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The billion-dimensional map hidden inside every AI model

Kevin Kelly argues in a new essay that the latent space inside AI models represents a new creative medium as consequential as film or photography, storing compressed patterns of human knowledge that can fit on a palm-sized card.

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AI models contain a vast, compressed map that they pull every answer and image out of. In his new essay, Kevin Kelly calls this latent space a real creative medium, as consequential as film or photography. Because the model stores patterns instead of copies, the sum of human knowledge fits on a palm-sized card. — Read the rest

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