| > we have yet to see any AI systems capable of exhibiting intelligence beyond stylistic mimicry or forming generalized knowledge about concepts from large data sets. I've said this long before useful LLMs, but I don't think we've observed this in humans, either. Human creativity can be put into two very similar categories: 1) Metaphor; the arbitrary application of the dynamics of one thing to another. "What if information is like water?" "What if the economy is like the human body?" "That woman is like a bird." 2) Bad copies. When you see someone's output and try to imitate it, but have to speculate about the creative and mechanical process that resulted in that output. You sometimes guess right and sometimes wrong, but the output is similar. Then you vary the parameters in order to create a new example, but since your process was different, with different parameters and different interactions, you create something different than the person you copied would have created. 1+2) both randomly often create emergent effects that are then copied by others, sometimes badly. This is how Japanese metal can be the result of Black Americans copying songs from musicals and English/Irish drinking songs, British people copying the blues from Black Americans, Americans copying British Invasion music and NWOBHM, and then Japanese people copying American metal. |