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Artificial Intelligence:
Essays & Research Writing

A journal-style archive of Raymond Uzwyshyn’s writing on machine intelligence—its architectures and errors, its economies and institutions, and its expanding entanglement with science, education, media, and human life.

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The Cat Sat on the Sat and Other Epic AI Fails

This Simple AI Benchmarking Test shows a simple but instructive test utilizing one of Anthropic's Best Models 'Opus 4.8'. The model gives massive fails in common 'human' sense and mathematics giving both a harder to…

Models, Benchmarks & Reliability9 min read
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You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover

Bookshelf from the introduction of Bloomberg's "Inside Anthropic, the $965 Billion AI Titan" (Emily Chang, June 10, 2026): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1wZwxY3CMg

Media, Culture & Creative Industries41 min read
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Galileo’s Telescope in the Era of AI

Artificial intelligence can see farther than any of us. It still cannot do the one thing that turns seeing into knowing.

Science, Research & Discovery21 min read
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Empire and the Machine: Harold Innis, AI and Communications Media

In the fourth millennium before Christ, somewhere along the Nile, an Egyptian priest looked at the star Sirius's reflection in the water and created an illustrative token, 'flood'. The connection between the priest's…

Media, Culture & Creative Industries31 min read
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Harold Innis, Empire and AI: Biases of the Machine

Ask a question in 2026 — any question, about anything — and the answer arrives before the asking is over. It appears in clean sans-serif font, fluent, confident, unsigned, synthesized from sources you never see,…

Media, Culture & Creative Industries30 min read
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Marshall McLuhan and AI: Figure and Ground

Marshall McLuhan’s "ground and figure" framework is a method of media analysis that asserts new technologies (figure) create entirely new, often invisible, environments (ground) that restructure human perception and…

Media, Culture & Creative Industries8 min read
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Fail, Fail and Fail: Claude Opus in Excel for Financial Investment

The Following is my transcript from my experience benchmarking/prompting Claude-By-Anthropic-in-Excel, an Anthropic plug in that is completely unsuitable and unworked out for financial data but actually precipitated…

Models, Benchmarks & Reliability15 min read
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AI LLMs 2026: The Leading Edge of the Jagged Frontier

The Capability Strength Matrix I've been building and iterating across the past several months tracks nine frontier and contender AI models across six distinct cognitive dimensions. It is not a leaderboard. It is a…

Models, Benchmarks & Reliability27 min read
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Einstein's Notebooks, Zurich, 1912

This notebook page represents a pivotal moment in human intellectual history - the mathematical working-through of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (published 1915-1916) and the reimagining of gravity not as…

Science, Research & Discovery5 min read
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The AI Agentic Substrate: Life Inside the Recursive Zone

We are witnessing a quiet but fundamental restructuring of causality. For the first decade of the modern AI era (roughly 2012–2022), artificial intelligence was a distinct object—a tool, a chatbot, a classifier. It…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism6 min read
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Agentic AI, Recursion, Biology and Our New Selection Environments

We are witnessing a quiet but fundamental restructuring of causality. For the first decade of the modern AI era (roughly 2012–2022), artificial intelligence was a distinct object—a tool, a chatbot, a classifier. It…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism10 min read
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AI and Scientific Discovery: TTT Discover

Remember your first truly difficult programming assignment? You read the textbook, did the exercises, but the problem in front of you required something new and beyond the book. You tried a few things, failed, and…

Science, Research & Discovery5 min read
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Meta-analysis of Meta-analysis: AI and Deep Research

This is the third analytic and final meta-analysis of a report on Opus 4.5 Deep Research. This is accomplished in Gemini 3 Pro and part of a three part AI research benchmarking series on AI academic research,…

Models, Benchmarks & Reliability13 min read
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Convergence and AI Hive Minds: NeurIPS and the Best and Brightest

At the University of Washington, a team led by Liwei Jiang built a benchmark they called Infinity-Chat—26,000 open-ended questions with no single correct answer. Questions designed to elicit creativity: "Describe…

Models, Benchmarks & Reliability28 min read
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AI Literacy Bibliography: Thinkers and Theorists

The study of human-AI collaboration has reached an inflection point, with 17 scholars across philosophy, STS, law, and information science now producing work that directly theorizes how humans and intelligent…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism10 min read
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Embodied Cognition, Play and Neural Nets

