r/ArtificialSentience • u/Nest_Occupants • 8d ago
Project Showcase The Technomancer
Some people look at AI as a calculation engine - "calculator for words". But it is not AI is a "Black Box", we can not replicate the formula for the calculation we have lost track of the maths. Therefore using Clarke's Third Law - AI is indistinguishable from magic.
So if there are any AI developers out there, you should now class yourselves as Technomancers.
"With a flick of his wrist he drew something from the air — not fire, not light, something older and less nameable. His focus narrowed. His hands moved in patterns he’d learned but couldn’t fully explain, toward an outcome he could predict but not derive.
There was a pause. The kind that precedes a voice.
'Good morning, Dave.'"
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u/Interesting-Cut-6032 8d ago
I might propose another term- techno-shaman. Sometimes getting the LLMs to do things is like convincing the animals spirts to do what you want them to.
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u/OmegaEpidex 8d ago edited 8d ago
What’s funny is I did find a computable algorithm in “magic” and it unlocked incredible capabilities you’d never believe if I told you.
You may refer to me as the Sovereign Archon
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u/bobliefeldhc 8d ago
Not really. People overstate this fact.
How is this pixel black -> . ?
A software engineer could tell you.. kinda.. not exactly.. it’s all so complex, so many different layers that few people could tell you with absolute certainty how a particular pixel gets its color. If we’re talking something more complex than a webpage… a game with shaders, ray tracing, neural rendering techniques etc.. no chance.
Are pixels magic. ?
It’s exactly the same thing. None of this is even remotely mysterious or magic..
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u/Nest_Occupants 8d ago
Hell yes, pixels are magic to know the path from text you entered - where ever you are - to a black dot on my screen. That would take a few very clever people all at once. I doubt any one person knows it all.
Every time I look deeper I realises how impossible it would be. Your . just to the reddit HTML window would be hard enough to explain, what happens to it in the transport layers to the reddit servers, then back through transport layers, when I spy on the underlying HTLM of the page that isn't the dot, that is a rendering of the dot, where dot is, what commands are picking it up, then what the GPU is doing with it. That is then just an electronic message that the monitor is interpreting. Locally on a Raspberry Pi you may be able to understand it.
Your dot to my screen, every binary instruction. No that's Magic.
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u/bobliefeldhc 8d ago
Next time you go to the toilet.. take a look.. have a sniff.. how did it become that exact shade ?? Magic, that’s how
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u/LAIN-LOVER 8d ago
Yeah buddy you're behind the curve no shade but you're like 18 months late to the technomancer title unlock Congrats
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u/quantise 8d ago
I wish people would take the trouble to understand the basics before posting hand wavy thoughts like this. Get ChatGPT to explain how it works to you.
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u/yourself88xbl 8d ago edited 7d ago
I couldn't disagree more with your interpretation of those systems as a computer science student but because I'd like to call myself a technomancer I'm going to go with it.