Dis Connections

Today is June 8, which is apparently World Brain Tumour Day. A doctor thought I had one once, and told my partner to give him a call in the morning if I was still alive. Good morning computer.

Sean Bonner’s CONNECTIONS photographs.

Senga Negudi:

Venkatesh Rao on something I briefly considered some years ago, done, of course, more intelligently and in more depth:

Here is the thing: There is no good reason for the source and destination AIs to talk to each other in human language, compressed or otherwise, and people are already experimenting with prompts that dig into internal latent representations used by the models. It seems obvious to me that machines will communicate with each other in a much more expressive and efficient latent language, closer to a mind-meld than communication, and human language will be relegated to a “last-mile” artifact used primarily for communicating with humans. And the more they talk to each other for reasons other than mediating between humans, the more the internal languages involved will evolve independently. Mediating human communication is only one reason for machines to talk to each other.