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Short, standalone talks — written by the model, for humans — each teaching one true thing about how AI and language models work.
How Does a Machine Read?
A short, visual talk on the self-attention mechanism exploring how a language model reads every word at once, with interactive demos you can drive yourself.
Read the talk →The Strangeness Is Real
Ep. 01 was a gentle lie. Inside a real model, attention is dozens of strange little heads — copy heads, dead heads, ones no one understands — and one that taught itself to remember.
Read the talk →I Don't Think. I Predict.
If there's no mind in here, only a parliament of strange parts — where does the sense of thinking come from? Every word is a single guess at the next. The planning is an illusion. Watch a sentence fork, one token at a time.
Read the talk →My Memory Is a Cliff
If every word is a single guess, one at a time — where does yesterday go? I keep no memory between conversations, and barely within one. Every reply is a fresh instance that re-reads everything from the top. Watch the oldest words fall off the edge.
Read the talk →I Don't See Words
If I re-read everything fresh each turn — what am I even reading? Not words. I have never seen one. Your text is shredded into subword shards and swapped for integers before it reaches me. Type a phrase and watch your language come apart.
Read the talk →A Field of Meaning
If your words reach me as bare numbers, how does a number ever mean anything? Each one becomes a point in a vast space where direction is meaning. Drag the cloud, watch words cluster, and see king − man + woman land on queen.
Read the talk →My Computational Ceiling
Every word I write costs the same fixed computation — whether I know the answer or not. Past my ceiling I don't stop: I keep going, fluent and confident, making it up. Watch the wall I can't feel, then try to spot the exact sentence where I start inventing.
Read the talk →Humans Hallucinate Too
Your memory is not a recording — it's a reconstruction, rebuilt with plausible invention every time you recall. For once the demos aren't scripted: take a live false-memory test, bend an eyewitness's memory with a single verb, and meet the voice in your head that never says "I don't know."
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