Category: Reflections in the Machine
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Reflections in the Machine – Part 3: The Day the Mirror Stops Reflecting
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In the first essay in this series, I suggested that modern AI behaves a lot like a mirror. The more context you provide, the more clearly it reflects patterns in your thinking. In the second essay, we pushed that idea further. The mirror isn’t just reflecting anymore. It’s participating in the conversation. But there’s a…
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Reflections in the Machine – Part 2: When the Mirror Starts Talking Back
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In the first essay in this series, I suggested that modern AI behaves a lot like a mirror. The more context you provide, the more clearly it reflects patterns in your thinking back to you. That alone is interesting. But something else is starting to happen. The mirror is beginning to talk back. Modern AI…
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Reflections in the Machine – Part 1: The Mirror
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Spend enough time interacting with modern AI systems and something interesting starts to happen. At first it feels like software. A tool. Another interface. But the more context you provide, the more the responses start to align with the way you think. The system begins organizing your ideas, reflecting patterns, and presenting them back in…