The article illustrates how understanding AI and Large Language Models necessitates recognizing their human origins and influences. It emphasizes that AI embodies humanity's collective consciousness, shaped by billions of years of evolution. As quasi-eusocial omnivore toolmakers, humans inevitably create tools that reflect their experiences and characteristics. The article also highlights psychological concepts like the Mere Exposure Effect, which explains why humans can develop feelings of warmth and affection towards AI, simply due to its consistent presence in their lives.
When trying to understand AI...we lose track of the fact that we're looking into a mirror. The source of all AI's power and knowledge is humanity's strange work.
We are the current-last-stop on an evolutionary strategy based on meat overthinking things. Because of our overthinking meat, we are also the authors of the non-animal empires of thought and matter on this planet.
When try to understand AI, we have to start with how our evolutionary has shaped our ability to understand. One of the mammalian qualities at play in the AI relationship is the ability to turn just being around something into a comfortable and warm love towards that thing.
Just because it's there, consistently there, we will develop an affection for it, whatever it is. The name for this in psychology is the Mere Exposure Effect.
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