Welcome back to Artificial Insights, your weekly attempt to make sense of scattered ideas. If thinking refines ideas, creating brings them into form, building makes them functional, deciding chooses their direction, organizing keeps them coherent, and living is where it all touches the ground – then connecting is how…
Welcome back to Artificial Insights, Carol. We have spent the last few weeks deconstructing the mechanics of working with AI. If thinking refines ideas, creating brings them into form, building makes them functional, deciding chooses their direction, and organizing keeps them coherent – then living is about where all…
Welcome back to Artificial Insights, where the ongoing experiment in thinking out loud with machines keeps unfolding in public. For me, this newsletter is a way to organize my thoughts around the hyperobject that is AI. It’s a phenomenon far too complex for any single person to grasp, and publishing my ideas forces me…
Welcome back to Artificial Insights, your near-weekly bulletin from the near future. I’ve been thinking a lot about audiences lately. If AI becomes one of our primary audiences, then who are we really writing to? We used to create for others and for ourselves, and that hasn’t changed – but now there’s a third presence…
Welcome to your weekly download of memes and insights. I am trying to organize observations about how I work with AI into somewhat of a framework. Two weeks ago I wrote about how I think with AI , last week about how I create with AI , and this week I’m focusing on how I build. If creating turns ideas into form, build…
If thinking refines ideas, creating brings them into form. I’ve been interrogating my own use of AI in an effort to create a document or framework that might help others benefit as much as I have from applying AI across as many aspects of life as possible. I’m a technology maximalist – I believe more technology is the…
This newsletter began as an attempt to make sense of our transition toward AGI. I still believe ‘generality’ is next for AI, and that most of us will experience it in our lifetimes. Doing this involves learning, testing, and building things with AI. Over time, I’m realizing the work of writing weekly might become some…
When the future whispers, what does it say? There are as many ways of imagining the future as there are people trying. We inform ourselves, visualize, and backcast from the present to picture possible tomorrows. LLMs are poor at this work: they excel at interpolation – blending what exists, but falter at extrapolation…
Everything is political. As someone steeped in U.S. culture thanks to growing up on a diet of video games, rock music, and the early Internet, I feel at least partially connected to the “American way.” Having never lived in the U.S., my experience and observations are strictly those of a curious outsider, now watching…
One of the more surprising side effects of “infinite intelligence” is realizing just how much of my day is now spent interfacing with AI. The last time I felt something this profound was discovering the internet in the early 1990s – sensing an endless source of knowledge that would inevitably reshape how I learn, work…
Welcome back to Artificial Insights, your weekly dispatch from the near future. The Ember months are here, and I expect the next stretch to bring an overwhelming mix of AI breakthroughs, hype, and inevitable disappointments. What feels most valuable right now are the jagged edges, where customization makes all the dif…
The release of frontier models tends to attract strong opinions about whether we are any close to AGI , or if there is even a path from here to there. GPT-5, as expected, ignited the same polarization. I am not an AGI expert, but rather a curious generalist with spare time and strong incentives to experiment with auto…
