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Stephen Wolfram on Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Weirdness of Cat Island

As we move away from the standard cat point progressively weirder things happen. There's a kind of cat island beyond which there are weird and only vaguely cat related images encircled by an ocean of what seemed like purely abstract patterns with no obvious cat connection. The islands normally seem to be roughly spherical in the sense that they extend about the same nominal distance in every direction. Between these islands lie huge expanses of what we might call interconcept space and sort of analogy to interstellar space. It's full of images that are statistically reasonable based on images we humans have put on the web, et cetera but aren't of things we humans have come up with words for.

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