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it would be maybe interesting to know how was Lem thinking about the actual algorithmic process the machine uses while writing this: - purely symbolic with myr
by r618 3y ago
it would be maybe interesting to know how was Lem thinking about the actual algorithmic process the machine uses while writing this:
- purely symbolic with myriads of symbolic (if-else) clauses similar to expert systems, or
- sub symbolical ANN networks similar to current LLMs
i suspect it was the former in which case that he actually arrived at description of current large NNs is really striking I think
- ajuc 3y agoDunno about this fragment, but in general in 60s he usually wrote about AI as "cybernetic electronic brain" or "cybernetic black boxes". Cybernetic in the old sense - not the cyberpunk implants, but the analog devices with feedback loops. He wrote A LOT about this and explored various consequences, including the simulation argument which he presented in 1960 as a short story "Strange chests of professor Corcoran" - https://przekroj.org/sztuka-opowiesci/dziwne-skrzynie-profesora-corcorana/ https://przekroj.org/sztuka-opowiesci/dziwne-skrzynie-profes... here's the Polish version).
- ana_winters 3y ago[dead]
- crucialfelix 3y agoIn Summa Technologiae he discusses statistical learning and matrices.
- r618 3y agothat's really awesome , he's had extraordinary intuition with this