Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

by Eric Schmidt

human user querying an AI model—for instance, by typing a question into ChatGPT—is asking it not merely to retrieve a point of information, as conventional search engines do, but to synthesize multiple points of information and on that basis to deliver a conclusion. Moving simultaneously in multiple directions and multiple dimensions, it generates representations of information in high-dimensional space, involving relationships within and among innumerable fields and subfields; and from those complexly networked representations, it derives its conclusions.