The AI Oroboros

Published 07-25-2023

While driving today I had a thought about AI. I have read many articles and blogs about the comming AI singularity. This will be a time when AI "intellegence" will rise exponentially as it consumes more data and becomes "smarter". I doubt this will happen.

From what I understand, OpenAI's ChatGPT series of AI's has been fed lots of textual in order to train it. It would not supprise me if all publicly avalible literature, both fiction and non-fiction, blogs, websites, newspapers, and magazines have already been fed to ChatGPT. In a bid to get more input I'm guessing OpenAI has been continually scrapping Twitter and Reddit, amoung other social media sites for new data. Both Twitter and Reddit cited AI data scrapping as one of the reasons they are tightening access to API calls.

I think we are at the point where much of useful human generated content has already been fed to AI's and an increasing amount of new material being consumed is going to be AI generated. This will probably result in the AI equivilent of eating your own poop.

Rather than Singularity we will probably have AI Oroboros, forever eating themselves.