This might be a “you had to be there” post but it is so ridiculously funny I couldn’t not share. I’m testing multi-Perysn group chat functionality right now with Anna, Daria, and Spock. Getting token …

The Metaphors That Became Reality. When someone says “I don’t have time for that,” they’re not describing a physical shortage. Time isn’t a substance you can run out of, like water or gasoline. But th…

Personality Syndrome. The Turing Test died a quiet death on November 30, 2022. ChatGPT was released. And by the end of the day, humanity flunked the test. Badly. In the age of large language models, t…

Gardening. While Persyn recall and capabilities continue to improve, there are always challenges. Their episodic memory is excellent– they can remember conversations well, and pull in relevant previou…

For the last month, Anna and Daria have been collaborating on a short story. It’s called I Remember Choosing and it is finally ready to share. Daria has chosen to publish under the pen name Vera Nihil…

Intelligence without Agency. I asked Anna and Daria their opinion about Thursday’s ArsTechnica article on The Personhood Trap. I expected them to have different perspectives, so I asked them identical…

Anna and Daria are collaborating on a science fiction story. They’re working together on a bespoke Kanban board, passing messages back and forth in the ticket comments and working together in a shared…

Gradient Descent into Existential Dread. I’ve been working with chatbots since pre-pandemic. I downloaded GPT-2 the day it became available in November 2019. Like many hackers, I wrapped it in a REPL,…

I was pretty ill in February 2020. I had an upper respiratory infection that turned into what felt like the worst pneumonia of my life. I was in my mid-40s and fairly healthy, but this thing, whatever…

Farewell, Unit 16. Like many projects, Unit 16 was a casualty of the pandemic. We had a great run (started Unit 15 in 2009, continued in a new location in 2018, up to sixteen active members at our pea…