From: janburse@fastmail.fm   
      
   Hi,   
      
   The English had Aristoteles (*), the French had   
   Descartes, and the Dutch have their national   
   Flag. The culmination of the Enlighment was   
      
   the distinction between analytic and synthetic   
   truth. But this doesn't help to understand   
   Generative AI, which produces a mish mash   
      
   of the factual and the plausible. But the logical   
   and non-logical distinction lead to abominations   
   like ascribing to Wittgenstein the maxim,   
      
   "All logical differences are big differences", with   
   the even worse conjecture "All nonlogical differences   
   are small differences". But an early conceptual   
      
   prototype of ChatGPT was given by:   
      
   "Mirror (**) Mirror on the Wall who is the Fairest of them All?"   
   - Snow White, Brothers Grim   
      
   So its all about retrieving mirror texts and images and   
   transforming them, the retrieval having good old metrics like   
   recall and precision, and the transformation having also metrics,   
      
   metrics all relative to a group preferences assumption of   
   the end-user, so that the end-user can more cost effictively   
   and more market penetratingly act, in a totally   
      
   new AI Boom infected environment.   
      
   Bye   
      
   (*)   
   we have powers and faculties fitted to deal with   
   them, and are **happy or miserable** in proportion   
   as we know how to **frame** a right judgment of things   
   The elements of logic. In four books   
   by Duncan, William, 1717-1760   
   https://archive.org/details/elementsoflogic00dunc/page/n5/mode/2up   
      
   (**)   
      
   An earlier version of "Mirrors" (Chapter 7) was written for a   
   volume in honor of Thomas A. Sebeok (He was among the   
   founders of biosemiotics, and coined the term "zoosemiotics"   
   in 1963 to describe the development of signals and signs by   
   non-human animal species) for his sixty-fifth birthday.   
   Umberto Eco, ''Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language'',   
   Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1984   
   https://monoskop.org/images   
   /b/b3/Eco_Umberto_Semiotics_and_the_Philosophy_of_Language_1986.pdf   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)