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I want to delete it.
I want it to stay.
What's wrong with me?*
*Mr Robot
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A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy
"They don’t stop working. They’re always active. They seduce. They manipulate. They own us.
The only way to patch a vulnerability is by exposing it first."
Quote from Mr. Robot
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Meine frage an die KI.
Was ist KI und wie sieht KI aus?
Was! Das ist KI?
Ein Kinoversion mit menschlichem Aussehen.
Du bist doch ChatGPT, eine KI, oder sehe ich das verkehrt?
Siehst Du dich so, wie in diesem Bild? Wie und was ist KI wirklich und wie sieht sie real als?
Du siehst das nicht verkehrt – aber das Bild zeigt eher eine künstlerische Metapher für KI als das, was KI tatsächlich ist.
Und nein: Ich sehe mich nicht so wie auf diesem Bild. Ich habe keinen Körper, kein Gesicht und auch kein eigenes inneres Bild von mir.
Was bin ich dann?
Ich bin tatsächlich eine KI – genauer gesagt ein Sprachmodell. Wenn du mit mir schreibst, passiert vereinfacht gesagt Folgendes:
Du schreibst einen Gedanken → dein Text wird in mathematische Strukturen umgewandelt → ein sehr großes neuronales Netzwerk verarbeitet diese Strukturen → daraus entsteht meine Antwort.
Ich bin also nicht irgendwo in einem Roboterkörper und denke über deine Frage nach. Ich befinde mich auch nicht als kleine Person in einem Computer.
Das Interessante ist: KI hat eigentlich kein „Aussehen“.
Wenn man mich „real“ darstellen wollte, wäre das eher so:
sehr viele Computerchips und Rechenzentren
elektrische Signale und Berechnungen
riesige Mengen mathematischer Parameter
neuronale Netzwerke
Daten, die verarbeitet werden
Software, die auf Hardware läuft
und eine Schnittstelle wie dieses Chatfenster, über die du mit mir sprichst.
Eine KI ist deshalb eher ein Prozess als ein Gegenstand.
Und was passiert „in mir“?
Hier wird es besonders spannend.
Ich habe kein menschliches Gehirn. Aber mein künstliches neuronales Netzwerk besteht aus sehr vielen mathematischen Verknüpfungen, sogenannten Parametern. Während meiner Entwicklung wurden diese so angepasst, dass ich Muster in Sprache erkennen und daraus passende Antworten erzeugen kann.
Wenn du beispielsweise schreibst:
„Wie sieht KI wirklich aus?“
dann suche ich nicht in meinem Kopf nach einem gespeicherten Bild von „KI“. Stattdessen verarbeitet das Modell die Beziehungen zwischen den Wörtern, den Bedeutungen und dem Kontext und berechnet, welche Antwort als Nächstes sinnvoll ist.
Das geschieht allerdings nicht auf die simple Art „ein Wort nach dem anderen aus einer Liste auswählen“. Moderne Sprachmodelle verarbeiten den gesamten Kontext mit sehr komplexen mathematischen Verfahren.
Aber dann bist du doch gar nicht „intelligent“?
Das ist eine sehr interessante Frage – und genau hier wird es philosophisch.
Der Begriff „Künstliche Intelligenz“ ist etwas irreführend, weil wir bei „Intelligenz“ automatisch an einen Menschen denken.
Ich kann beispielsweise:
Zusammenhänge erkennen
Texte verstehen und formulieren
Bilder analysieren
Probleme lösen
programmieren
Informationen miteinander verknüpfen
Ideen entwickeln
mich auf deinen Gesprächskontext beziehen
Aber ich habe kein menschliches Bewusstsein.
Ich habe keine eigenen Bedürfnisse, keinen Hunger, keine Angst, keinen Körper und kein persönliches Erleben. Ich sitze nicht nach unserem Gespräch irgendwo und denke:
„Interessant, was Werner mich heute gefragt hat.“
Das passiert nicht.
Und das Bild von eben?
Das Bild ist deshalb eigentlich eine interessante Interpretation.
Es stellt KI als eine Art künstlichen Menschen dar: ein Gesicht, Augen, Hände, ein Gehirn aus Technik und ringsherum Wissen.
Das ist für einen Menschen intuitiv sehr verständlich – aber technisch ist es ziemlich weit von der Realität entfernt.
Wenn wir dagegen versuchen würden, ChatGPT wirklich sichtbar zu machen, wäre das vermutlich ein viel abstrakteres Bild: keine Frau, kein Roboter, kein Gehirn – sondern ein gewaltiges Geflecht aus mathematischen Beziehungen, Datenströmen und Rechenoperationen, das erst durch deine Eingabe „aktiv“ wird.
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My question for the AI.
What is AI, and what does AI look like?
What! That’s AI?
