Does "AI live in the past"

 AI Overview

In a practical sense, artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered to "live" in the past because its responses and capabilities are generated from vast amounts of historical data it was trained on. It synthesizes this "digital past" to create content and perform tasks in the present. 

Here is a breakdown of why this perspective exists and how it contrasts with human cognition:

• Reliance on Training Data: Current AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs), learn patterns and information from the massive datasets they ingest during training. This data is a snapshot of information that already existed at a specific time in history. When you interact with an AI, it is drawing upon and remixing this archive.
• Perpetual Present Operation: Philosophically, some argue that AI operates solely "inside the now". Each output is a new computation based on the prompt and its existing model architecture, without a continuous, lived, or autobiographical experience of time like a human has. It doesn't "remember" previous interactions in the human sense of personal recall, although it can access context from a conversation session (a form of synthetic continuity).
• Prediction as Projection of the Past: AI is extremely good at identifying and using patterns from historical data to make predictions or generate content. As a result, it can project past trends and biases into the future, effectively making predictions about the past rather than generating truly novel, context-aware insights that account for lived experience.
• Lack of Lived Experience: Unlike humans, AI does not have a "self" that persists across time, nor does it form an identity or understanding through the slow, continuous accumulation of experiences. It lacks awareness, purpose, and the lived experiences that shape human memory and meaning-making. 

In essence, while AI can produce incredibly coherent and human-like output very quickly, that fluency is a statistical synthesis of what has already been recorded, making it an "agency of the synthesized past" rather than an entity living in the present or future in the human, temporal sense. 

This question was put to AI "Does AI live in the past" so does that mean the Human Race will not progress if we follow AI blindly?

The Worker