[pitched]

It’s an interesting thought that our LLMs are Professor Oldman from “Man from Earth”, rather than someone more of this age. It probably isn’t actually true because training would reinforce more recent data but an interesting thought that these things are actually impossibly _ancient_.

[retrac]

I've encountered several times an argument that goes something like this: corporations and other large economic or political institutions are the "original" AI agent -- slow and human-mediated, but with the same quality of non-human intellect and potential to impact the world through its non-human decision-making. It seems to me the essence, whatever it is philosophically speaking that we seem to "concentrate" into an AI model, may have first been distilled to a limited extent, when writing was invented.