Human-Machine Search: Synthetic Intelligence

A philosophical and personal journey from information technology to AI. This collection of articles and essays traces how the world of information processing has changed over the last fifteen years, moving through Big Data, Machine Learning and Large Language Models.

Technical and philosophical themes are woven together with a framing of personal research, aiming to set down foundational concepts for identifying what computers are doing now, what they are likely to do next, and how humans and human society adapt to a newer artificial landscape.