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> a large system where the logic just makes itself up as it goes. What you describe is known as a “bureaucracy”, and indeed, it’s one of the seven levels of he
by cmontella 4y ago
> a large system where the logic just makes itself up as it goes.
What you describe is known as a “bureaucracy”, and indeed, it’s one of the seven levels of hell, and a primary weapon of vogons, next to poetry. That we aspire to put these in our computers, I agree, is unfathomable.
- abc_lisper 4y agoGreat analogy!!
- jcadam 4y agoAre we the Vogons?
- em-bee 4y agoDouglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- evrydayhustling 4y agoAlways were.
- ProllyInfamous 4y agoSee also: Star Trek's Ferengi . If you are unfamiliar with Star Trek's "cosmoverse," just go to http://perplexity.AI http://perplexity.AI , and ask it to explain anything from that storyline, including the Ferengi, who existed solely to allow the writers of Star Trek to "mock" some of human's more ridiculous notions of "fair" and "what is." It be happenin' The world isn't fair, and GPT-like technologies will and are already making sweeping existential questions for what it is to even be creative — this is such a rare "human" attribute as to be laughable that only a human could be capable of generative, useful content. True creativity is unhuman, even for those human's among us that think so highly of ourselves. "Good artists copy, great artists steal." —P.Picasso
- bccdee 4y agoI think the questions raised about creativity by generative neural nets have pretty simple answers. Creativity requires a certain amount of thought put into it: A writer doesn't just mash other pieces of writing together into their own work—they think about how they want the audience to react and what kinds of things they could do to create those reactions. An LLM doesn't have a model of an audience, nor can it even account for the fact that its work creates reactions in any way. Instead, it just blindly reproduces the patterns evident in the material it's trained on. An LLM isn't any more creative than a Markov generator is; it just produces higher-quality output.
- ProllyInfamous 4y agoI have come to the realization that even among flesh, "creativity" is so rarely distributed as to be `inhuman`, IMHO.