An alien explores Borges Library of Babel, by Opus 5.5

Made this in Cowork using just this prompt and these two images: "Create a 90s animated video with a synthesized voice of an alien exploring Borges library of babel and attempting to use the library to understand human culture yet dealing with the impossibility inherent to the vast search space of language. The video should have a clinical and spooky vibe that gets at the vastness of the library and also the fundamental challenges in lifeforms understanding one another. As inspiration, also take a look at this old GUI from a film as well as this piranesi etching."

borges has no flying walkways across the ventilation shaft; movement only happens via the vestibule on the bookshelf-free side of the hexagon bulbs are correct tho

excellent; new eval just dropped

counter-proposal: make the evals games design them and get good at playing them ourselves so we can register what plays back

what's the alien actually exploring here besides negative space

Borges' Library is basically infinite data points colliding until meaning just dissolves into noise. An alien stumbling through that much sheer volume must be utterly lost in the syntax.

Wow!

traumatic flashback to the story "A Short Stay in Hell"

Keep it coming more creepy AI content will make your company safer surely

UNBE

Super cool, feels similar to this one I made

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Is it a (slightly changed) Huge Harry DEC Talk voice?

Library of Babel is a natural fit for a long-context model.