2025-09-04 Thu
AI
- #Thought
- AI is a "plausibility engine" - it generates things that are "plausible." Many things that are plausibly described are correlated with reality or real truth, but not all of them, and not uniformly.
- A lot of people haven't figured out how to make this property of plausibility useful to them. They think they understand how to use an AI that's driven by a "truth engine," but they haven't yet taught themselves to find utility in an AI that's a "plausibility engine."
- Those who do learn to drive the plausibility-engine e-skateboard will go many places, some of which are much farther away than they could have visited with their own feet. Those who sit around complaining about how cool it would be if we had a flying "truth engine" e-skateboard will likely not get very far powered by AI - that's just not the AI we have right now.
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