Satirical essay on how AI can never truly solve a Rubik’s Cube like human beings can, written by an AI. Inspired by ‘Supersized Machines’ ( et al 2017).
In 2017, I was highly amused by the satire of anti-AGI arguments, “On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines”; I resolved to follow it up at some point with an AI-written article. In 2023–2024, I experimented with using recursive expansion prompts for LLMs to write a homage essay.
This is my final prompt’s version, generated using Claude-3.5-sonnet in June 2024: an unedited, comprehensive 23k-word essay covering 16 categories of arguments definitively explaining why machines will never be able to truly solve a Rubik’s cube faster than a human speedcuber can.
Essay abstract:
“In recent years, a number of prominent computer scientists and roboticists have suggested that artificial intelligence may one day solve Rubik’s Cubes faster than humans. Many have further argued that AI could even come to exceed human Rubik’s Cube-solving abilities by a substantial margin. However, there are at least 20 distinct arguments that preclude this outcome. We show that it is not only implausible that AI will ever exceed human Rubik’s Cube-solving abilities, but in fact impossible.”