Matt WolfeFutureTools.io · Founder of Future Tools | Host of Next Wave Podcast

The Closest Thing to Chatting with Our Collective Conscious

27 May 2024 · 1 min

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Short interview excerpt (YouTube) in which Matt Wolfe asks a speaker about a claim from the speaker's TED Talk: large language models, trained on massive corpora of published text by millions of people, function as a way to access or 'chat with' the sum of human consciousness. The exchange clarifies that models answer based on aggregated published writing and are therefore a filtered representation of collective human authorship.

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One of the, one of the things I want to ask you about was something you mentioned in your TED Talk that I found really fascinating. And you made a comment about how with AI we essentially have access to the sum of human consciousness or the ability to chat with the sum of human consciousness. And I'm paraphrasing, you probably said it way more eloquently than I did, but I want to kind of talk about that statement and what you meant by that.
Yeah, I mean, if you think about these massive models, they are trained on massive corpus of text written by millions of people. It's their words. And again, it's a, it's a filtered list of words because it's only stuff they publish. But when you ask a model a question, they're answering that based on the writing of millions of people. And so I think what I said was that it's probably the closest thing we have to chatting with our collective consciousness.