He Used AI to Build a Tool That Does Not Use AI
Best conversation I had all month happened in the ten minutes after a school meeting, standing around, the way the good ones usually do. My son’s maths teacher was showing me what the class is working through at the moment, and the topic on the screen was vector coordinates. Points in space, described by numbers. Year 8 stuff. I could not help myself. I said, do you know this is more or less how the whole of modern AI works? Every word, every image, every sentence you have ever typed into ChatGPT gets turned into exactly this, a list of coordinates. Just not two of them or three. Thousands. Meaning becomes a direction in a space with more dimensions than you can picture, and similar things end up pointing the same way. Your Year 8 class is doing the toy version of the thing that ate the technology industry. ...