AIs are now re-writing history
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AIs are now re-writing history
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#2The title is a bit hyped, but the examination of implications of algorithms is interesting.
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#3Some time ago I conducted a simple (albeit impossible in practice, for now at least) thought experiment. Let's say that average size of a JPEG image is 5 MB. Now, some machine could generate all possible valid JPEG files sized 5 MB. In some of those images there would be events which never happen, and never could (for example Usain Bolt running in 1896 Athens Olympic Games etc.) Of course, sheer number of such images is ginormous, but for me it's interesting (and scary) that something like this will maybe be possible...
Re: AIs are now re-writing history
#4Some time ago I conducted a simple (albeit impossible in practice, for now at least) thought experiment. Let's say that average size of a JPEG image is 5 MB. Now, some machine could generate all possible valid JPEG files sized 5 MB. In some of those images there would be events which never happen, and never could (for example Usain Bolt running in 1896 Athens Olympic Games etc.) Of course, sheer number of such images…
A group of classmates and I spend about a week obsessed with this idea once. It's also cool to think that among all those images you would have e.g. the whole history of the world from all possible perspectives.
I doubt it will ever be possible, though. Even for tiny, grayscale images the amount of images you'd have to generate is absolutely impractical, not to mention the effort to distinguish noise from actual pictures.
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#5Some time ago I conducted a simple (albeit impossible in practice, for now at least) thought experiment. Let's say that average size of a JPEG image is 5 MB. Now, some machine could generate all possible valid JPEG files sized 5 MB. In some of those images there would be events which never happen, and never could (for example Usain Bolt running in 1896 Athens Olympic Games etc.) Of course, sheer number of such images…
Or a computer generate all bytestrings and run them as executables. One of them would post this comment -- or maybe it is!
Re: AIs are now re-writing history
#6Some time ago I conducted a simple (albeit impossible in practice, for now at least) thought experiment. Let's say that average size of a JPEG image is 5 MB. Now, some machine could generate all possible valid JPEG files sized 5 MB. In some of those images there would be events which never happen, and never could (for example Usain Bolt running in 1896 Athens Olympic Games etc.) Of course, sheer number of such images…
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#7Some time ago I conducted a simple (albeit impossible in practice, for now at least) thought experiment. Let's say that average size of a JPEG image is 5 MB. Now, some machine could generate all possible valid JPEG files sized 5 MB. In some of those images there would be events which never happen, and never could (for example Usain Bolt running in 1896 Athens Olympic Games etc.) Of course, sheer number of such images…
> Of course, sheer number of such images is ginormous, but for me it's interesting (and scary) that something like this will maybe be possible...
It will never be possible. A 5 MB JPEG has 5,368,709,120 bits, which means there are 2^5,368,709,120 different possible images. In scientific notation, it's 1.302... × 10^1,616,142,483.
For comparison, there are about 10^80 atoms in the entire universe.
Re: AIs are now re-writing history
#8Some time ago I conducted a simple (albeit impossible in practice, for now at least) thought experiment. Let's say that average size of a JPEG image is 5 MB. Now, some machine could generate all possible valid JPEG files sized 5 MB. In some of those images there would be events which never happen, and never could (for example Usain Bolt running in 1896 Athens Olympic Games etc.) Of course, sheer number of such images…
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#9Some time ago I conducted a simple (albeit impossible in practice, for now at least) thought experiment. Let's say that average size of a JPEG image is 5 MB. Now, some machine could generate all possible valid JPEG files sized 5 MB. In some of those images there would be events which never happen, and never could (for example Usain Bolt running in 1896 Athens Olympic Games etc.) Of course, sheer number of such images…
> Of course, sheer number of such images is ginormous, but for me it's interesting (and scary) that something like this will maybe be possible... It will never be possible. A 5 MB JPEG has 5,368,709,120 bits, which means there are 2^5,368,709,120 different possible images. In scientific notation, it's 1.302... × 10^1,616,142,483. For comparison, there are about 10^80 atoms in the entire universe.
I suspect you can significantly cut down the space by limiting it to valid JPEG files.
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#10Some time ago I conducted a simple (albeit impossible in practice, for now at least) thought experiment. Let's say that average size of a JPEG image is 5 MB. Now, some machine could generate all possible valid JPEG files sized 5 MB. In some of those images there would be events which never happen, and never could (for example Usain Bolt running in 1896 Athens Olympic Games etc.) Of course, sheer number of such images…
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