12-30-2025, 07:21 AM
Perhaps apropos, just saw a YouTube™ video in which an apparently informed presenter described an AI beyond LLMs. This one seems to have, for lack of better words, a gestalt formed of its observations rather than a word-frequency table. As the presenter explained, this new sort of AI thinks to talk where LLMs talk to think.
That is, if I'm interpreting this correctly, the new machine works internally with its own thought processes and picture(s) of the world, then contrives to present them in language tokens; a LLM manipulates tokens (so does not really "think" at all). The new machine apparently is faster, more accurate, and takes considerably less resources in terms of memory and such. The presenter said it might be the key to human-form robots (LLMs are much too large and inaccurate to operate a butler, not to mention a careful cleaning-lady). We may be crossing a line from building-sized UNIVACS of early SciFi to holographic "Positronic" robot brains a la Asimov.
Considering we're already encountering the resource and logic problems of the UNIVACS with LLMs, one can but hope we'll avoid Asimov's Three Laws tangles.
As for poetry, the new machines might take an interest and be amenable to critique. Though music seems a more direct outlet...
That is, if I'm interpreting this correctly, the new machine works internally with its own thought processes and picture(s) of the world, then contrives to present them in language tokens; a LLM manipulates tokens (so does not really "think" at all). The new machine apparently is faster, more accurate, and takes considerably less resources in terms of memory and such. The presenter said it might be the key to human-form robots (LLMs are much too large and inaccurate to operate a butler, not to mention a careful cleaning-lady). We may be crossing a line from building-sized UNIVACS of early SciFi to holographic "Positronic" robot brains a la Asimov.
Considering we're already encountering the resource and logic problems of the UNIVACS with LLMs, one can but hope we'll avoid Asimov's Three Laws tangles.
As for poetry, the new machines might take an interest and be amenable to critique. Though music seems a more direct outlet...
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