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Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind by Mikhail_Edoshin on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:45AM (#49397241)
There were experiments that zipped music pieces, I think, and then classified the compressed files by similarity. They got rather interesting resuls. But I do not remember much details. It was, I believe, about 20 years ago.

Asked Google: "Clustering by compression".

Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind by tyromaniac on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:16AM (#49400642)
That sounds like a really cool project, I will def give it a look.

I still think this has much more to do with the structure of language than the abstract conception I have of intelligence, and I would be interested in having conversation w/ someone for whom the opposite is true.