history of our conceptions of artificial and natural intelligence
The performance of highly advanced artificial intelligence models is constrained by the knowledge available to them.
Even if GPT-6 is smarter than you, if it doesn’t have access to the right information, it won’t be able to say anything truly interesting.
Application layer AI companies are not just UIs on top of a foundation model. Far from it. They have sophisticated cognitive architectures that typically include multiple foundation models with some sort of routing mechanism on top, vector and/or graph databases for RAG, guardrails to ensure compliance, and application logic that mimics the way a... See more
Use the tools if you must. But a better use of your extra energy — such as it is — is to live the gap between human and AI. Can an AI gather, synthesize, calculate, and even speculate faster than we can? Yes. Can it do all those things better than we can? Maybe. Can it be more interesting, unexpected, artful, or meaningful? Well that’s just a... See more