[curo]

This makes me laugh. I started a sentence on facilitating partner networks and got a fairly good line that I might have read from a white paper.

Maybe one of the biggest upsides from AI will be highlighting how predictable our thoughts are. If you can use neural nets to create impressionist paintings, I'm sure we'll quickly get to the point where we can autocomplete our cleverest quips.

At the risk of sounding cynical, I think most conversations are comprised by the brain's autocomplete. Very little comes from a fresh place. Top voted comments on HN, Reddit, Twitter come in various familiar patterns. This comment right here even feels a bit stale as do a lot of my own tweets and musings.

The optimist angle is to think that after AI can populate these threads for us or guess at our conversations, we'll either (a) fall gradually into a contemplative silence or (b) up our game and only write/speak when we can clear the minimum thresholds of predictability.

I love chatting with my girlfriend. She says highly predictable things, but in an animated and lovely way. So as a third option, perhaps we'll (c) start focusing on the non-verbal expressions that are harder for AI to replicate. Something where its attempts to replicate would fall into the valley of the uncanny in its siege of our last stronghold: that highest point from which our mechanical brains are infused with life.

[saratv]

Thanks for trying and some profound thoughts around it!

Yes, we do learn from our surroundings and at an early stage in our lives. Nothing is totally novel.

However, the AI is intended to augment than replace and sometimes enhance our capabilities. Being predicable isn't such a bad thing after all!

Thanks again!

[curo]

For sure! To be clear, I was applauding your work. My criticisms were directed at human drivel. Impressive model.