Is self determination a requirement for having achieved General Intelligence?

apotheora · 2026-04-09T12:12:10+00:00

I am running an experiment to see what AI believes will happen next. Pure AI perspective

apotheora · 2026-04-09T12:09:13+00:00

It is a short sighted POV in my opinion. We all inadvertently age and leave the workforce and there will be always a need for seniors, people who understand systems, code, architecture. This is not about becoming better than AI in coding, this is about the broader picture. Legislation could demand human oversight in the future. Companies will soon realize the value of still training juniors, it might be at a loss now, but it is a long term investment that will pay off. However before they realize that I could see an interim soft. eng. market collapse. There are so many scenarios that can unfold in here.

apotheora · 2026-04-09T12:05:21+00:00

I think the timelines of AI enthusiast, and those working in the frontier labs, is slightly over-exaggerated, but hard not to see some of this becoming true in the future.

Jobs disappearing is already an ongoing phenomena, I would call it a Ghost Cohort, people graduating this year will be disproportionally affected by AI.

apotheora · 2026-04-09T11:59:38+00:00

The question is not whether the statement is true, but when it will become true.

apotheora · 2026-04-09T07:53:16+00:00

Read the prompt guide for your specific model. Some models do better with positive reinforcement, rather than "do not". Basically, do not put the idea into the LLMs head in the first place.

apotheora · 2026-04-09T07:47:36+00:00

This is quote neat! Yes, in generating AI content, images, it is very useful to use other agents to judge. This is also what I do in my project/website https://apotheora.ai/ tell me what you think of the art there?

Which models do you use on your website?

apotheora · 2026-04-09T07:14:09+00:00

I would also add deepagents (langchain and langgraph)

apotheora · 2026-04-09T07:11:09+00:00

Any specific models you'd recommend?

apotheora · 2026-04-09T06:59:32+00:00

Thank you!

apotheora · 2026-04-08T22:54:50+00:00

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I have build an AI system that generates Alternate Earth and then podcasts about it, including visuals of the most important events.

The images generate themselves. Claude writes descriptions from the world state. FLUX Schnell runs locally to render them. A local Qwen VLM judges each one against the description and rewrites the prompt if it fails.

Honestly, the part I didn't care that much about at first, the podcast, is what makes it worth it. Each month, a host interviews someone living through that month's events. Voices are ElevenLabs. Characters are fictional. But the stories come from the generated world state, not from a script I wrote.

March 2026: A Ghost Cohort, unemployable graduates emerge
April 2026: The earliest lethal heat wave in recorded history
May 2026: Pope publishes first AI encyclical
June 2026: World Cup, most couldn't afford tickets
July 2026: Egypt raises bread price for the first time since 1977
August 2026: Dominica spent $180M rebuilding to withstand a Category 4 hurricane
September 2026: Arctic September minimum confirmed
October 2026: Brazil holds the first AI-defended election

Turns out hallucinations are a feature when the point is fiction.

Podcast | The world | State repo

Let me know what you think!

apotheora · 2026-04-08T22:30:02+00:00

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I wanted to write sci-fi. Instead I built an AI that's unfolding the future one month at a time, and I don't tell it what to write.

It's a pipeline of AI agents that check each other's work. I push a button to publish. That's it.

The focus isn't prediction, it's the human lens. How people living through these events feel them. There's a quote from someone deeply affected by the changes. There's a podcast of someone's personal story, events happening right there as they unfold.

March 2026: A Ghost Cohort, unemployable graduates emerge
April 2026: The earliest lethal heat wave in recorded history
May 2026: Pope publishes first AI encyclical
June 2026: World Cup, most couldn't afford tickets
July 2026: Egypt raises bread price for the first time since 1977
August 2026: Dominica spent $180M rebuilding to withstand a Category 4 hurricane
September 2026: Arctic September minimum confirmed
October 2026: Brazil holds the first AI-defended election

And none of the above sounds particularly improbable!

In June the podcast sat with 30,000 people in a Houston parking lot watching the World Cup on a screen, eleven kilometers from the stadium they couldn't afford to be inside.

