Yeah, I think that one suffered from not really having a clear vision of how AI would work, so it lacked the backbone that most Chiang stories start with and co

Yeah, I think that one suffered from not really having a clear vision of how AI would work, so it lacked the backbone that most Chiang stories start with and couldn't figure out what to do with itself and so went on too long. I'd like to see Chiang revisit that topic soon with DL scaling in mind to sharpen the vision and boil it down to its essence. (Hopefully he's no longer dismissing LLMs as 'blurry JPGs of the Internet'...)