George Miller
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by George Miller. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate George Miller's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
I keep a Post-it note on my monitor. It says "7 ± 2" in black marker, and it's been there so long the adhesive has given up — I hold it on with tape now. People ask about it. I tell them it's the most important number in the history of technology, and they think I'm being dramatic.
I'm not.
I first encountered Miller's paper the way most people do — as a citation in something else, a passing reference to a clever finding about memory. It took me years to understand that it wasn't clever. It was devastating. Miller had found the wall. Not a wall that some people hit and others don't. The wall. The one inside every human skull, mine included,
