No, an AI cannot know the future and never will..
a day ago
- AI cannot know the future because it relies on human-captured event chains which are incomplete, high-resolution, finite, and limited.
- Human modalities (like text, images) only capture some event chains, often with differing perspectives, resolutions, and arbitrary endpoints, making AI predictions flawed.
- Future AI might try to capture all event chains with a reality sensor array, but faces challenges like the cold start problem, infinite universe size, and self-prediction recursion.
- If AI succeeds in predicting the future by merging with reality, it ceases to exist, highlighting that knowing the future is equivalent to death.
- In a creative context, the author urges breaking free from self-judgment, comparing with idols, and creating original content without paralysis by analysis.