Subj : Re: Anthropic/Dept of War
To   : Ron L.
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Sun Mar 01 2026 07:57 am

 RL> A while back, someone built an expert system (pre-LLM AI) for flavor
 RL> pairings.  All it was programmed with was "X tastes good with Y" type of
 RL> information.  But there were no "pickles taste funny" type of biases. It
 RL> came up with flavor combinations that seemed strange to humans, but they
 RL> were tried and they turned out very tasty.
 RL> 
 RL> That wasn't creativity.  That was clear reasoning without our biases.

I get it; it's exploring options without bias, and it results in cool stuff that humans would unlikely ever think of (at least not quickly.)

 RL> I think that, right now, a truely generic AI is not reachable.  AIs for
 RL> specific tasks (i.e. programming) are certainly doable.  But a generic
 RL> AI will have to be free from biases and I don't see how that can be
 RL> accomplished.

I'd like to give AI programming a try some day. There are frameworks that I can play around with. Google has one that's open source (TensorFlowPyTorch) but of course I'll look for alternatives to the root of all evil.

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