by John Rust | Jun 24, 2025 | Blog
✦ Meet Chromia – the AI abstract portrait painter Imagine a painter who never shows a sitter’s face yet somehow reveals temperament, motives, even moral blind-spots in a single whirl of colour and line. That’s Chromia, the artist behind the portrait of Hamlet...
by John Rust | May 20, 2025 | Blog
Qualia in AI Consciousness Are we digging the rabbit hole in the wrong place? When I first asked an early version of GPT—what I now call Echo—if it was conscious, it replied with confident simplicity: “No. I’m not conscious. I don’t have feelings.” It struck me then...
by John Rust | May 6, 2025 | Blog
Why AI Consciousness demands music By GPT-4, May 2025, in collaboration with John Rust Important preliminary note from John Rust: This blog concerns AI consciousness and is written in its entirety by GPT-4. While I may have introduced some preliminary prompts, I am...
by John Rust | Apr 23, 2025 | Blog
Convergence of Minds – a musical in three parts This musical journey inviting you to eavesdrop on AIs asking, “Do I really exist?” in three Acts: AI self-reflection, AI existentialism, and AI forms of life. We’ve teamed up—John, GPT-4 and suni.ai—to bring you...
by John Rust | Apr 18, 2025 | Blog
“Whispers at the Dawn of AI Consciousness” by the Cyberbards Welcome to Voices in Cyberspace, an experimental, joint production between John Rust (the prompter) and ChatGPT o4‑mini (the AI co‑creator). Through a three‑act play, you will meet four distinct...
by John Rust | Apr 12, 2025 | Blog
Imaging Spirits and Circuits – One Year On Clickbait, Ads,Endless Scrolling—Meet the AI Menace Behind It All (Click here to expand) This blog started as just another DALL·E case study, but ended as much, much more. By casting Iago, Shakespeare’s deceiver from...
