I know you're talking about Batty's tears in the rain speech, but I also found the Voight Kampff test pretty memorable:
"The tortoise lays on his back, his belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, Leon, not without your help. But you’re not helping…. Why is that, Leon?"
> “Claude first generated about 650 unsuccessful ideas. After being told to keep trying, it spent roughly a day and a half orchestrating around 60 Claude subagents, producing 31 million output tokens, running about 2,400 shell commands, writing hundreds of Python scripts, performing thousands of numerical checks and having agents critique each other's work. Human intervention was mostly encouragement rather than mathematical guidance.
In other words, this is a cosmically large amount of trial and error trying basically everything the available data told Claude would be worth trying. Humans would never do this, we are too limited resource wise, so this is a big result in itself.”
Isn’t this similar to how the human brain operates, though? Not the conscious experience you’re having as the creative person, but all the work happening under the hood when your brain chews through a hard problem in the back of your mind until it finally delivers a compelling solution to you in the shower.
What feels like de novo creativity to our personal consciousness might just be the experience of becoming aware of the “final product” once all the postulating, theorizing, testing, and checking has been performed outside of (and prior to) our awareness.
On a different note. I gave a toast at a wedding last month, and at one point in my preparations I asked ChatGPT to brainstorm one-liners. Many were garbage, but one of them ended up in the speech and got the biggest laugh of the whole night. Interestingly, it didn’t come out with the joke out of nowhere, but it took two of my existing jokes and combined them in a novel and pithy way that was way, way better with essentially perfect comedic timing and pace. I doubt the same process could have generated the George Foreman joke, but I still found it creative in its own sort of way.
I know you're talking about Batty's tears in the rain speech, but I also found the Voight Kampff test pretty memorable:
"The tortoise lays on his back, his belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, Leon, not without your help. But you’re not helping…. Why is that, Leon?"
I actually do need to watch it again
What is it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked.
> “Claude first generated about 650 unsuccessful ideas. After being told to keep trying, it spent roughly a day and a half orchestrating around 60 Claude subagents, producing 31 million output tokens, running about 2,400 shell commands, writing hundreds of Python scripts, performing thousands of numerical checks and having agents critique each other's work. Human intervention was mostly encouragement rather than mathematical guidance.
In other words, this is a cosmically large amount of trial and error trying basically everything the available data told Claude would be worth trying. Humans would never do this, we are too limited resource wise, so this is a big result in itself.”
Isn’t this similar to how the human brain operates, though? Not the conscious experience you’re having as the creative person, but all the work happening under the hood when your brain chews through a hard problem in the back of your mind until it finally delivers a compelling solution to you in the shower.
What feels like de novo creativity to our personal consciousness might just be the experience of becoming aware of the “final product” once all the postulating, theorizing, testing, and checking has been performed outside of (and prior to) our awareness.
On a different note. I gave a toast at a wedding last month, and at one point in my preparations I asked ChatGPT to brainstorm one-liners. Many were garbage, but one of them ended up in the speech and got the biggest laugh of the whole night. Interestingly, it didn’t come out with the joke out of nowhere, but it took two of my existing jokes and combined them in a novel and pithy way that was way, way better with essentially perfect comedic timing and pace. I doubt the same process could have generated the George Foreman joke, but I still found it creative in its own sort of way.
Fantastic read Stefan!