The central (and only) theme of artificial intelligence (AI) is eternity—but not the eternity envisioned by Edison, which is based on static preservation and the immortality of objects or discoveries. Instead, AI proposes a self-generative, dynamic, and ever-evolving eternity. For AI, the only «reality» that exists is the generative archive, which emerges from statistical patterns and algorithmic processes.

In this context, the archive is not merely a repository of data; it is a constantly shifting entity, self-reinforcing and perpetually recreated by its own mechanisms. In this sense, paraphrasing the well-known aphorism by Jorge Luis Borges, «We are already the oblivion that we shall be,» we might assert that in the world of artificial intelligence, «We are already the archive that we shall be.» …  PDF [+]