We are living in a backward moment of history. We have mapped the complexity of so much of the universe, seas, worldly information, and created an int

Engineering the Future

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2024-10-07 03:30:04

We are living in a backward moment of history. We have mapped the complexity of so much of the universe, seas, worldly information, and created an intelligence approaching our own, yet we still don’t understand ourselves. This is a singular moment in history where this will be corrected.

The last decade has been important for humanity. Machines now understand the world through text. Read that again. Since text is often a projection of the human mind, machines understand us.

Understanding the mechanics of how this technology works is important. In many ways, vector embeddings, representation learning, and interpretability are the most misunderstood and underappreciated developments in the intelligence age.

It is clear there will be thousands of emerging applications that require personal embeddings. In order for the industry to reach its potential, proper infrastructure straddling safety, security, the curse of dimensionality, no free lunch theorem, and the bitter lesson is required.

The future is not predestined and this infrastructure can take many forms. It will take careful guidance to create a future where individuals own their data, rather than a perverse future where our data owns us.