came across something that caused me to do a 180.
It is true that the cheap, readily-available feedstock for training LLMs that comes from the open sewers of the internet will become scarce as the well-capitalized AI Walmarts vacuum up everything they can, as quickly as they can. It turns out however that there exists whole guilds of AI "craftsmen" who are scouring every corner of the media world 24/7 for exquisite gems of human knowledge, which they then use to train their own custom built LLMs, which are ultimately intended to be interacted with roughly on the level of your own personal ubermensch.
Oral histories, long forgotten musical performances, television ads for luxury cars from the 50s, corny 80s TV shows, ancient Greece, Gothic cathedrals... We're talking about taking the most luminous aspects of human civilization, all that is known about history and prehistory, plus everything that has been discovered via mankind's exploration of the natural world, and using it to train the ultimate extension of our own minds. I know it sounds crazy...
Give this guy a follow and check out what he's working on. It fits in with "pipe dreams":
It seems almost like a prosthetic, aesthetic, memory-enhancing tool to treat our personal and collective cultural amnesia.
Aesthetics are one of the hardest things to argue against. A grass roots movement to use cutting edge technology to ressurect beauty as one of the guideposts of a healthy society...? Bilderbergers are lying awake at night in cold sweats.
Definitely some pipe dreams in that piece. Pretty optimistic about a soon to be sentenced felon who can't unite his own party and is being heavily influenced by the space nazi.
Acceptance is the key. Apropos at our new beginning to give Hope a Chance, since Faith is a bit out of reach here. 'If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able to bridle the whole body.' For me, that piece was one of the grimmest things I've read in years, but it went down like Haagen Daas and I appreciate it. Thank you, however, for the epistle from planet earth, which made me smile.
An inspiring piece, sir. So many false starts, wrong turns, and squandered chances in my lifetime. Look forward to the next era, hoping that we can seize the hour, "nothing personal, just business".
Keep pounding david.
What Jim said: sign me up!
An inspiring way to end the week and appreciate the mention, JJ. Have a great weekend, all.
Derek
Wonderful thoughts, thank you. I hope this US renaissance spreads to Europe. We have a much harder core of totalitarian politicians here. Let's see how Germany goes in a couple of months.
"The issue with AI is its limited data from which to learn... "
I was decidedly agnostic about whether the long term utility of AI would outweigh it's social and capital costs. Up until about 2 months ago. Then I came across something that caused me to do a 180.
It is true that the cheap, readily-available feedstock for training LLMs that comes from the open sewers of the internet will become scarce as the well-capitalized AI Walmarts vacuum up everything they can, as quickly as they can. It turns out however that there exists whole guilds of AI "craftsmen" who are scouring every corner of the media world 24/7 for exquisite gems of human knowledge, which they then use to train their own custom built LLMs, which are ultimately intended to be interacted with roughly on the level of your own personal ubermensch.
Oral histories, long forgotten musical performances, television ads for luxury cars from the 50s, corny 80s TV shows, ancient Greece, Gothic cathedrals... We're talking about taking the most luminous aspects of human civilization, all that is known about history and prehistory, plus everything that has been discovered via mankind's exploration of the natural world, and using it to train the ultimate extension of our own minds. I know it sounds crazy...
Give this guy a follow and check out what he's working on. It fits in with "pipe dreams":
https://x.com/search?q=from%3ABrianRoemmele%20%20a%20different%20timeline&src=typed_query
AI meets the time machine.
It seems almost like a prosthetic, aesthetic, memory-enhancing tool to treat our personal and collective cultural amnesia.
Aesthetics are one of the hardest things to argue against. A grass roots movement to use cutting edge technology to ressurect beauty as one of the guideposts of a healthy society...? Bilderbergers are lying awake at night in cold sweats.
Best wishes for the New Year. A time to seek the best we can hope for.
Great piece, JJ
Freedom is contagious, Carlo.
Sign me up…
Definitely some pipe dreams in that piece. Pretty optimistic about a soon to be sentenced felon who can't unite his own party and is being heavily influenced by the space nazi.
Acceptance is the key. Apropos at our new beginning to give Hope a Chance, since Faith is a bit out of reach here. 'If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able to bridle the whole body.' For me, that piece was one of the grimmest things I've read in years, but it went down like Haagen Daas and I appreciate it. Thank you, however, for the epistle from planet earth, which made me smile.
Peace is the key…