[FRIAM] AI art

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Exactly. The (relatively) successful AIs also have 2 components to their lineage: structural and tuning. The self-attending transformer architecture is analogous to either our anatomy or the ontogeny of the anatomy from DNA - structural lineage. I'd argue it's more like the former. The analogy to cultural descent is more difficult to iron out. But we can imagine something like LoRA, where some of the weights are more stable than others during any given training period ... like trying to unlearn idiom or speak with a different accent might be more difficult than learning new facts or "theorems". Some of the weights are subject to more frequent tuning than others. Etc.

All we need to do is reverse engineer a DNA-like grammar from which to grow different architectures and we have something akin to biological evolution. Then develop a persistent MMO world allowing inter-player stigmergy and we have something akin to cultur[e|al evolution].

On 6/24/24 11:55, Barry MacKichan wrote:
> Our brains start off prewired to a significant if poorly understood degree. And then we learn from the full range of human experience in all its serendipitous contingency. We learn from the feel of an embrace and taste of ice cream, from battle wounds and wedding ceremonies and athletic defeats, from bee stings and dog licks, from watching sunsets and riding roller coasters and reading Keats aloud and listening to Mozart alone. Trying to train a computer about the meaning of love or grief is like trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll.
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> “And not just from all these life experiences of our own but from the experiences of all our cultural ancestors. Our teachers—all those from whom we have learned, and those departed souls who taught our teachers—have shaped all those experiences into a structure of life, a system of values and ideals, a way in which we see and interpret the world.”

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