CANONIC is a learning language to fully govern AI. Ask yourself why you are still programming computation with LLMs when they repeatedly outperform humans on such coding tasks. What’s missing is AI GOV. CANONIC is a contract with your AI. COIN becomes an artifact of good AI governence. Hardly an opaque transaction. :)
I guess it could also be used to communicate that some problems are too difficult for modest resources, if the reward exceeds 255.
Anyway, the only thing worth spending it on is resource upgrades, right?
That's maybe not what the author was getting at, but that's what I came away with anyway.
Rather, humans involved have looked at this problem and in a few cases succeeded. And in many cases, shelved it and returned to process cardiology, Ugandan infrastructure, etc.
We need both! Hurrah
as an analogy, an art museum couldn't paint their own paintings to hang up (or at least they would not be very good) but neither would monet or picasso have done a particularly good job at designing a space to let millions of people a year view their pictures. both skills are necessary to the overall product.
This has always been true of all systems. Not that it isn’t an insight though since I don’t think enough people seem to get it. To build a system, with an LLM or without, you must know what the system needs to do. If you define it in C or in a markdown file it must still be defined. The advantage with LLMs is they bridge the gap between system definition and being able to simulate that system on a processor. The definition of the system is still required and it still must be precise. Even with “AGI” that’s still going to be true just as it’s true today with humans who do the translation between those who deeply understand a system and software.