System 0: The Default Mode Network of AGI

TL;DR Preface—The System 0 Origin Story For my AI projects back in 2004, SCL and TOSN, the main architectural concept centered on how I imagined our conscious and subconscious work. In my notes, I referred to the conscious as the "single-threaded consciousness". The single-threaded consciousness made sense to me because we have just one body, … Continue reading System 0: The Default Mode Network of AGI

Context Engineering and My Two Books

“Context engineering” is emerging as the evolutionary step over prompt engineering. It's the deliberate design of everything an AI system can access before it produces an answer. The goal is to make it work on the right problem, with the right facts, under the right constraints. That is, by mitigating "context drift" as the AI … Continue reading Context Engineering and My Two Books

Stories are the Transactional Unit of Human-Level Intelligence

The transactional unit of meaningful human to human communication is a story. It's the incredibly versatile, somewhat scalable unit by which we teach each other meaningful experiences. Our brains recorded stories well before any hints of our ability to draw and write. We sit around a table or campfire sharing stories, not mere facts. We … Continue reading Stories are the Transactional Unit of Human-Level Intelligence

Reptile Intelligence: An AI Summer for CEP

Complex Event Processing AI doesn’t emerge from a hodgepodge of single-function models—a decision tree that predicts churn, or a neural net that classifies an image, which only see one quality of the world. The AGI-level intelligence that's being frantically chased requires massive, organized integration of learned rules. That is, a large, heterogenous number of composed … Continue reading Reptile Intelligence: An AI Summer for CEP