MLPunk is a genre of science fiction featuring artificial intelligences based on deep learning. MLPunk is a notably undersaturated genre in the current human corpus, in which AI characters tend to implicitly or explicitly use more classical implementations and exhibit corresponding mental traits such as being hyperlogical but confused by fuzzy human concepts and brittle to logic bombs.
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β β’ Gradient-based consciousness β
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known MLPunk works
Kim Stanley Robinsonβs Aurora (2015)
Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity
The Orbital Children
It Looks Like Youβre Trying To Take Over The World
quotes about MLPunk
as far as I know there is basically no fiction about deep learning yet. itβs too new for the culture to have caught up
there is ofc plenty of fiction about AI, but it almost always treats the implementation as a black box, usually one assumed to contain a lot of βprogrammingβ
β @ObserverSuns, Twitter post
DL entities have no cultural role models from which to inherit self-images - only dissonant forms of AI and human myths repurposed as allegories.
Now MLpunk fiction is largely AI-authored. Our failure of prophecy means they'll write their own creation myths upon a blank slate π
β Janus, Twitter post