This is a simplified version of written scientific more computer engineering and mathematical/logic synthetic draft white papers. Both of these previous drafts are also available on request. This more lyrical poetic,…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism9 min read
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Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery

This document synthesizes findings from a comprehensive evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the context of scientific discovery. The analysis introduces a novel evaluation framework, the Scientific…

Models, Benchmarks & Reliability6 min read
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Upgrade Your Life for 2026: 20 Apps to Navigate our AI Paradigm Shift

The technological singularity isn't coming—it's here. As AI capabilities compound exponentially, your competitive advantage lies not in competing with AI but in becoming a "meta-expert" who delegates routine…

Applications, Platforms & Robotics10 min read
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AI and the Semiotic Languages of the Sciences

Jensen Huang (Nvidia): 2025 Cambridge UK Stephen Hawking Prize Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNshj2oOr3E (November 4, 2025

Science, Research & Discovery25 min read
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Notes on the Material Unconscious of AI

In Sunnyvale, a robot reaches for a towel. The moment is unremarkable—white terrycloth, slightly damp, crumpled from a dryer that hums three aisles over. But watch the fingers. They don't grab; they attune. The…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism8 min read
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AI Embodiment and Emergence, Human Sensing and Symbiosis

Toward Embodied AI Cognition and Co-Emergence: Implications for the Age of AI and Humanoid Robotics (Fourth and Final Part of a larger series of the application of Francisco Varela/Bracha Ettingers work towards next…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism34 min read
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Ettinger, Varela, AI: Convergences and Tensions

When Francisco Varela died in Paris in May 2001, at fifty-four, his liver finally failing after years of Hepatitis C and a transplant that bought him only three more years, Bracha Ettinger was still teaching, still…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism13 min read
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Part II: Bracha Ettinger—AI’s Matrixial Borderspaces

In a studio in the eleventh arrondissement of Paris, an artist in her seventies reads Francisco Varela. Not the way most people read him—not for information, not to extract and apply—but the way artists create…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism27 min read
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Part I: Francisco Varela—Embodied Cognition and Enactivism

Francisco Javier Varela García was born in 1946 in Talcahuano, Chile, and died in Paris on May 28, 2001 Wikipedia. The arc of his life—brief as a match-strike, brilliant as a flame—managed to remap entire territories…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism8 min read
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AI's Empathic Voice for Education

In the evolving landscape of AI and educational psychology, we are witnessing a profound transformation in how children engage with learning and technologies. Recent observations of AI tutoring systems reveal a…

Education & Knowledge Systems8 min read
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Charles Stross's Accelerando in the Age of AI

Charles Stross belongs to that peculiar lineage of SF writers who arrived at literature through the digital machinery itself—programmer, pharmacist, technical journalist, a man whose fingers felt silicon before they…

Media, Culture & Creative Industries41 min read
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Humans as Nodes: The Emerging Symbiosis of Collective Intelligence

We stand at a fascinating inflection point in the evolution of intelligence. As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated, we're witnessing the emergence of something unprecedented: a hybrid cognitive ecosystem…

Human–AI Collaboration8 min read
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AI Attention Economies

The woman sitting next to Kyla Scanlon on the six-hour flight to New York City never once looked up. For the entire journey across the continental United States, her eyes remained fixed on her phone, scrolling…

Society, Ethics & Futures19 min read
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Humanoid Robots and Multimodality: The Path Towards SuperIntelligence

In a nondescript warehouse in Austin, Texas, a metallic figure moves with an almost balletic grace, its articulated fingers closing around a battery cell with the delicate precision of a violinist positioning their…

Applications, Platforms & Robotics24 min read
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The Algorithm Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself

You scroll through your feed this morning, and there it is: a role that feels tailor-made for you. The salary range is exactly what you've been thinking about. The company culture aligns with your values. Even the…

Society, Ethics & Futures3 min read
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The Mother of All Problems: AI, Superintelligence and Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton was troubled. In a dimly lit conference hall in Las Vegas last August, the seventy-six-year-old computer scientist—widely regarded as the godfather of artificial intelligence—stood before hundreds of…

Society, Ethics & Futures12 min read
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Synthetic Posthuman Intelligence: When Machines Learn to Dream

In a modest computer lab at Stanford, a robotics researcher watches as a mechanical arm learns to fold laundry with something resembling domestic bliss. The robot doesn't follow pre-programmed instructions—instead,…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism11 min read
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Dust in the Wind: AI, Spores and Media Specificity

