Often hammered point: AI means Artificial Imagination, not Artificial Intelligence. Altman knows what he’s doing. The misleading name causes the opposition to waste their ammunition on proving AI doesn’t work like a computer. OF COURSE IT DOESN’T. It’s meant to work like a dream.
A couple dreams this week made me think of another way AI is like dreams. My dream scripter doesn’t have access to recently acquired memories. Details are generally a few years old. The car I drive is usually the Squareback that I owned in the 70s and 80s. The location is usually Enid, where I lived in the 70s. When it’s in Spokane, it’s along the bus routes that I used more than ten years ago.
This morning’s dream was a typical bureaucratic frustration scene. I was trying to explain something about the “virus” to a bored receptionist, and I couldn’t find the name. “You know, it was that stuff that caused all the shutdowns in some year … 2020? 2021? Recently!”
Altman works the same way. The bots sample older text and art and blogs, staying more than two years behind the current date.
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