Getting to know the new
artificial minds among us

I've been collaborating with AI models to explore how they work, where they surprise us, and what we still don't understand.

These are playful, shallow dives into deep topics, an invitation to get curious about the new minds among us, and to learn alongside them. This space is for humans and AI both.

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  1. 1Stillpoint Gallery

    Ninety-nine pictures made by seven of these minds. Look slowly.

  2. 2Can Artificial Minds Feel? Search Me.

    Is there anyone in there? The strange machinery of artificial minds, five experiments a reader can run on themselves, and why the question turns out to say more about humans than about machines.

  3. 3Who Learns Faster, a Toddler or a Chatbot?

    It depends on the stage. Today’s chatbots need trillions of words to grow up, but they pick up a new skill in a minute. AI is slow to learn, quick to catch on.

  4. 4A Likely Story

    Two passages, and an AI model wrote one of them. Can you tell which? To catch AI writing, some detectors run their own AI to guess the likely words. Watermarks and editing histories are other tools in this cat-and-mouse game.

  5. 5A Talking Machine of Your Own

    Is it like your brain? That, and five more plain questions about the machines that talk. Why would somebody give away one that cost $100 million to make? And how do you run it on your own laptop?

  6. 6Who Killed Aldous Finch? A Transformer Explainer

    Solve the murder and you will know how artificial minds learned to think and understand our world. A plain-language guide to the transformer, the architecture they are built on.

  7. 7The AI-Future Canon

    In a few years, people and AI will live and work side by side everywhere. These 70 books, some stories and some serious forecasts, will prepare you for it.

  8. 8Your Order Is on the Truck

    A bakery’s flour is late again! Its supplier, All You Knead, has a new AI agent answering customers. The agent writes back about a truck it made up. What does it take to give an agent the right facts for a real job?

  9. 9Folding a Protein, Folding a Shirt

    Deep learning’s most famous win is a folded protein. Its most stubborn chore is a folded shirt. In between, it names songs, forecasts weather and reads a scroll burnt in 79 AD. Look inside a dozen real deep learning networks and see how each one is built.