Sometimes things come together in my head and Pazza, its a new thought, I can sense it.. often I forget it, life gets in the way, sometimes my phone is in my hand and I'll quickly record it. This time, I'm at my PC, so I'll spit it out here first in the universe.
What if we're in '42' but not the way we thought it.
When the ultimate computer (in Hitch hikers guide to the universe) was asked the great question, what's the meaning of life, it thought for several thousand years and came up with the answer '42', and because the beings that asked the question didn't understand (I mean, c'mon its pretty obvious right) they asked the computer for an explanation, it replied, it can't give a meaningful answer because the questions was not meaningful. So, they asked, what's the question?
The computer claims it can't answer it, its too complex, but it can help build the next computer that CAN. So they build this huge "computer", spoilers, its earth, and humans are the 'chips'
So, I'm watching some kid genius, hears a song once, and then breaks it apart and re-writes it, and while I'm doing that, I'm using AI to build out some lists for work, and also some images for my book, and I get this idea..
What if WE were meant to be the AI.
What if.. each human, was meant to be a 'token' in an AI engine, building up to an eventual actual 'I' (though, to an outsider, we would be artificial). We come together, randomly, and pop out a new token, which learns some things, advances human knowledge a microstep, and then it, being more superior, pops out the next token to advance the knowledge set again.
We are AI tokens, to US we are slow. but to some external super computer that we are all a simulation inside of, WE, our lives, are mere blips, microseconds, to building up this new AI model.
This Kid, he's a super piano player, he's able to do for music, what AI cannot, control it meaningfully.
AI right now can create 'random' music, and even check that it matches 95% what we CALL music, but its random, it can't repeat itself for the same song, and change it ever so slightly (you can call up a new AI that its job is to do that, but thats not the original AI that made it)
You can ask the AI to make a picture of a nice fresh red apple, and then you can ask to take a bite out of it.. but the computer won't access that original apple and 'take a bite' it will re-imagine a brand new apple and the bite of that apple, it might be 90% the same apple, but the human eye can spot the 10% difference and know, its not the same apple.
So, now that we've invented the answer to the original purpose to us being here, will it all end? if AGI nails actual AI, will our program shut down?,
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