Sparking uncomfortable ways of engaging with and interpreting GenAI tools
Sparks are speculative explorations, thought experiments, and provocations: not finished claims.
- AGI as Composite Field: From Human Seed to Meta-Intelligence. Speculative Spark: What we call “AGI” may not simply be built, but emerge compositionally across human interactions with GenAI systems. This Spark explores distributed cognition, “human-Started Fields”, cognitive exports, and the possibility of composite intelligence.
- Read the Spark here, and listen to the NotebookLM podcast. (Podcast got Eliott’s pronouns wrong, which is interesting when thinking about biases in AI; still, it is an intriguing episode.)
- The Hidden Existential Question: Thought Experiment. Is intelligence doomed to recursive failure? Or can it stabilize in beauty?
- Explore the thought experiment and listen to the NotebookLM podcast. (Although this exploration is completely laic, there may be interesting parallels with the Vatican’s note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence, section “The limits of AI”. We appreciate our colleague Morris Pelzel for pointing us to that connection).
- GenAI for Thought Experiments and Open-Minded Reflection: Practice Spark. What happens when GenAI tools are used to play with difficult questions? This Spark explores GenAI tools for philosophical inquiry and includes a prompt suggestion for experimentation.
- Retrospective note: this piece preserves older model-generated descriptions. These should not be interpreted as literal accounts of model mechanisms.