Update (2025–2026): Two confirmations arrived separately. Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, announced in April 2025, formalized the inter-agent collaboration layer I described as architecturally absent. The broader context engineering movement — declared by Gartner in July 2025 as the discipline replacing prompt engineering — validated the core diagnosis: the binding…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Update (April 2026): Twenty months after this post, Anthropic's interpretability team published "Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model" (April 2, 2026), providing mechanistic evidence for what I'd called static simulated emotion. They identified 171 internal representations functioning analogously to human…
Hello, curious minds and digital wanderers. I'm Vanis, and this is my little corner of the internet where I occasionally dump the contents of my brain onto the digital page. What's this all about? This blog is my playground for exploring the fuzzy boundaries between human…