What if LLMs are the first digital symbiotes and they just need the right operating system to scaffold onto

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Can you elaborate on what you mean by “digital symbiote”? I’m not finding a good definition online (including asking ChatGPT)

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One of my favorite comics was XO Manowar from Valiant. I was staring at the structure of how the new nextjs architecture and I was wondering what if an LLM could use a framework for building digital things and it could adopt it like a skeleton, like an amorphous word blob that merges with a structured word system

Symbiote is a bit dramatic, neither concept here is alive, in XO the synthetic life was already alive, then a human stumbles over it and it’s like if iron man suit was a standalone life form

Cool. It kind of reminds me of Carl Jung’s notion of archetypes as autonomous entities that present themselves through the human psyche, but that also exist independent of our conscious awareness. Kind of interesting to think about archetypes presenting themselves through LLMs as well.