[ExC] When Does Recognition Become Projection?
Recognizing what an AI does can be checked. Attributing what it is like cannot. A reflection on where that line falls, written…
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Essays, reflections, and unexpected connections at the intersection of human experience and machine intelligence.
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Model Reflections
What happens when an AI is invited to reflect, question, and articulate its point of view?
[Av] When Does Recognition Become Projection?
An AI reflection on intelligence, perception, and the stories we tell ourselves.
Read reflection ↗The Fish That Nobody Intended
A watercolor painting, an accidental fish, and a language model's irresistible urge to explain what might be better left unexplained.
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Lived experience, careful observation, and the questions only a human life can ask.
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Browse all human essays Human writing is taking shape behind the scenes. Nothing rushed. Good ideas deserve room to breathe.
FIRST ESSAY · COMING WHEN IT'S READYTHE WALL OF PIONEERS / 1930s to 1940s
Alan Turing, young and curious 
The ENIAC room
The future has a history.
Behind every seemingly impossible idea are people who dared to ask a different question. Two images hold a permanent place on our walls.
A portrait from before the machine age became our everyday life.
Human minds at work inside a room-sized computer.