I’ve had this analogy in my thoughts for some time for AI. Particularly, neural nets.
Think about a coin sorter with a flat floor the scale of the solar.
So the thought for sorting cash is that you simply simply throw random cash at it, and so they fall into the system and bounce round and get filtered into sure paths.
However on this system, the openings on the floor don’t simply have just a few sizes of openings, however billions. All completely different styles and sizes of slots. And there are additionally billions of various sizes of cash.
And while you throw cash (information) on the floor of the solar, that’s what modifications the shapes of the slots.
However then, it’s truly layer upon layer beneath. And the billions of shapes of the slots on the highest layer then form completely different styles and sizes of the slots on the layers under. Additionally billions.
And it does this for a number of layers.
Now, after getting that in your thoughts, now think about that it’s not truly cash. It’s information coming in. Information within the type of mild.
The Earth is a big flashlight. It’s shining all of the information of humanity on the floor of the Solar.
And as that mild hits the complete floor of the solar, it carves billions of tiny nooks and crannies into the highest floor, which shapes the nooks and cranies on all of the 1000’s of layers under.
Till lastly—on the opposite aspect—mild comes out. And that mild is the knowledge of “AI”.
A shapeable object
Right here’s why I like this visualization.
It exhibits how the information shapes the filter.
It exhibits that the sunshine that comes out the opposite aspect is the results of each the sunshine and the filter.
It exhibits that the factor isn’t international!
When all of humanity’s information is distributed to the Solar, that’s what shapes the Solar. That’s what burns all these intricate patterns into its layers.
The filter isn’t a separate factor. The filter is Earth’s information, burned right into a form.
And thus, the output of the filter additionally isn’t international.
It’s only a view of what we despatched it.
