I like how Kevin Kelly brings together the ideas about what could be next. That’s always been his thing, hasn’t it? He is probably on to something here and it’s ok to be vague, I think. I don’t mind at all whether it’s all 100% technically correct.
Here are the bits I enjoyed:
LLMs (or GenAI, in general) as (the most?) efficient compression machines.
Creative or new ideas are the gaps or white space of the latent space. They already exist but become harder and harder for humans to find. It’s the perfect job for computers, therefore.
The concept of “true” is defined in the latent space (or compression) itself.
Here are the bits I enjoyed:
LLMs (or GenAI, in general) as (the most?) efficient compression machines.
Creative or new ideas are the gaps or white space of the latent space. They already exist but become harder and harder for humans to find. It’s the perfect job for computers, therefore.
The concept of “true” is defined in the latent space (or compression) itself.