What is appropriate is the way we
cannot sense the world. You will be amazed how little of the world we can
sense. It is so ridiculously limited that much of the world bypass us. Even an
insect can sense vibrant colors we are blind to. Our senses are so limited
compared to other species that it can be utterly embarrassing. While we totter
in the dark the elegant bat has dexterously approximated the reality in
wonderous ways. Not only are our senses limited to deal with near reality but
is woefully inadequate to time space vastness of universe. We are but enveloped
in sliver of reality that much of the world is beyond our grasp. It is therefore remarkable
that we are aware of this limitation. This awareness is very much consciousness
of the universe attempting to understand itself. Human brain is a remarkable
conception that has worked to overcome limitations of senses and has indeed the
capacity to surpass all life form in all possibilities of senses.
All that we understand we have
codified it in writing. There is however much to the world that even the best writers
find inadequate to express. Language many times fail to encapsulate the
reality. What is clear though is that language cannot be dismissed. It is very
much a substantial repository of collective human experience. What is remarkable
about generative AI is the capacity to sense connections hitherto impossible. What
really riveted me to the possibilities of AI (while I was reading Eric Schmidt co-authored
The Age of AI during pandemic) was the discovery of antibiotic Halicin, the
properties of molecules that AI could ‘sense’ that we still cannot decipher. This
was tremendous. Hence there is much in emergent understanding of language that
can be deeper and startling, and I have experienced it. LLM therefore cannot be
dismissed. It will bring emergent understanding of collective experience. With multimodal
input this will get sophisticated and has the potential to approximate much of
the reality in a superior way than humans could. This then will add to the
complexity. The emergent possibility is stupendous. Scaling will peak, and what
will be valued is efficient complexity emulating billions of years of life's struggle
to approximate living. A tree doesn’t keep growing, it approximates the reality
of existence in profound prescience of life. This prescience has significant element
that is not computable. There seems to be quantum entanglement at work or something
much subtler that life has tapped. Multimodal models will no doubt produce
superior AI -bigger computable world and emergent complexity, and will surpass
human in many ways, but will have to face the quantum limitation. There is a crazy
world that is tangoing inside us that can be speculated to have a role in this
awareness -it seems inconceivable otherwise -there has to be incomputable crazy
element! That is producing this reality. Very soon we may even have capacity to
replicate this carbon form into silicon. Hopefully my molecules will hold on to
for that many years to witness this amazing leap of human imagination!