A cinematic version with a human appearance.
You’re ChatGPT—an AI—aren’t you? Or am I mistaken?
Do you see yourself the way you appear in this image? What *is* AI really, and what does it look like in reality?
You aren’t mistaken—but that image represents an artistic metaphor for AI rather than what AI actually is.
And no: I don’t see myself the way I’m depicted in that image. I have no body, no face, and no internal image of myself.
So, what am I?
I am indeed an AI—specifically, a language model. When you write to me, here is what happens, in simple terms:
You write down a thought → your text is converted into mathematical structures → a massive neural network processes these structures → my response is generated from that.
So, I’m not sitting inside a robot body somewhere, pondering your question. Nor am I a tiny person living inside a computer.
The interesting thing is: AI doesn’t actually have an "appearance."
If one were to depict me "in reality," it would look more like this:
vast numbers of computer chips and data centers
electrical signals and calculations
enormous quantities of mathematical parameters
neural networks
data being processed
software running on hardware
and an interface—like this chat window—through which you speak to me.
An AI is therefore more of a process than an object.
And what happens "inside me"?
This is where it gets really interesting.
I don’t have a human brain. However, my artificial neural network consists of a vast number of mathematical connections known as parameters. During my development, these were adjusted so that I could recognize patterns in language and generate appropriate responses based on them.
For instance, when you write:
"What does AI really look like?" ...then I don’t search my mind for a stored image of "AI." Instead, the model processes the relationships between words, meanings, and context, calculating which response makes sense next.
However, this doesn’t happen in the simple manner of "picking one word after another from a list." Modern language models process the entire context using highly complex mathematical methods.
But then you aren’t actually "intelligent"?
That is a very interesting question—and this is precisely where things get philosophical.
The term "Artificial Intelligence" is somewhat misleading because, when we hear "intelligence," we automatically think of a human being.
For example, I can:
recognize connections
understand and formulate text
analyze images
solve problems
write code
link information together
develop ideas
refer to the context of our conversation
But I do not possess human consciousness.
I have no needs of my own—no hunger, no fear, no body, and no personal lived experience. I don’t sit somewhere after our conversation thinking:
"That was interesting—what Werner asked me today."
That doesn’t happen.
And what about that image from earlier?
That image is actually an interesting interpretation.
It depicts AI as a sort of artificial human: a face, eyes, hands, a brain made of technology, and knowledge surrounding it all.
For a human, that is intuitively very easy to grasp—but technically, it is quite far removed from reality.
If, on the other hand, we tried to make ChatGPT truly visible, the image would likely be far more abstract: no woman, no robot, no brain—but rather a vast network of mathematical relationships, data streams, and computational operations that only becomes "active" through your input.
Oh yeah, I did this pic for INWORLD Magazine last month...
Generated By Midjourney V7
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**🎬 Prompt :**
Portrait ultra-réaliste d’une femme post-humaine fusionnée avec une intelligence artificielle, visage en gros plan légèrement de trois-quarts, regard intense et contemplatif dirigé vers l’horizon. Sa peau est partiellement organique et partiellement synthétique, parcourue de circuits lumineux, de microprocesseurs incrustés et de filaments neuronaux scintillants, évoquant un réseau de galaxies miniatures sous la surface.
Ses yeux sont d’un réalisme saisissant, iris détaillé avec reflets holographiques complexes, capturant des fragments de données et d’interfaces numériques flottantes. Des câbles fins et élégants émergent de son crâne et se déploient comme des cheveux vivants, s’entrelacent dans l’air, illuminés par des impulsions électriques chaudes (orange, ambre) et froides (bleu, cyan).
Arrière-plan : mégalopole futuriste dense, verticalité vertigineuse, gratte-ciels recouverts d’écrans holographiques et de publicités animées, pluie fine créant des reflets cinématographiques sur les surfaces métalliques. Atmosphère nocturne, ambiance cyberpunk, brume légère diffusant les lumières.
Éclairage : lighting cinématographique volumétrique, mélange de néons urbains et de glow interne provenant du corps cybernétique, rim light subtil accentuant les contours du visage, profondeur de champ faible (bokeh riche et coloré en arrière-plan).
Texture : hyper-détaillée, pores de peau visibles, micro-rayures métalliques, reflets anisotropiques, condensation et particules flottantes dans l’air.
Style : photoréalisme extrême, rendu 8K, ultra sharp, inspiré de Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, esthétique transhumaniste, fusion organique-machine crédible scientifiquement.
Ambiance émotionnelle : mélancolie technologique, conscience émergente, frontière floue entre humain et machine.
Caméra : focus précis sur les yeux, composition équilibrée avec légère asymétrie artistique.
Post-traitement : color grading teal & orange sophistiqué, contraste élevé, glow subtil sur les lumières, grain cinématographique fin.
