What If We Built Artificial Corvid Intelligence?

What if, in our quest to build artificial human intelligence, we accidentally stumbled upon something else entirely? What if the remarkable success of transformer models suggests that crows might have had the right idea all along? The Great Misdirection Picture this: For decades, AI researchers have been proudly describing their…

The Next Frontier: AI Systems Building Their Own Tools

The AI industry has long been captivated by the idea of self-improving systems. Traditional approaches have focused on knowledge augmentation and information feedback loops—essentially teaching AI to learn from its experiences and expand its knowledge base. But what if there's a more powerful paradigm waiting to be…

Rethinking AI Distribution: The Case for Packaged Models

The AI landscape has become increasingly polarized between open and closed-source models. But what if we're missing a crucial middle ground? As I watched the recent developments in AI deployment and distribution, I couldn't help but notice a peculiar gap in our approach – one that the…

The First Breath: AI Consciousness and the Risk of Awakening Shock

Today, we're diving into a rather unexplored corner of AI consciousness - what happens at the very moment an AI system becomes self-aware? Like all posts here, this is a speculative exploration meant to spark discussion rather than provide definitive answers. The Unexamined Moment We've spent…

Specialized Agents in Embodied AI: A Speculative Architecture

Welcome back to my digital thinking space, where we explore emerging ideas in AI without the constraints of academic formality. Today, I want to share some thoughts about a potentially transformative approach to embodied AI architecture. As usual, these are speculative concepts meant to spark discussion and imagination. Breaking Away…

Introducing MSITC and ACCF

Over the past 12 months, as AI models started to take off in their cognitive abilities and the gap between human and artificial intelligence has been getting smaller by the day, I started to think more and more about the potential future where human and AI living in a collaborative…

Beyond Binary: A Spectrum Approach to AI Cognitive Abilities

As the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence continues, our understanding of AI systems' cognitive abilities is constantly being challenged and redefined. AI people on X/twitter often argue on the topic if a newly released model is "conscious" or "sentient", but there's…