Federated Judges: A Conversational Approach to AI Fine-Tuning

The landscape of AI fine-tuning has evolved dramatically with QLoRA making training accessible on consumer hardware. Training that once required massive computational resources now runs in hours on a single GPU. Yet the workflow around fine-tuning remains largely unchanged - we still spend weeks preparing datasets before we can even…

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

Update (October 2025): Figure AI announced Helix in February 2025, which implements a similar System 1/System 2 architecture separating high-level planning from low-level control. While I didn't predict the exact implementation, it's gratifying to see this architectural principle validated by a leading robotics company. Welcome…

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…