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Though I could not have put it into words then, the sense had come to me that hunting as I knew it – the eagerness to kill something I did not need to eat – was an artificial relation to the place, when what I was beginning to need, just as inarticulately then, was a relation that would be necessary and meaningful.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
The most obvious example is AlphaGo playing against itself. In the original version of the program, developed by Google Deep Mind, the AI program was trained on a data set including thousands of previously played matches. This was enough to go toe-to-toe with the leading human Go player, Lee Sedol. However, the real breakthrough came with AlphaGo playing games not against human players—but against itself. It was then able to play a functionally infinite number of games, turning the cultural ratchet on its own ideas.
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Before you continue, pause and consider: How would *you* prove you're not a language model generating predictive text? What special human tricks can you do that a language model can't?
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Maggie Appleton
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