AI is a Technology of Broad Listening
iamtrask · x · 2026-07-10
The author argues that AI is fundamentally a communication technology of "broad listening." During both training and inference, it allows information to be transmitted from many people to a single individual. Compared to the printing press, radio, and television, AI acts more like their exact inverse.
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