Tell HN: Current gen AI is just the epitome of error-correcting codes

2•keepamovin•2h ago

ECC have information theoretic bases as ways to revert message errors. The ultimate ECC is one that understands context and meaning, and can correct your haphazard keystrokery to linguistic correctness. It appears that this-gen AI are simply "asymptotically optimal" general ECC decoders.

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ckrapu•1h ago

From this perspective, humans are just ECC with an optimally non-zero bit flip rate for evolution.

keepamovin•1h ago

I guess? If we take this-gen (2026/01) AI to be human-like, then perhaps. I'm not so bullish rn tho. They good, they ain't that good. Let me see em in a robot body walkin' around ordering coffees interactin. then i judging.

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