It’s not Intelligence. Big data has been Intelligent (in the logical sense) for 70 years and gets smarter every day. The LLMs have proven to do a poor job at Intelligence, which makes the rationalists feel superior. Wrong measurement!
LLMs are excellent at imagining. Most of what they do is dreamlike, NOT intelligent.
Perfect example this morning. I’m trying to adjust to the change in medication ordered by the doctor to fix the atrocious allergic reaction. Not easy, but it has to be done.
A dream gave a new direction. In the dream I was part of a team going to Mars, of all damn things. Spaceflight isn’t one of my interests, so it’s not a reference to something I’ve been reading or thinking. The dream is telling me to treat this change as an adventure, not a threat.
The word ootsy was prominent. One team member was frustrating and someone else said “She makes me feel ootsy.” Later a door was hard to get through, and I thought “this feels ootsy”.
Google finds no references or definitions for ootsy, but its AI thingamajig said that ootsy isn’t a known word. If somebody uses it they might be referring to an uneasy or woozy feeling.
That’s what it meant in the dream.
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Since AI is Imagination, the writers who claim otherwise are fighting a losing battle.
You can’t compete by doing the same old thing. Muscles can’t compete with steam engines. Bookkeepers can’t compete with Hollerith. Stenographers can’t compete with speech recognition software.
Treat this as a spaceflight into unknown territory, finding new ways of expression that AI doesn’t match. Doctors beat Google by having their real hands and eyes directly on the patient. Perhaps artists can find a way to be equally personal and therapeutic. Write for one client at a time, in direct eye-to-eye contact. Does that sound disreputable, like astrologers or escort services? Too bad. Astrologers and escorts make good money.
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