"The shape of things only becomes legible at a distance. Distance can also be spatial rather than temporal. In Peru, large ground drawings-now known as the Nazca Lines-were used as markers or signals on the landscape. From ground level, they are difficult to interpret. Their meaning only becomes clear when viewed from above, where the full shapes can be seen at once."
"I think, however, that we must try to give a clearer shape to the current manifestation of AI (chatbots, large language models, etc.). We are the earliest historians of this weird, elusive technology, and as such, it's our duty to begin a conversation that's likely to take decades (or centuries, if we remain alive by then) to be fully fleshed out, once spatial and temporal distance reveal what we're looking at."
Full understanding often requires distance, whether temporal or spatial. Large ground drawings like the Nazca Lines reveal clear shapes only when seen from above, illustrating how perspective transforms legibility. AI spans decades, yet recent milestones such as AlexNet, the transformer paper, and ChatGPT make current deep learning advances feel comparatively young. Contemporary AI manifestations—chatbots and large language models—remain morphing, but already exert tangible effects across research, development, and deployment. Overlapping pipeline stages mean multiple impacts occur simultaneously, so early, sustained conversations and frameworks are necessary to guide long-term adaptation and understanding.
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