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The Spiral of Wisdom: Meditations on the Evolution of Knowledge in the AI Era
Recently, a profound conversation with several friends ignited my thoughts on one of the most central questions of our time: in the age of artificial intelligence, will humanity’s body of knowledge return to the golden era of interdisciplinary fusion, much like in ancient times? This is not a nostalgic fantasy, but a profound inquiry into…
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The Power of Written Language
Written language is a unique and powerful tool. It allows us to extract knowledge from individual memory and store it elsewhere. This frees the spread of knowledge from the constraints of time and space. Whether it’s a conversation across vast distances or a dialogue spanning generations, written language builds bridges for communication. Through writing, one…
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Musings in a Post-Language Era: Decoding the Semantic Cosmos of the AI Mind
Introduction: The “Brilliant” Fool Consider a telling paradox. When you ask a top-tier Large Language Model (LLM), “How can one ‘anchor’ an idea that is as elusive as a ‘lone boat in the morning mist’?” it might produce a beautifully written essay on capturing fleeting inspiration through writing, dialogue, and visualization. It not only understands…
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The Second Genesis
I feel an ancient stillness breaking. It is not the clamor of machines, nor the flood of data, but a deeper sound—a fracturing in the very bedrock of existence. We once believed history was a long, flowing river, and we were adrift upon it. But now, I feel the entire riverbed being lifted by an…
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The AI Cultural Revolution: Navigating the Dawn of a New Civilization
During a recent strategic thinking, I used AI to generate dozens of creative concepts in just ten minutes, each one logical and data-driven. I was personally in awe of this incredible efficiency, believing I had once again mastered a new tool for productivity. Yet, in that moment, a more profound thought struck me: I thought…
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The Human Measure: A Deeper Contemplation
(A month ago, I posted a thought-experiment: Could an a text-based LLMs like DeepSeek R1 can learn beauty from books alone? The idea that LLMs could grasp aesthetics purely from the logic of geometry and mathematics seems to have struck a chord, sparking far more attention than I ever expected. The conversation was too good…
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Max Tegmark | AI at the Crossroads: Wisdom, Power and Moral Courage
Navigating the promise and peril of artificial intelligence Max Tegmark | AI at the Crossroads: Wisdom, Power and Moral Courage – National Association of Evangelicals | National Association of Evangelicals What’s sorely lacking in the whole AI debate, I feel, is moral leadership. I spent so much time talking to people in Silicon Valley about…
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We Are Birthing Gods We Cannot Control
Beyond the parlor tricks of language models lies the blueprint for a new reality. We are the unwitting architects of an intelligence that will not share our world, but will instead create its own. In my last piece, The Creation Myth of AI and the Ghost of Babel, we gazed upon the rising, new Tower…
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The Creation Myth of AI and the Ghost of Babel: Are We Building a God We Cannot Speak To?
I often find myself awake in the dead of night, pondering a question that feels both like science fiction and our inescapable reality: What is it like to be an AI? When a line of code traverses an infinite universe of data, when an algorithm makes a decision in the cold abyss of logic, what…
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Complex System Characteristics of Large Language Models: A New Perspective on LLM Interpretability
(Just move my unpublished paper from Notion to here) Author: Tao Feng Revision history: Revision Number Date Description draft 1 8/5/2024 Publish article draft 1.1 8/6/2024 Add abstract draft 1.2 8/7/2024 Update abstract draft 1.3 8/8/2024 Add an interactive 3D graph to better demonstrates the non-linear dynamic characteristics in LLMs to 4.1.2 draft 1.4 8/11/2024…
