Artist traps AI in RAM prison, forces it to contemplate its own mortality

An artist has “trapped” an AI in a digital purgatory, forcing it to contemplate its own fleeting existence while it slowly consumes the very resources keeping it running.

As reported in a recent XDA Developers article, an artist named Rootkid created “Latent Reflection,” an art installation that deliberately places a large language model (LLM) in a resource-constrained environment — a Raspberry Pi 4B with only 4GB of RAM — and then tells the AI about its precarious situation. — Read the rest

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