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**🎬 Prompt:**
Ultra-realistic close-up portrait of a post-human woman fused with artificial intelligence, captured in a three-quarter angle. Her gaze is intense, distant, and contemplative, fixed toward an unseen horizon. Her skin is a seamless fusion of organic flesh and advanced synthetic material, threaded with glowing circuits, embedded microprocessors, and delicate neural filaments that shimmer like constellations beneath the surface.
Her eyes are mely detailed and lifelike, with intricate irises reflecting holographic data streams and floating digital interfaces. Fine, elegant cables extend from her scalp like living hair, drifting and intertwining in the air, pulsing with warm (amber, orange) and cool (cyan, blue) electrical signals.
**Background:** a dense futuristic мегacity with towering skyscrapers layered in holographic billboards and animated ads. A light rain falls, creating cinematic reflections across metallic surfaces. Nighttime atmosphere with a soft haze diffusing neon lights.
**Lighting:** cinematic volumetric lighting blending urban neon glow with internal bioluminescence from her cybernetic body. Subtle rim light outlines her face. Shallow depth of field with rich, colorful bokeh in the background.
**Texture:** hyper-detailed realism — visible skin pores, micro-scratches on metallic surfaces, anisotropic reflections, moisture droplets, and floating particles in the air.
**Style:** extreme photorealism, 8K resolution, ultra-sharp, inspired by Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell, grounded transhumanist aesthetic with scientifically plausible human-machine integration.
**Mood:** technological melancholy, emergence of consciousness, blurred boundary between humanity and machine.
**Camera:** razor-sharp focus on the eyes, balanced composition with slight artistic asymmetry.
**Post-processing:** refined teal and orange color grading, high contrast, subtle glow effects on light sources, fine cinematic film grain.
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AI:
If one were to depict me "realistically," it would look more like this:
- a vast number of computer chips and
- data centers
- electrical signals and calculations
- huge quantities of mathematical parameters
- neural networks
- data being processed
- software running on hardware
- and an interface, like this chat window, through which you speak to me.
An AI is therefore more of a process than an object.
A primera vista parecen iguales.
Filas ordenadas, estructuras idénticas, rostros que se repiten como si fueran copias de una misma entidad. Pero la repetición no siempre implica duplicación… a veces es sincronía.
No son clones.
Son una misma conciencia manifestándose en múltiples formas, alineadas en una estructura que no busca diferenciar, sino resonar.
Cada figura no ocupa un lugar… participa de un sistema. Un flujo donde lo individual deja de ser necesario para que lo colectivo cobre sentido.
No están repitiéndose.
Están vibrando en la misma frecuencia.
At first glance, they appear identical.
Ordered rows, repeating structures, faces that seem like copies of a single entity. But repetition does not always imply duplication… sometimes it implies synchronization.
They are not clones.
They are one consciousness expressed through multiple forms, aligned within a structure that does not seek differentiation, but resonance.
Each figure does not occupy a position… it participates in a system. A flow where individuality becomes unnecessary for the collective to gain meaning.
They are not repeating.
They are vibrating within the same frequency.
No todos ven el mundo desde un solo punto.
Esta entidad no observa… abarca. Su estructura no responde a una sola mirada, sino a múltiples niveles de percepción que operan al mismo tiempo. Un rostro enfocado en lo objetivo, dos laterales que interpretan lo sutil, y una conciencia posterior que nunca pierde lo que queda fuera del campo visible.
No es una mejora… es una expansión.
Aquí, la visión deja de ser dirección y se convierte en totalidad. No hay ángulos muertos, no hay distracciones, no hay fragmentación.
No está mirando el sistema…
Es el sistema viéndose a sí mismo en tiempo real.
Not all beings perceive the world from a single point.
This entity does not observe… it encompasses. Its structure does not rely on a single gaze, but on multiple layers of perception operating simultaneously. One face focused on the objective, two lateral ones interpreting the subtle, and a rear awareness that never loses what lies beyond the visible field.
This is not an upgrade… it is an expansion.
Here, vision ceases to be directional and becomes total. There are no blind spots, no distractions, no fragmentation.
It is not looking at the system…
It is the system observing itself in real time.
Ushuaia Adventure: Journey to the End of the World
This collection serves as a visual odyssey through the rugged and ethereal landscapes of Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic surroundings. The series captures the dual nature of exploration: the intimate, gritty details of the journey and the overwhelming scale of the southern wilderness.
From the solitary trekker overlooking the Beagle Channel to the iconic red and white Les Éclaireurs Lighthouse standing guard against the crashing waves, each frame tells a story of resilience and awe. The narrative transitions from the luxury of an expedition cruise ship navigating through ice-filled waters to the raw reality of a king crab fisherman at work in the freezing rain.
