Technology

It's like putting a million monkeys in a writers' room, but super charged on meth and consuming insane resources.

It sorta is.

A key way that human intelligence works is to break a problem down into smaller components that can be solved individually. This is in part due to the limited computational ability of the human brain; there's not enough there to tackle the complete problem.

However, there's no particular reason AI would need to be limited that way, and it often isn't. Expert Go players see this in AI for that game. The AI tends to make all sorts of moves early on that don't seem to be following the usual logic, and it's because it's laid out the complete game in its "head" and going directly for the goal. Go is basically impossible for humans to win against the best AIs at this point.

This is a different kind of intelligence than we're used to, but there's no reason to discount it as invalid.

See the paper Understanding Human Intelligence through Human Limitations

Except we can't build what we can't comprehend that also works.

The problem here is that people with power to direct funds are, more often than not, utterly ignorant in building anything.

I think where all this is generally directed is a society, like in Asimov's Foundation or Plato's Republic (with additional step), where people competent in building something are reduced to a small caste, most of them with local, not professional, competencies, like priests, and with a techno-religion centered on that "AI". This is a hierarchical structure very vulnerable to, well, that kind of powerful people.

The majority will work non-essential jobs (like in Heinlein's Door Into Summer), which do not give them any kind of power, the soldier caste will work the military, and the builder caste will work the technology, and the philosopher caste will be those powerful people. The difference with Plato is in having that first group of people which does not fit into any main caste. By Plato they would all be builder (worker) caste, but that would create a problem with the attempt to make it a religion and a hierarchical monopolized structure. The builder caste should be small.

You might see a whole lot of problems with that idea (which still seems to be attempted), that's because the people from whom it comes don't understand how civilization works and that instruments change the rules constantly, not just to the point they can understand.

That was a different technique, using simulated evolution in an FPGA.

An algorithm would create a series of random circuit designs, program the FPGA with them, then evaluate how well each one accomplished a task. It would then take the best design, create a series of random variations on it, and select the best one. Rinse and repeat until the circuit is really good at performing the task.

I don’t know about AI involvement but this story in general is very very old.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

Sounds like RF reflection used like a data capacitor or something.

Yeah, I've stumbled upon that one a while back too, probably. Was it also the one where the initial designs would refuse to work outside the room temperature 'til the ai was asked to take temps into account?

Flashback to the 1960s, Magic and More Magic

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html

I remember this too, it was years and years ago (I almost want to say 2010-2015). Can't find anything searching for it

So the wires did something

This has been going on in chess for a while as well. Computer can detect patterns that human cannot because it has a better memory and knowledge base.

Read the article, it's still 'dreaming' and spewing garbage, it's just that in some iterations it's gotten lucky. "Human oversight needed" they say. The AI has no idea what it's doing.

This is what most all ai is. Gpt models are a tiny subsect.

You want AI that makes chips that run AI faster and better?

You've fallen into its trap!

I want AI that takes a foreign language movie, and augments their face and mouth so it looks like they are speaking my language, and also changes their voice (not a voice over) to be in my language.

Idk, kinda the same, but instead of misinformation we get ICs that release a cloud of smoke in a shape of a cat when presented with specific pattern of inputs (or smth equally batshit crazy)

They are all of the same breed and it's an ongoing field of study. The megacorps have soiled the use of them but they are still extremely strong support tools for some things, like detecting cancer on xrays and stuff