What happens when you can instantly transform an entire book into a playable simulation? That—and much more—is now possible thanks to the long context revolution.
I think your game simulation experiments point to a broader range of simulation experiments that would be more than interesting to develop for teaching (teachers curate content to teach) as well as for social science research.
Yes! Simulations are going to be insanely easy to build. (And not just text-based ones.) It's going to be an enormously powerful new capability in so many fields, education most of all I suspect.
As a curation scholar I can't but fully agree with your final take on the future:
"In a long-context world, maybe the organizations that benefit from AI will not be the ones with the most powerful models, but rather the ones with the most artfully curated contexts.
Perhaps we'll discover that organizations perform better if they include more eclectic sources in their compiled knowledge bases, or if they employ professional archivists who annotate and selectively edit the company history to make it more intelligible to the model.
No doubt there are thousands of curation strategies to discover...
I think your game simulation experiments point to a broader range of simulation experiments that would be more than interesting to develop for teaching (teachers curate content to teach) as well as for social science research.
Yes! Simulations are going to be insanely easy to build. (And not just text-based ones.) It's going to be an enormously powerful new capability in so many fields, education most of all I suspect.
Very interesting stuff Steven.
As a curation scholar I can't but fully agree with your final take on the future:
"In a long-context world, maybe the organizations that benefit from AI will not be the ones with the most powerful models, but rather the ones with the most artfully curated contexts.
Perhaps we'll discover that organizations perform better if they include more eclectic sources in their compiled knowledge bases, or if they employ professional archivists who annotate and selectively edit the company history to make it more intelligible to the model.
No doubt there are thousands of curation strategies to discover...
What matters most is what you put into it."