What is the point of making intelligent agents?

The problem for AI is that creative work is not predictable. It is not about statistical likelihood or simply mashing up the familiar—it is about leaps in logic and counterintuitive juxtapositions. It is about the unique experience of the individual, and seeking to do what has never been done before. It is about the least predictable next word or p

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What’s ChatGPT really bad at? Being counterintuitive and surprising us. Large language models (LLMs) are trained on the mass output of humanity to optimize for what is expected. As a result, ChatGPT routinely let’s us down when it comes to getting something we didn’t expect. If you start paying attention to the music, books, movies, speeches, essay... See more

The tools will no doubt get better at pulling relevant quotes. But I’m less confident they’ll ever solve the perennial mysteries of taste and discernment. Many great artists have put out what they thought was their best work, only to see it flop. And vice versa—what they thought was average ended up going viral. Every time you release a work of art

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