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When Max asked ChatGPT to help him out with the sprinkler at the park, the model wasn’t just spewing text. The photograph of the plumbing was compressed, along with Max’s prompt, into a vector that captured its most important features. That vector served as an address for calling up nearby words and concepts. Those ideas, in turn, called up others as the model built up a sense of the situation. It composed its response with those ideas “in mind.”
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking | the New Yorker
James Somers
Hatherley points out that “Now and Then” sounds like a generative model’s approximation of the Beatles, and it’s hard to disagree, especially since it would be fitting if the comparison could help each discredit the other. But mostly it is just easy, for me at least, to make a self-satisfied show of contempt for it, which doesn’t discredit anything but myself. It wants to be forgettable, so we forget about the ongoing conditions that made it possible too.
The Beatles Did Not Take Place
Rob Horning
By then, the forces of forgetting were already roaring back—to slam that door, and to shroud our countries in innocence and righteousness once again. “There is a resistance to memory inside memory itself,”23 writes the historian of psychoanalysis Jacqueline Rose.
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