Posts tagged #AI

Once a technical term and then a philosophy, the User Agent has gradually lost its allegiance to the user. The coming AI powered super-user-agents are even more detached from their role as a loyal ambassador to the user. Instead it's far more likely that those user-agents will manipulate the user on behalf of its benefactors, and it will be diificult if not impossible to tell what they are doing.

The map is not the territory. A picture of a flame is not a flame. A description of a neural network is not a brain. A simulation of thought is not a consciousness.

Language builds meaning by combining your inner experiences.

A very gentle introduction to how large language models almost capture human experience through language.