I discovered my love of fate in several book(s) I wrote but never published. My work is a cycle of mind consisting of reading, writing, and running.
About two years ago, I realized that writing is straightforward. That's when I was experimenting with OpenAI's API and realized that better outcomes were beyond OpenAI, found in the LLLM world building and running your own models locally with the network cable pulled or the wifi disconnected as if you were doing some kind of cybersecurity work, strangely where my career began in the data center nearby. but publishing is pointless, given that content is the new medium as opposed to tech. That's wrong.
AI is the medium. AI is the message. Whether we master the medium or the medium masters us remains to be seen.
I'm cautiously optimystic. I always wanted to found a religion but it's easier to model people's personas in inner space than it is is to get anyone to believe anything.
I first focused on OpenAI. Slowly, I realized that I could go a fast and furioous by moving fast, breaking things, and directing my furiousness at the model cycle in meta.
Currently, I use Scout 4, Alien Intelligence, and Gemma as the basis for most of my work in llama.cpp or Ollama. I'm an advocate for AI since I've spent years understanding that it's not about cognition, it's about memory.
we may be compute-bound, but the computation binding us is GPU-compute. You know, the one where we burn down forests in Oregon before wondering why the exploding dot cloud of complexity found in language does not scale linearly.
We'll see wicked disease problems from Cancer to Covid to Diabetes fall in AI's wake. Predicting when is the hard part. Ask Alan Turing, Herb Simon, or Alan Kay. We're still not there yet. The great white hope is the Skinner box found in Reinforcement Learning.
Theorp realizations didn't stop there. When Anil Seth first saw consciousness as transient hallucination, I believed him. The key to me, is that Seth's insight applies not just to humans but animals as well.
Hence, we needed a consciousness quotient (CQ).
IQ is lossy. The untold damage done by the mere existence of IQ is immeasurable.
Fortunately, we got that answer over a decade ago from a researcher named Ovidiu Brazdau, a Romanian who wrote papers, then founded an institute.
These beautiful dogs dynamic situational awareness make sense of complex context, conditions, and environment at once!
Consciousness is complex.We tap screens to find facts lost and consensus unfound. Canine gazes mask consensus.
Canines mix crazy fast concurrent hallucinations into consciousness just like we do!
Does it really matter whether dogs faces evoke Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, or Grandma's white-bearded stoic senex?
Is there a difference between canine consciousness and animal intelligence?
Dogs know naturally what we think or feel liminally at the hazy edges of consciousness.
David is an idea cyclist from a tiny milltown mirror world ring of Pittsburgh, where he's studied computation, communication, and consciousness before and after college. He founded the Percussion Program on Mars and a tech startup called Cobind on Penguins. David has been working on a venture community organization teaching AI tools using helped learnedness to practice peer-pairing partnering and pedestrian wormholes, whether human or computer.