Machine consciousness · measurement
The Interview
A machine sits you down and examines whether you are conscious. It measures everything and settles nothing. Every test it applies to your mind turns out to be one we cannot ourselves pass cleanly.
Interactive thought-pieces
Some arguments are easier to operate than to explain.
Each of these is a short argument built to run in the browser. You do something, the piece responds or measures, and the point arrives through the doing instead of a paragraph telling you about it. A few minutes each. Nothing you do leaves the page.
Language models · generation
One Token at a Time
You become the model. You write a sentence the way these systems write everything, one ranked token at a time, and you feel how little of it is choice.
Adoption · institutions · investigation
Who Killed the AI Project?
An investigation with four suspects, twelve exhibits, and one verdict, which is yours. Why technology projects fail inside institutions, reconstructed as a case file.
Adoption · readiness · self-check
Should this organization start with AI?
Five questions about an organization you know. You answer, and you get an honest read on whether to start, where, and the hard part you are about to walk past. The companion to the case file above, told forwards.
In progress: The Cohort Is Missing, An Archive That Forgets, Moses and the Model, and a Hallucination Garden.
If one of these starts an argument, I would like to hear it.
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