Latent Space as a New Medium - by Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly's argument is that a latent space is a medium, not a database. A model compresses an enormous amount of human output into a dense space of relationships and patterns while holding no copies of anything, which is why it can produce a Shakespeare pastiche or a face that never existed. Kelly's move is to treat that space as raw material for artists and scientists rather than as a question-answering machine, and to note that it arrived as a side effect of training rather than as anybody's design goal.

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