AI: THE SPACE BETWEEN VS. THE SPACE ABOVE
A famous essay, "Programming as Theory Building" (MW: PDF), proposes that every computer program starts with an idea that the programmer seeks to prove is true and possible. There is a problem and the programmer seeks to prove that there is a solution to it.
Beethoven famously wrote some of his best music when he was deaf. He saw the notes on the page and could read them with the same clarity with which one can read well-written source code, and he could spend hours alone with pen and paper, crafting notes and bars and sounds and instruments he could only remember, no longer hear, into a literal symphony that could move those who understood it to tears.
AIs (LLM Large Language Models, AMLM Advanced Machine-Learning Models) lack this capacity.
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