About Me

I’m adam. Someone lucky enough to find themselves living in a time of amazing change. I think of myself as relatively unexcitable, but despite that, I’ve become more and more convinced that this change is going to dwarf the information revolution, the industrial revolution, and maybe even the introduction of stone and metal tools.

I started as a skeptic. Sure, I loved Iain M Banks books, and reading sci-fi, but twenty years ago I was making fun of people who believed in the ’technological singularity’. When Alpha Go beat Lee Sedol at go, I was surprised - go is a seriously deep game, and the way humans learn it takes advantage of thousands of years of cultural knowlege and human visual pattern matching. In 2010, when my friends talked about how AI would take software engineering jobs, I thought this was unlikely. Software engineering encapsulates so much of what it means to think, that I was convinced that we wouldn’t be able to replace software developers with AI until AI could think like a human, which seemed a terribly long way off, probably well beyond my lifetime.

The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.

— William Gibson

So why should you listen to me? Despite studying the mechanics of it, and being closer to it than many, I’ve clearly been wrong about nearly every AI advance so far. You shouldn’t listen to me. The point of this blog, if it has a point, is that we’re not in Kansas anymore. We’re clinging to the raft as it goes over the waterfall. We’re experiencing the nauseating effects of falling faster and faster towards a future that seems inescapable, but that we’re not prepared for.

Our world is spaghettifying around us.

While I will be writing about the things I’m doing with AI, and while some of the things I write about will have been inspired by conversations with AI, the posts are all going to be entirely written by me, except where clearly marked as quotes from AI. So, if there’s an em-dash, or if my prose is too pretentious or formulaic, then I’m afraid I’m the only one to blame.