Comment by perching_aix
Comment by perching_aix 14 hours ago
Sure, but intent is a very fickle thing.
Consider zero and single click deployments in IT operations. With single click deployments, you need to have everything automated, but the go sign is still given by a human. With zero click, you'll have a deployment policy instead - the human decision is now out of the critical path completely, and only plays part during the authoring and later editing of said policy. And you can also then generate those policies, and so on.
Same can be applied to AI. You can have canned prompts that you keep refining to encode your intent and preferences, then you just use them with a single click. But you can also build a harness that generates prompts and continuously monitors trends and the world as a whole for any kind of arbitrary criteria (potentially of its own random or even shifting choice), and then follows that: a reward policy. And then like with regular IT, you can keep layering onto that.
Because of this, I don't think that intent is the point of differentiation necessarily, but the experience and shared understanding of human intent. That people have varying individual, arbitrary preferences, and are going through life of arbitrary and endless differences, and then source from those to then create. Indeed, this is never going to be replicated, exactly because of what I said: this is humans being human, and that giving them a unique, inalienable position by definition.
It's like if instead of planes we called aircraft "mechanical birds" and dunked on them for not flying by flapping their wings, despite their more than a century long history and claims of "flying". But just like I think planes do actually fly, I do also think that these models produce art. [0]