"As they trawl the web for new data to train their next models on — an increasingly challenging task — they’re likely to ingest some of their own A.I.-generated content, creating an unintentional feedback loop in which what was once the output from one A.I. becomes the input for another.
In the long run, this cycle may pose a threat to A.I. itself. Research has shown that when generative A.I. is trained on a lot of its own output, it can get a lot worse."
Your essay is thoughtful and thought provoking, thank you!
I like the image of a mirror with” no smell, no sound no texture “, image , as a screen , that would deserved more comments.
Beyond the image, is the world of the shadow that you rightly describe at the end of your writings :”we need to be able to work through our ideas, discomforts, j’éditai and fears together”. From two dimensions, the shadow brings a third one, the human one.
Thank you for this essay, Felix! Did you see the recent NYTimes article about degenerative AI? It highlights the loss of accuracy in data and images and words as AI develops its own feedback loop for learning: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/26/upshot/ai-synthetic-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
"As they trawl the web for new data to train their next models on — an increasingly challenging task — they’re likely to ingest some of their own A.I.-generated content, creating an unintentional feedback loop in which what was once the output from one A.I. becomes the input for another.
In the long run, this cycle may pose a threat to A.I. itself. Research has shown that when generative A.I. is trained on a lot of its own output, it can get a lot worse."
Your essay is thoughtful and thought provoking, thank you!
I like the image of a mirror with” no smell, no sound no texture “, image , as a screen , that would deserved more comments.
Beyond the image, is the world of the shadow that you rightly describe at the end of your writings :”we need to be able to work through our ideas, discomforts, j’éditai and fears together”. From two dimensions, the shadow brings a third one, the human one.
Thank you for this Felix.
An ‘existential’ risk to humanity need not involve extinction. Some existential risks involve human survival in an inhumane form.”
This one resonated with me very much
Watch and watch again the movie Artificial Intelligence from Spielberg, 2001. What a visionary