Exponential
from Rapsode by Baba Brinkman
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The evolution of artificial intelligence from single-celled organisms to Chat GPT, as nervous systems and digital algorithms analyze their inputs to accomplish tasks with exponential recursive improvement.
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Exponential evolution of info
Don’t call this intelligence artificial
Algorithmical, just let the tech go
Separate the noise from the signal
The first artificial intelligence movement
Started with billions of years of evolution
Cells reproducing, mutations screw things
Up in interesting ways, mostly useless
Random isn’t usually a path to improvement
Scramble a plan and chance is you ruin it
With one in a million or two fit to boost it
Natural selection infused the flukes in
It seems smart but it’s not
Blind watchmaker fit the parts in a clock
From a poison dart frog to aardvark to hawk
Keep whatever works and discard what does not
And one of its designs was an organ
A navigator and a calculator of fortune
With a hippocampus, a cerebellum and a cortex
Intelligence as a performance
Exponential evolution of info
Don’t call this intelligence artificial
Algorithmical, just let the tech go
Separate the noise from the signal
Exponential evolution of info
Invisible solutions get exposed
Technophobes watch the benefits flow
Noise to the signal, let’s go
Surrounding every organism is affordances
Opportunities and threats you can avoid if you’re quick
Brains evolved to discover and exploit them
That’s how a living thing flourishes
Affordances, discover the better moves
Diamonds in the rough, find the hidden jewels
To get calories spending minimal joules
Game-changing culture, upgrade the tools
Make the rules transcend the person
A fix on a fix, infinite recursion
From a skin to a pen to a tablet surface
To a microchip computational learning
Interconnectable neural networks
Engaging in a vast unsupervised search
Of a dataset, fine-tune in some quirks
Now hit it with a prime and find if it works
Exponential evolution of info,
Don’t call this intelligence artificial
Algorithmical, just let the tech go
Separate the noise from the signal
Exponential evolution of info
Invisible solutions get exposed
Let the benefits flow to the technophobes
Noise from the signal, let’s go
Affordances around us, evolution found some
By stumbling around with its limited powers
And now networks do the same but they’re boundless
Algorithmically extending outwards
Agents endowed with basic drives
Pattern recognition from people to AIs
Chat CPT-3 look me in the eyes
And explain everything human beings can surmise
And eventually, the network’s gonna be
Programmed to read data sets contextually
With any piece of information fetched for me
Cyborg with machines workin’ next to me
Intelligence finds solutions to problems
Clockin’ odds when opportunity’s knockin’
A process, all in the consequences
So bring in the chips to augment us
Exponential evolution of info,
Don’t call this intelligence artificial
Algorithmical, just let the tech go
Separate the noise from the signal
Exponential evolution of info
Invisible solutions get exposed
Let the benefits flow to the technophobes
Noise from the signal, let’s go
Don’t call this intelligence artificial
Algorithmical, just let the tech go
Separate the noise from the signal
The first artificial intelligence movement
Started with billions of years of evolution
Cells reproducing, mutations screw things
Up in interesting ways, mostly useless
Random isn’t usually a path to improvement
Scramble a plan and chance is you ruin it
With one in a million or two fit to boost it
Natural selection infused the flukes in
It seems smart but it’s not
Blind watchmaker fit the parts in a clock
From a poison dart frog to aardvark to hawk
Keep whatever works and discard what does not
And one of its designs was an organ
A navigator and a calculator of fortune
With a hippocampus, a cerebellum and a cortex
Intelligence as a performance
Exponential evolution of info
Don’t call this intelligence artificial
Algorithmical, just let the tech go
Separate the noise from the signal
Exponential evolution of info
Invisible solutions get exposed
Technophobes watch the benefits flow
Noise to the signal, let’s go
Surrounding every organism is affordances
Opportunities and threats you can avoid if you’re quick
Brains evolved to discover and exploit them
That’s how a living thing flourishes
Affordances, discover the better moves
Diamonds in the rough, find the hidden jewels
To get calories spending minimal joules
Game-changing culture, upgrade the tools
Make the rules transcend the person
A fix on a fix, infinite recursion
From a skin to a pen to a tablet surface
To a microchip computational learning
Interconnectable neural networks
Engaging in a vast unsupervised search
Of a dataset, fine-tune in some quirks
Now hit it with a prime and find if it works
Exponential evolution of info,
Don’t call this intelligence artificial
Algorithmical, just let the tech go
Separate the noise from the signal
Exponential evolution of info
Invisible solutions get exposed
Let the benefits flow to the technophobes
Noise from the signal, let’s go
Affordances around us, evolution found some
By stumbling around with its limited powers
And now networks do the same but they’re boundless
Algorithmically extending outwards
Agents endowed with basic drives
Pattern recognition from people to AIs
Chat CPT-3 look me in the eyes
And explain everything human beings can surmise
And eventually, the network’s gonna be
Programmed to read data sets contextually
With any piece of information fetched for me
Cyborg with machines workin’ next to me
Intelligence finds solutions to problems
Clockin’ odds when opportunity’s knockin’
A process, all in the consequences
So bring in the chips to augment us
Exponential evolution of info,
Don’t call this intelligence artificial
Algorithmical, just let the tech go
Separate the noise from the signal
Exponential evolution of info
Invisible solutions get exposed
Let the benefits flow to the technophobes
Noise from the signal, let’s go
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from Rapsode,
released May 15, 2023
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Baba Brinkman New York, New York
Science rapper and inventor of several novel hip-hop variants. Canadian transplant to New York. Pathological optimist.
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