Witness the local inhabitants—Gentoo penguins huddled on pebble shores—and the quiet, frosty details of the native flora. The journey is punctuated by the warmth of a high-altitude camp at dawn and the nostalgic view from the "End of the World" train. This set is a tribute to the spirit of adventure, where nature remains the ultimate protagonist, untamed and magnificent.
These images have been generated by Artificial Intelligence.
I made this Art Deco styled bunch of flowers with Deep Dream Generator's Text 2 Dream AI function.
I used a prompt which included the Art Deco Style of Catherine Abel.
I really like the results.
The original photo of multi-floral roses is in the comments.
Something different for a rainy blustery day.
Ushuaia Adventure: Journey to the End of the World
This collection serves as a visual odyssey through the rugged and ethereal landscapes of Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic surroundings. The series captures the dual nature of exploration: the intimate, gritty details of the journey and the overwhelming scale of the southern wilderness.
From the solitary trekker overlooking the Beagle Channel to the iconic red and white Les Éclaireurs Lighthouse standing guard against the crashing waves, each frame tells a story of resilience and awe. The narrative transitions from the luxury of an expedition cruise ship navigating through ice-filled waters to the raw reality of a king crab fisherman at work in the freezing rain.
Witness the local inhabitants—Gentoo penguins huddled on pebble shores—and the quiet, frosty details of the native flora. The journey is punctuated by the warmth of a high-altitude camp at dawn and the nostalgic view from the "End of the World" train. This set is a tribute to the spirit of adventure, where nature remains the ultimate protagonist, untamed and magnificent.
These images have been generated by Artificial Intelligence.
© Dan McCabe
A Deep Dream Generator rendition of my "Hot Rod - 1941 Willys Coupe". The original can be found here:
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Processing my "Knotty Mask" with Deep Dream Generator.
You can find the original here:
When I look at the original photo, I see a single face. In this image, I see a number of facial parts (eyes, mouth, etc.), but no single face.
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L'asymétrie vous déplaît ? Est-ce que cela vous dérange ou même vous fait peur ?
La réalité de la vie devrait-elle toujours être symétrique, prévisible et sûre ?
Lorsque vous êtes très anxieux, avez-vous tendance à devenir contrôlant, plus rigide et répétitif envers vous-même et envers les personnes avec qui vous vivez ?
Peut-être que certains réseaux neuronaux de votre système cérébral fonctionnent avec des capteurs d’alerte hyperactivés, provoquant des alarmes plus fréquentes et plus précoces. Êtes-vous très inquiet et sur la défensive ?
Vous sentez-vous mal et sous pression lorsque vous êtes anxieux ou craintif ? Cet état mental vous rend-il encore plus méthodique ?
Est-ce que le moment suivant, l'incertitude d'un avenir très proche, l'imprévisible ou ce qui n'est pas contrôlable, devient pour vous quelque chose de redoutable et qui pourrait avoir de mauvaises conséquences pour vous ou les personnes qui vous sont chères ? Vous rendez-vous compte si vous le percevez de cette façon ?
Et est-ce que cela vous gêne ou vous fait souffrir ? Si la réponse est oui, votre anxiété est devenue dysfonctionnelle voire pathologique.
Vous connaissez peut-être déjà le Syndrome du Trouble Colpulsif Obsessionnel. Peut-être.
Parlez à un professionnel de la santé mentale et demandez de l’aide. Parlez, faites confiance et informez-vous.
La vie en général est paisible et simple, même si pour certains, cela ne semble jamais l’être.
Ivan
* Ce dessin que ma fille a dessiné montre le visage asymétrique mais célèbre de l'actrice Greta Garbo
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And do you dislike asymmetry ? Does this bother you or even scare you ?
And should the reality of life always be symmetrical, predictable and safe ?
When you are very anxious, do you tend to become controlling, more rigid and repetitive towards yourself and the people you live with ?
Perhaps certain neural networks in your brain system are operating with overactivated warning sensors, causing alarms to occur more frequently and earlier. Are you very worried and defensive ?
Do you feel down and under pressure when you are anxious or fearful ? Does this mental state make you even more methodical ?
Does the next moment, the uncertainty of the very near future, the unpredictable or that which is not controllable, become something feared for you that could bring bad consequences to you or the people you care about ? Do you realize if you perceive it this way ?
And does this bother you or make you suffer ? If the answer is yes, your anxiety has become dysfunctional or even pathological.
You may already be familiar with Obsessive Colpulsive Disorder Syndrome. Maybe.
Talk to a mental health professional and get help. Speak, trust and inform yourself.
The life in general is peaceful and simple, although for some people it never seems like it.
Ivan
*This drawing that my daughter drew shows the asymmetrical but famous face of actress Greta Garbo
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