Evocative triggers sound a bit like the concept of a sign stimulus. A sign
stimulus in biology, ethology and zoology is a stimulus that serves to start
complicated reflex behavior. In German we have the Word "Schlüsselreiz"
(literally key-stimulus) for it, coined by zoologist Konrad Lorenz
(1903-1989).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_action_patternThere is no doubt
doubt we will construct self-learning AIs. OpenAI has created DALL-E and
ChatGPT. The statements or questions we enter at the prompt are in a way the
evocative triggers that cause them to
respond.https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnjjL_-XoAAx_zA.jpg-J.
-------- Original message --------From: Prof David West <[email protected]>
Date: 1/29/23 12:10 AM (GMT+01:00) To: [email protected] Subject: [FRIAM]
serious AI question This is a serious question albeit one in a realm that many
would dismiss as non-serious. First, some background.Rinzai Zen is the "sudden
enlightenment" school that asserts the possibility of a single event serving as
a 'trigger' that evokes/instills-in-the-mind a state of enlightenment. The
trigger might be a closed fist of your guru striking your ear, or—as was the
case with Hui Neng (illiterate peasant who became the Sixth Patriarch)
overhearing a fragment of the Diamond Sutra spoken by a passerby of the fish
market where he was working.This kind of "evocative trigger" is analogous to
your nose detecting the scent of cinnamon as you walk past a bakery and your
mind instantly filled with a complete memory of grandmother's kitchen, all the
scents and sounds, and emotions, an activities, in complete detail.A 'Zen
evocative trigger' would, by analogy, fill your mind with—put your mind in a
state of—Enlightenment. This might be ephemeral, satori with a lower case 's',
or permanent, Satori with an upper case 'S'.There is a large body of art
(calligraphy, painting, poetry, ceramics, ...) that embodies exactly this kind
of trigger; one that can be 'sensed' even if its sensing does not trigger
(S)satori.So the question: is it possible to construct a self-learning AI with
a training set of such art and, once trained, turn it loose on the Google image
base to find other examples of art with evocative triggers?Of course, there is
a hidden assertion: whatever the quality or characteristic of the art that
embodies the 'trigger' is ineffable; which means, in this case, it has no
"representation" (word, symbol, brush stroke, etc.).davew-. --- - / ...- .-
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