Thinking about AI, meaning, and what comes after the black box. I suspect meaning has a lawful, describable structure underneath language. I like to guess about the future and technology, and stay curious about everything.
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Hello World
Admit it: some part of you expects the announcement. One day every glowing rectangle, the phones, the TVs, tablets, every screen we stare into, lights up at once with two words: Hello World. Programmers have used those exact words for half a century to prove a new system is alive, so they’d be the natural first words for an intelligence built on our technology to say back to us. The child finally …
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Fragments of Us
The internet thinks it found the machine’s fingerprint. The em dash: that long horizontal pause writers drop mid-sentence, twice a paragraph in AI prose. Spot the dash, spot the AI. It became the first thing people check, the tell everyone agrees on. Except look at what the mark actually does. It's an interruption. A self-correction. A clarification shoved inside a thought before the thought finis…
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Do You Speak English?
Do you speak English? Right now it's one of the most useful questions on Earth. It opens borders, jobs, airports, and most of the internet. Give it a century and it may sound the way "do you keep a horse?" sounds now, with cars everywhere. A question about a way of life that quietly became a hobby. Not because English loses to Mandarin or Spanish. Because the tournament ends. Nobody Designed This …
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