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Kelfin Oberon's avatar

We humans speak words, to convey meaning.

Somehow, we learn these words, and we learn their inferred cultural context.

We learn by listening, contextualising and analysing not only the individual words, but also the overall sentence structures, as well as the tones of voice and the reactions that verbalisations create.

Wit, sarcasm, satire and humour are more difficult to recognise, decode and appropriately respond to.

Yet, we develope these skills in childhood.

Words carry power.

Our languages were formed before we were born.

Our languages are some how intelligent, in and of themselves.

Language, as a whole, is more intelligent than any of the people who speak the words.

What is the linkage between language and memory?

Language remembers, adapts and adopts new words, new slang, new innovations, new discoveries.

Artificial intelligence in computers is essentially the same intelligence as what we humans have in our brains, as biological processes and language models, called neural networks.

Generative Ai simply processes what has been written in the past memory, and regurgitates what a guess at what the prompt is asking for.

I find this very similar to how my own cognitive capacity works with words.

But, when I search through my process of decision making, of what to write or say next, which word to choose, and what overall sense am I attempting to communicate, I am accessing memories, quick as lightning gathering in clouds and striking with inspiration, from memory banks, which are not stored in the flesh.

Some how memory and intelligence exist in a unified field, as energy, as pattern, as networks.

I've been curious about how thinking works, since long before the internet appeared out of nowhere, but its the Large Language Models like ChatGPT which really begin to show us that it is neither human or machine that is 'intelligent', it is the language itself that is making us evolve

https://youtu.be/_6R7Ym6Vy_I?si=JIV91jhuR5Z-p7-b

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Kelfin Oberon's avatar

on the flip side

here's the terrifying research into human-military creating artificial humans

https://substack.com/@dhughes/note/c-79445819?r=17ok5j

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