Posts tagged #AI

Humanity was on a path toward "The Era of Perfect History"—an era where every event is backed by irrefutable video evidence. But the rise of AI-generated content has shattered the reliability of photographic proof, replacing the promise of absolute truth with a landscape of indistinguishable fakes and manufactured reality.

"Classic" or artisanal programming forces people to inject precision into vague problem statements because the crafting of software demands it. The false precision thus injected often becomes part of the machine description, and thus difficult to extract. Vibe coding is an opportunity to maintain separation of our vague problem understanding and allow AI to fill in the gaps to construct an equally precision solution as before. But now we can prevent false precision from contaminating the problem statement.

Once a technical term and then a philosophy, the User Agent has gradually lost its allegiance to the user. The coming AI-powered super-user-agents are even more detached from their role as a loyal ambassador. Instead it's far more likely that those user-agents will manipulate users on behalf of their benefactors, and it will be difficult if not impossible to tell what they are doing.

The map is not the territory. A picture of a flame is not a flame. A description of a neural network is not a brain. A simulation of thought is not a consciousness.

Language builds meaning by combining your inner experiences.

A very gentle introduction to how large language models almost capture human experience through language.