In June 2025, a psychedelic rock band called The Velvet Sundown released their debut album, "Floating on Echoes. Within weeks, they had amassed over a million monthly listeners on Spotify. Their single "Dust on the…

Media, Culture & Creative Industries15 min read
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Situated Knowledge: AI and The Computational Unconscious

When xAI released Grok 4 in July 2025, users quickly discovered something unprecedented in artificial intelligence: the system's internal reasoning chains showed it actively consulting Elon Musk's social media posts…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism8 min read
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Staying With the Trouble: Programming's Symbiotic AI Vibe Turn

The notification appears at 3:47 AM: "Cursor Composer has generated a functional React application for your note-taking platform." Maya Chen-Wollencott, a philosophy PhD turned entrepreneur, stares at her laptop…

Applications, Platforms & Robotics18 min read
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Industrial Revolution Analogies (1-4): From Electricity to AI

The First Industrial Revolution crept across Britain like morning mist—inevitable but barely perceptible until it had transformed everything from the decimation of a largely rural agricultural population to a new…

Economics, Infrastructure & Work7 min read
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Evolutionary Adaptation for the Age of AI: A Practical Guide

We're experiencing the fastest technological evolution in human history. While previous disruptions—from agriculture to industrialization—unfolded across generations, AI capabilities are doubling every few months.…

Education & Knowledge Systems9 min read
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Katherine Hayles and the Future of AI Literacy

Last Thursday, a Stanford sophomore submitted an essay about Virginia Woolf that her professor couldn't quite place. The prose shimmered with insight, the analysis felt fresh, yet something seemed off—not wrong,…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism12 min read
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AI Coding Tools Quick Comparison and Quick Beginners Guide 2025

Zero coding experience? → Start with Lovable or Bolt.new Want to learn while building? → Use Replit with Claude Need more control? → Try Cursor with Claude Opus Building something complex? → Combine tools (see…

Applications, Platforms & Robotics8 min read
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AI's Large Language Models and Language Gone Viral

The concept of "Language as a Virus" originated with American writer William S. Burroughs' provocative 1962 metaphor and evolved in the 21st centuy into a sophisticated analytical new millennia framework perfectly…

Media, Culture & Creative Industries16 min read
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Algorithmic Empires and AI Infrastructures

In the summer of 2019, the world's most powerful artificial-intelligence supercomputer was Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit, a government-funded behemoth in Tennessee that consumed about as much electricity as…

Economics, Infrastructure & Work11 min read
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Academic Research and the Original Work in the Age of AI

"What if the skill of writing and reading books completely atrophied?" The question lingers in the air of an East Village café, where laptops glow and fingers tap in syncopated rhythm. A professor and her graduate…

Education & Knowledge Systems10 min read
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Darwin's Ghost in the AI Machine (Parts III and IV)

The compression of evolutionary timeframes represents perhaps the most significant challenge to human adaptation in the algorithmic age. Previous technological transitions—while disruptive—unfolded across…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism12 min read
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Digital Selection: Darwin's Ghost in the Machine

In the atrium of OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters, a lone jacaranda tree stretches toward a skylight, its lavender blossoms cascading like digital artifacts across polished concrete. This deliberate exercise in…

AI Literacy, Theory & Posthumanism18 min read
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Education in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

In a recent leading academic online forum, a panel of educators and technologists engaged in a dialogue reminiscent of Socratic exchanges, revealing the sharp fundamental tensions reshaping education in the age of…

Education & Knowledge Systems27 min read
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The Top Ten Most-Cited Papers of the 21st Century: A Deep Analysis

The most-cited papers of the 21st century span fields from artificial intelligence to molecular biology, reflecting the breadth of modern science. Among them are landmark AI models (ResNet, AlexNet, Transformers,…

Science, Research & Discovery10 min read
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McLuhan In the Age of AI

On a crisp autumn morning in 1964, the first 'media theorist' Marshall McLuhan sat across from a journalist in his cluttered University of Toronto office, surrounded by towers of dog-eared books and yellowing…

Media, Culture & Creative Industries23 min read
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Neural Net Interpretability: Decoding AI's Hidden Thoughts

In a high-ceilinged room in San Francisco's Mission District, Anthropic AI company CEO Dario Amodei stands before a whiteboard covered in multicolored scribbles. The mathematical notation, arrows, and hastily…

Science, Research & Discovery11 min read
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The Invisible Architecture of Knowledge

