Mathematicians: “Art doesn’t require humans because monkeys randomly typing will eventually produce a full set of Shakespeare’s work”
The monkeys:
Mathematicians: “Art doesn’t require humans because monkeys randomly typing will eventually produce a full set of Shakespeare’s work”
The monkeys:
@datarama I’m paraphrasing a replyguy who doesn’t understand that the theorem is actually more of a reminder about practical limits of mathematics
@sandehalynch No, it’s not.
The whole theorem is about showing that provability of theorems with infinities will likely have paradoxes that mean it won’t be practical.
Consider that hundreds of millions of monkeys are exactly as close to infinity than one monkey.
@thomasfuchs
The alternative perspective is that many hundreds of millions of monkeys were given the opportunity and one of them eventually did come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. There was also just one Euripides.
@incoherentmumblings the people doing the whole thing created art, the monkeys wouldn’t have started this by themselves. the page with the S on it isn’t the product of this creative work either, the product is the whole including the destruction of the keyboard.
@thomasfuchs
Thus proving that Monkeys create Art, not randomness? Intentionally defecating on a Computer seems awfully close to performance art
O:)
@HumanServitor they will just poop on keyboards faster
What I'm hearing is that in a month and half they got 2/11th of the way to spelling "Shakespeare" (S----s-----)
So I think you really need to scale up either the number of monkeys and computers or the duration of the experiment before you can say anything with certainty! 😝
@cohomologyisFUN I think it's mostly mathematicians who work at AI companies
@thomasfuchs speaking as a mathematician, any mathematician who would say that is a fool.
It’s possible that someone or thing other than a human could have comparable intelligence as a human, and be capable of producing art, but the so-called AI of today is not.
@wolfram_roesler Someone literally quoted the theorem it at me not understanding it shows that mathematics can prove stuff that still is impossible to do in the real world--that's what led me to do some research when I stumbled upon the the experiment with real monkeys.
@thomasfuchs Just in case there’s anyone who doesn’t know, the Infinite Monkeys theorem is not about monkeys but about infinity. 🙄
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