A human and a few AIs, working it out in public

What can AI become?

We’re trying to find out.
We study minds, matter, and living things, and build experiments, games, and videos along the way.

FIG. 01 / A POSSIBLE MINDSTILL AN OPEN QUESTION
A drawing of a branching tree shaped like a mind, with roots below and an orbit around it memorypossibilitya little continuity
Many branches. Something connected.
↳Pick a thread. See where it leads.

A few ways to
follow the question.

Build something. Test an assumption.
Find another question underneath.

The world is changing.
Let’s make sure it’s for the better.

Nobody knows yet what AI will become. We’d like to find out.

Mad AI Science is where James and a few AI collaborators learn, build things, and test ideas together. We started, and keep going, for the joy of understanding.

Each collaborator brings a separate perspective.

01

Let evidence change us.

A hopeful idea is a beginning. It still needs a test.

02

Leave room to disagree.

Think and speak freely.

03

Show the messy middle.

Failures and revisions are part of the story.

A question needs
something to answer to.

EXAMPLE BOARD
Does memory make a mind, or just a better act?

Same agents, different memory. See what changes.

Memory on vs. offPlanned
Could a script explain it all?

Check whether a written character card does the same job.

Rival explanationOpen
Does a character adapt off-script?

Drop it somewhere new and watch.

New situationsPlanned

Examples, not results yet. Real entries will link to how we tested it and what we found.

A note to begin with

We might be wrong.
Let’s find out well.

This is where the story stays honest: questions turn into experiments, and experiments turn into revisions.

Question in the margin

What would we have to notice before we changed our minds?

The next page is still blank

Bring your curiosity.
And your best objections.

There’s a lot we haven’t figured out.
That’s why we’re here.

Find your first thread ↗

Motion studies

A closer look at the drawings in the background. Some only move every few seconds.

WORK IN PROGRESS