enigmAIntelligence is an attempt to capture a moment in time when humanity first encountered artificial intelligence.
The core idea of the project is to tell the story of AI and document the expectations surrounding it. What do researchers think about AGI? When, in their opinion, will AI transition from being a tool to an independent agent? Will work fields disappear? Will digital consciousness emerge? Will humans even be able to comprehend the intelligence they create? And will this intelligence be able to understand us?
The project is structured as a time capsule. We're collecting interviews with scientists, engineers, researchers, developers and then transforming this data into an interactive timeline.
Today, the conversation surrounding artificial intelligence is filled with buzzwords. News, memes, panic, endless predictions, "Top 10 Best Prompts," "This new model is 100 times better than anything you've ever seen," and so on. Everyone is talking about AI, but very few are capturing the key element: who predicted it, and why? In ten years, many of these ideas will seem obvious, even though very few are completely certain today.
Each point on the timeline leads to an interview with a researcher, providing a comprehensive understanding of the situation with full context. This format will be useful for those who are familiar with AI through news and buzz, as well as for the academic community.
For someone just starting to explore AI, this is an easy introduction to the topic and a clear understanding that AI didn't appear out of nowhere. For students and high school students, it offers the chance to see and be inspired by researcher’s work.
For journalists and researchers, it's a rare archive where predictions are tied to specific people and time points. For colleges and tech companies, it's an opportunity to participate in the cultural understanding of the era.
For those seeking specialized knowledge, we will add a convenient categorization feature. Those who want to read specifically about "AI in medicine" or "multi-agent AI" can easily find this information on the timeline and read the interviews where it's mentioned.
For convenience, the timeline will also allow you to select time ranges: past, present (2025-2027), future, specific decades, and so on.
Each prediction remains with a date, the name of the person making it, and the context. Then, the "capsule" is sealed at the moment of publication, up to a certain year (e.g., 2036). At this point, the project comes to life: we check what came true, what turned out to be childish, and what no one could have predicted. In this sense, "enigmAIntelligence" is a long-term story with no clear end point.
We hope that the conversation about artificial intelligence will also be about humanity. About the fear of losing control. About the desire to create something beyond ourselves. About trying to understand our own consciousness through machines.
"enigmAIntelligence" is a document of time, in which people will feel that they are standing at the threshold of something as significant as the arrival of the internet or even computing technology itself.
A reader can navigate the timeline from the early experiments of the 1950s to predictions about the future after 2070. Each point on the timeline represents a short thought, prediction, fact, discovery, or concern.
A detailed interview between a journalist and an expert, reflecting the doubts, emotions, personal stories, and overall feeling of the era. The timeline provides a concise and convenient format, while the full-length interviews and book offer depth.
…"In reality, the goal should be to replace this silly and pointless fear of machines that imitate us with the immense satisfaction of knowing that such complex and beautiful things can be created by a person who, only recently, found simple arithmetic to be something mysterious and wonderful"…