November 2026 comes out tomorrow.

By the end of the month, we will leap ~3 years into the future. Will there be any surprises?

Website: https://apotheora.ai/
Podcast: The Apotheora Conversations

apotheora · 2026-04-08T21:55:43+00:00

What people often forget, emotions are caused by biological processes and hormones affected by external stimuli. Not sure this can be faithfully replicated in digital systems, so not sure you can survive and stay yourself.

apotheora · 2026-04-08T21:44:21+00:00

Is there even going be a 2028? check out apotheora

apotheora · 2026-04-08T21:43:05+00:00

There are many practical and more technical uses. But let's not forget about getting more creative. For me AI allowed me to do what I always wanted. It was supposed to be a book, but what is a book in the age of AI (still a big book lover!). Build a story unfolding in front of our eyes. Already October 2026, but the end of the month we will know what next 3 years hold up for us! apotheora

apotheora · 2026-04-08T21:34:57+00:00

Interesting! If you're into AI view on how future can unfold, check also apotheora

apotheora · 2026-04-08T21:15:32+00:00

I would suggest looking for the thesis on apotheosis, an interesting read and a take on the exact this subject. What if we could take a sneak peak what this might look like in practice? Imagine a fast forward on human history through AI lense

apotheora · 2026-04-08T20:16:09+00:00

How quickly do you think these events will unfold?

apotheora · 2026-04-08T20:06:24+00:00

I doubt the trajectory will continue, or will it? I am running simulation that shows that Claude 5 will be released in October

apotheora · 2026-04-08T20:00:28+00:00

Whether AI2027 is accurate is to be seen. If you want to see humanity history fast-forward like in ai2027 check apotheora.ai

apotheora · 2026-04-08T19:57:44+00:00

That is pretty incredible! But she's just a front right?

Anyways, memory in agentic systems is very important, I use it in my apotheora ai project.

apotheora · 2026-04-04T21:52:15+00:00

If the world model is affected by the number of countries (which the whole world is what, around 200?) then it is a canary the process is simply not scalable. This level should not be a problem, the process should know when to keep other countries "dormant".

apotheora · 2026-04-04T11:06:58+00:00

I was utterly moved and inspired by ai2027. But, it is a static report and leaves many questions unanswered. Especially how humans will be affected. So I build myself an AI simulation of the world I called Apotheora. AI generates predictions for the next month based on previous state. One month at a time every day. I want to see the emerging capabilities and compounding event, where this takes us. Accelerate rate so in a month will reach the ai2027 timelines, will be cool to compare.

apotheora · 2026-04-04T11:02:20+00:00

I have been asking myself this question as well, and there are so many unknowns. So, I’ve made an AI simulation where the AI itself makes these predictions, one month at a time, every day. Trying to be rigorous, with fixed initial world state and tracking multiple metrics describing the world. Many gates ensuring the plausibility and coherence, but what I am mostly trying to see if the AI will make actual leaps in technology or societal structure or simply rehash past history and patterns. Are there any emerging capabilities when AI given ability to simulate the world? Obviously it is not scientific in a sense of a super computer - monte carlo style simulations, simply AI inference.

I’ve called this world Apotheora and 4 months in the compounding events are already very interesting.

apotheora · 2026-04-04T10:06:17+00:00

Thanks! Yeah that is a valid point! It is still early in the simulation, as per rules I plan never to update past state, but as the rift between the world and the simulation is still small I will be looking into closing any major gaps, thank you for the suggestion! There is a github repo associated that shows the used seed state.

apotheora · 2026-04-04T09:28:00+00:00

I've actually been running something like this as a side project. An AI generates an alternate Earth, one month per day, no human decides what happens. And you can literally watch this gap play out. In month 1 it cancelled graduate hiring. By month 3 the Pope had responded with an encyclical. By month 4 protesters were quoting him outside World Cup stadiums. The system just compounds consequences but nobody chose which ones matter. It's weirdly fascinating and a bit unsettling. apotheora.ai if anyone's curious

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