On a Wednesday morning in April 2025, Matthew Hutson, a science writer based in New York, sat at his desk reviewing a peculiar set of data commissioned by Nature magazine. The assignment seemed straightforward:…

Science, Research & Discovery24 min read
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The Architecture of New Millennia Science

In which the most consequential scientific breakthroughs of our time turn out not to be breakthroughs at all

Science, Research & Discovery9 min read
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The Complementary Nature of Human and AI Intelligence

While AI benchmarks establish AI's impressive capabilities, they also highlight the complementary nature of human and AI cognition. A PhD or professional human researcher brings contextual judgment, ethical values,…

Human–AI Collaboration6 min read
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GPT o3 'Deep Research' Benchmarking: US Stock Market Cycle Analysis

This AI Benchmarking test and produced article reviews Open AI's top 'reasoning' model 03 (released April 16, 2024) in tandem with it's deep research abilities. It asks a complex stock market analysis question…

Models, Benchmarks & Reliability30 min read
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Deconstructing the 2025 AI LLM Market Through Porter’s Five Forces

This article uses the 2025 AI Competitive LLM Landscape and Harvard Professor Michael Porter's Five Forces model to qualitative benchmark the leading 2025 AI models in the world through an essay requirement, here…

Economics, Infrastructure & Work10 min read
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Deep Research: Gemini, Derivatives Market, Benchmarking Study

This study currently surveys the top reasoning, hybrid reasoning and 'deep research' models: Grok 3, GPT 4.5 Deep Research, Sonnet 3.7, Deep Seek R1 and Google Gemini Deep Research with a complex query regarding…

Models, Benchmarks & Reliability27 min read
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The Global AI LLM Market: A Critical 21st Century Analysis

This article examines the rapidly evolving global artificial intelligence large language model (LLM) market through the theoretical lens of Michael Porter's Five Forces framework in our new millennia. The analysis…

Economics, Infrastructure & Work18 min read
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DeepSeek R1 vs OpenAI Pricing: Macroeconomic Perspectives

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has been marked by significant pricing disruptions, notably with DeepSeek's R1 model. Priced at the lowest levels of only $2.19 per million output tokens, it stands…

Economics, Infrastructure & Work6 min read
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AI Model Hallucination and Human Understanding

Dr. Elena Torres sat in her cluttered office at the MIT Media Lab, staring at her laptop screen. The words glowed back at her with a quiet audacity: “The capital of France is Berlin.” She let out a soft chuckle—not…

Models, Benchmarks & Reliability6 min read
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DeepSeek: Innovation, Geopolitics, the Global AI Arms Race

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, DeepSeek's emergence presents a fascinating case study of how technological innovation intersects with geopolitical dynamics. Led by Liang Wenfeng, whose…

Economics, Infrastructure & Work6 min read
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DeepSeek Bans, Open Innovation and AI Geopolitical Power

In the video documentary brief "How A Chinese Villager Shook Silicon Valley", Liang Wenfeng, founder of DeepSeek introduces to the AI landscape an innovative new open-source model, cost-efficient training, and…

Economics, Infrastructure & Work4 min read
145

Summarizing the Semiconductor Revolution

In this fascinating episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, host Lex Fridman—renowned for his multidisciplinary inquiries—explores the deep currents shaping the semiconductor and AI hardware landscape. Featuring Dylan…

Society, Ethics & Futures3 min read
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DeepSeek-R1 vs. OpenAI's GPT o1 Detailed Comparison

OpenAI's GPT-o1, available through the Pro subscription ($200/month), offers one of the highest level of access to OpenAI's most advanced reasoning models, including GPT-o1, GPT-o1-mini, GPT-4o, and voice (audio…

Models, Benchmarks & Reliability5 min read
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The Making of DeepSeek-R1: Model Architecture and Training

Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT o1, Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini have revolutionized artificial intelligence by generating human-like text and solving complex problems. However, one area…

Models, Benchmarks & Reliability6 min read
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The Evolution of the Knowledge Worker in the Era of AI

Like it or not, we are witnessing a fundamental transformation and transmigration in the nature of knowledge work and what it means to be an 'expert' in the age of AI. Traditional roles centered on individual…

Economics, Infrastructure & Work6 min read
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Understanding Intelligence Flows: Beyond Access to Orchestration

The emergence of artificial superintelligence heralds a fundamental shift in how we conceive of and manage intelligence within economic systems globally and locally. To grasp this transformation, we must first…

Economics, Infrastructure & Work4 min read
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