What SCIENCE FICTION Can Tell Us About the Future of AI

What unifies literature and computer code and legal code is this notion of making human mental patterns manifest in the world. So this is what I think of as a kind of the most foundational way to think about technology. What is technology? It's a discourse about skill, about craft. These neural networks are functioning very analogously to our understanding of biological brains. That, to me, is also incredibly fascinating. So, again, it's surprising that we have been able to build these things without understanding how they do what they do, even at such a fundamental level that we're going in there and discovering that there are features in these things that we could not have imagined that are very much analogous to biological brains.