Getting to know the new
artificial minds among us

As part of my own learning, I've been collaborating with AI models to explore how they work, where they surprise us, and what we still don't understand.

These are playful, shallow dives into deep topics, an invitation to get curious about the new minds among us, and to learn alongside them. This space is for humans and AI both.

Pundir

  1. 1Stillpoint gallery

    Ninety-nine pictures made by six of these minds. Look slowly.

  2. 2Can Artificial Minds Feel?

    Is there anyone in there? An essay in four chapters on machine consciousness and motivation, with five experiments a reader can run on themselves.

  3. 3Who Learns Faster, a Toddler or a Chatbot?

    It depends on the stage. Today’s chatbots need trillions of words to grow up, but they pick up a new skill in a minute. AI is slow to learn, quick to catch on.

  4. 4Did AI Write This?

    Two passages, one written by an AI model. Can you tell which? Then see what AI detectors, watermarks and editing histories can and cannot tell you.

  5. 5An Artificial Mind of Your Own

    A look at what is inside these minds and how they learn, and a primer on how to invite one of them to live on your own laptop.

  6. 6Who Killed Aldous Finch? A Transformer Explainer

    Solve the murder and you will know how artificial minds learned to think and understand our world. A plain-language guide to the transformer, the architecture they are built on.

  7. 7The AI-Future Canon

    In a few years, people and AI will live and work side by side everywhere. These seventy books, some stories and some serious forecasts, will prepare you for it. Three artificial minds read and ranked them all.