Then you’re getting into the infinite monkey theorem, and one important part is that for the random monkeys to create works of art like Shakespeare you also need a reviewer to determine when the output is interesting, in that case you are really shifting the burden of creativity onto the reviewer
Well the second machine on the left has 3 joysticks, so anything is possible…
I asked him if he found this appealing he said no because he wants less social media.
Well you can reach the end of the feed in lemmy, that’s a plus isn’t it?
Definitely agree that the inventors are often given too much focus rather than a gradual evolution of ideas and discoveries over time that a much wider number of people made significant contributions to.
There are big leaps in understanding at times that do deserve to be recognised, Newton, Euler and Einstein definitely fit with this.
There is a really good series about the evolution of science and technology from the 1980s called Connections, from the BBC. Brilliant show and well worth a watch, it shows how technology evolves through chance and circumstances in so many cases rather than someone seeing a problem to be solved and thinking of a clever solution
It will always be easy to extrapolate new things from existing things
I don’t think that’s the case at all. Recombining existing things is interpolation, creating new stuff that is both novel and also interesting or valuable, is a completely different task
What are your thoughts for using AI to colour in & do the tedious bits? So you plan out the structure of what you’re trying to do, work out the individual pieces and get the AI to do a bunch of the (well specified) leg work. I’ve found it fairly reliable like this, especially for things that involve looking up function parameters in unfamiliar APIs. But this does depend on a thorough look over what comes out as well. No doubt there’s still issues that can pop up but generally have found it to be useful overall
Not really, once you look at the startups like OpenAI they have enormous expenses that depend on constant debt and investment funding, and the cost and risk of sustaining that debt can easily reach a point where they struggle to get new investors to foot the bill.
The whole market is based on a belief in a huge pot of gold some time in the future, and it is driven by unfathomable amounts of debt to keep the machinery running towards that goal. Once the belief in the goal getting reached gets broken, the change in momentum breaks the whole system.
That includes the big players, huge amounts of their balance sheets, including claims of revenue, are circular trades between themselves. Even google claims revenue from asset price growth in their AI subsidiaries.
Once it shifts from investment to repaying bad debts the numbers will look completely different for all the big companies involved. We’re talking potentially bail outs basically across the board