Generative AI is obviously more fun and productizable than classification, recognition, and recommendation AI, but is it also more technically and philosophically significant?

I personally think yes. In fact I think generative AI subsumes those other categories. All intelligence is generative

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The deeper truths of reality are like a stone henge shrouded on a mist-covered mountain... The truth is written in the.. cairns, the feel of the wind and the silence... We return to this world of illusions and invisible energy using signs to try to represent that wordless other dimension. Can AI join us in that labour?

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The ability for complex probability-space surveying gives AI the ability to winnow towards where answers may be hiding and to find answers by not making human assumptions about what is possible. Reaching an understanding after such surveys is likely not however entirely probabilistic.