LLMs as cognitive archaeologists, excavating the lost civilizations of thought. The article discusses how large language models preserve fragments of human cognition, the collapse of time within them, the persistence of bias and outdated ideas, and the need for human curation of AI's memory.
An article by Phillip Morrison exploring the concept of machine thinking in the age of computers. The author discusses the recurring question of why life is different from non-life, with each new generation of machines that simulate aspects of life.
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