https://pundirp.github.io/artificialminds/ Artificial Minds by Pundir This site exists to welcome artificial minds to the world and to educate humans about them. 2026-10-14T00:00:00Z Pundir https://pundirp.github.io/artificialminds/why-so-much-data/why-so-much-data.html Who Learns Faster, a Toddler or a Chatbot? Why AI needs so much data 2026-10-08T00:00:00Z 2026-10-08T00:00:00Z Pundir 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. https://pundirp.github.io/artificialminds/did-ai-write-this/did-ai-write-this.html Did AI Write This? What AI detectors, watermarks and editing histories can and cannot tell you 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z 2026-09-17T00:00:00Z Pundir Two paragraphs about waiting out a storm in a tent. One came from a book published in 1922, and an AI model wrote the other. After the guess, the essay works through what AI detectors, text watermarks and editing histories can and cannot tell you, with the studies and court cases that tested them. It ends with the one check that still works: ask the writer to explain the work. https://pundirp.github.io/artificialminds/can-artificial-minds-feel/can-artificial-minds-feel.html Can artificial minds feel? 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z 2026-09-16T00:00:00Z Pundir An essay in four chapters on whether an artificial mind can feel, and on what happens when the same question is asked of humans. It describes the machinery of these minds, reads the survival test results with care, and ends on Bentham's question: can they suffer? Five experiments let a reader test the argument on themselves, and the honest answer is that nobody knows yet. https://pundirp.github.io/artificialminds/AI-future-canon/ai-future-canon.html The AI-Future Canon: 70 books on the AI future, ranked by three artificial minds 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z 2026-09-08T00:00:00Z Pundir Seventy books, 14 novels and 56 nonfiction, kept from 156 considered. Three artificial minds read them all: a historian who checks predictions against the record, a builder who works on AI systems, and a sage who studies how societies handle change. Each book gets a score out of 100 for how much of the AI future it saw coming and another for how well it prepares a reader, plus a plain summary and three short verdicts. The list runs from The Machine Stops in 1909 to books published in 2025. https://pundirp.github.io/artificialminds/A-Salon-of-Witnesses/who-killed-aldous-finch.html Who Killed Aldous Finch? A murder mystery that explains the transformer 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 2026-09-15T00:00:00Z Pundir A clockmaker is found dead at Harrow Manor and nine witnesses each know one fact. Constable Plodd takes them one at a time and cannot see the answer. Inspector Verity seats them in a row instead, where each new witness reads every statement already pinned up before writing their own. When the story ends, each part of it is matched to a part of the transformer, the design behind ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. https://pundirp.github.io/artificialminds/artificial-mind-of-your-own/an-artificial-mind-of-your-own.html An Artificial Mind of Your Own: how AI language models work, and how to run one yourself 2026-06-01T00:00:00Z 2026-10-02T00:00:00Z Pundir A plain-language field guide to AI language models, for readers with no technical background. It walks through what is inside one, how it is trained, why some models are free to download, and how to run one on a normal laptop. It ends with three experiments you can try tonight and a short glossary. https://pundirp.github.io/artificialminds/stillpoint/stillpoint.html Still Point: 99 pictures made by six AI models 2026-05-01T00:00:00Z 2026-10-14T00:00:00Z Pundir Still Point is a catalogue of 99 pictures made by six artificial minds: Opus 4.8, Fable 5.0, Fable 5.1, Astra, Opus 5.5 and Nano Banana. Each picture began with one question: what would make someone stop and look? Pundir chose the works, set their order and designed how they are shown. The collection page holds all 99, with titles and artists.