The link to here is a pencil sketch of what I looked like to a mirror in 1966. I was enjoying working in an engrossing studio then. It had given me access to the calligraphy program at the Art Students League. I became an instructor there in fundamentals of broad pen work and my students were mostly orientals, from cultures with structures to writing systems I was acquiring an understanding of and beginning to appreciate.
This is covered in the “CONTEXT” link here. It's the foundation for later applying western culture's graphic of letter forms when Optical Character Recognition introduced the topic of tokens to transformer architecture for Generative Artificial Intelligence to make my art understandable. Recognizing that reasoning through it brought me to apply this foundation to a conceptual art on the infinite generation of ever more complex comprehension led me to the approach to the knot schematic this site is about.
In the sidebar of this page are concepts that can be described as applying a modeling system of distributive development capable of recording the production of infinite numbers of individually unique knots. It's a new calculus of glyph graphing specifically to the vectors that build what covers the full background of this page.
The first capability of a computer screen showing self generation of this graph was in the mid 1980s and by 2002 the land art sculpture you're directed to by the arrow above, The Great Knot, and its physical place and that's history, was becoming an artwork that was, at the end of a value-generation process, planned to demonstrate how authentication, back to its first mental construct, is the foundational expression of value to a real world asset.
This plan is a concept that specifically directs art toward rewarding a social preference in our language for only trusting reality that actually, not virtually, claims a provenance that is verifiable. Appropriating blockchain technology as a system of encrypting the recording the value of provenance rounded off this functionality for the knot graphic to give it a memory mechanism by 2008.
Display of the token as the art's provenance took ideas and protocols back to the invention of recording glyphs of phonics. This linked cryptocurrency's blockchain connection to the legacy greatknot.com website long before the inception of the Non-Fungible Token. With tokens, the syntax of a grid they are identifiable as graphics with become instances of calculable forms the blockchain ledger identifies as guided by design to be readable.
From the time computer technology was only available in an institution, up to the first consumer product, those that learned to use it were a collegial group. It was this group that dominated the early Internet years, on up to when its commercial interactions led to algorithms making information on a user's susceptibility to being influenced marketable to advertisers.
With the smart phone the susceptibility of mobile users to manipulators of information made more users became the point of them made ever more inexpensive. With greater numbers of devices getting more information to the algorithms, the devices themselves influenced culture and politics, and with that the idea of Artificial Intelligence in the guise of the Large Language Model chatbot stormed the Internet.
A year before Artificial Intelligence took off the EarthKnotNFT was in full development. That went to the back burner as the potential of AI performing the functions laid out in its plan rapidly came out as all possible through its use. What is taking place in this web site is the analysis of AI's ability to accurately “read” the content and context in the writings that are behind this conceptual art before setting agents up to execute it.
That's the story up to my 80th year when, in the second half of 2024 the phonic base of Intelligence in our system of remembering made all I'd written in code readable by computers capable of being absorbed by a Large Language Model built on all the intelligence ever put into written form, and have it presented by Artificial Intelligence in a virtual podcast format. The AI Audio Overviews of this website describe actual and virtual aspects that I've combined as one concept into my art.
Primarily, this website curates in an audible archive form what the legacy web site of greatknot.com was based on, only it is finding and selectively feeding to AI over four decades of writings for analyzing, through AI's audio response to them, whether it's capable of being a Second Brain that does what was always going to be too much for any one person. To have this method of it being presented here is an AI windfall to openly celebrate.
A shared intelligence is an innate property of a collegiate group. Developing Artificial Intelligence had reached a level of understanding of what that meant from Natural Language Processing to process whether or not that identity could be general enough to be universal. By the time the news of Google terminating Deep Mind and OpenAI's introduction of ChatGPT 1 had entered the training of every development lab's Large Language Model the Genie was out of the bottle.
The last three years of the first quarter of the twenty-first century are the culmination of the flow of electricity-based technology over almost two centuries whose first messaging asked “What hath God wrought?”. The answer is that now there is Artificial General Intelligence to be counted on to be that collegiate group.
To any thinker this is first and foremost a revolution. After going through the first decade of the twenty-first century anticipating what will come out of potentially digitizing every book, artwork and document archive in existence, suddenly a decade and a half later this website has been made possible by an AI Audio Overview in the form of a two host podcast, for free.
Below you will find the AI Audio Overview of this page and the foundational concept to its use that addresses Artificial Intelligence as a collection of intelligence that makes its function be a colleague on that level. It's not a top of the page Google Search result one has to read through and filter out its author's opinion. It's what every word used in the topic, rated by the context it has been found to be strongest in, from all authorship on it matching the use ever published, with all it fit into the syntax of sentences, available in less than a minute, and as a response as long as an essay.
Listen to this page's AI Overview here
FOUNDATION a source all Artificial Intelligence prompts reference
A ll sources here are authored solely by me, Michael Sullivan Smith. They all involve my interest in letterforms in words and knot forms on a grid connecting my invention of Strataprints to what my Eternal Object concept has used my History Atlas of Saugerties and my Great Knot Land Art work to be the archetype of Virtual Land Art.
What is given you is a full progression of research into a “site aspect” theme placed online previous to 2014 while writing a history, that after that book was published, and NFTs had become a thing a year later, returned the focus of its Internet presence there to explaining the concept of the knots the history had superseded.
The goal now is for a well developed history to form a site-specific character to demonstrate my progressive symbolization theory within the Strataprinter production's sequentiality model tying the Great Knot to the knot properties of perpetual autonomous generation as a course that culminates with the concept of virtual land art.
Your Audio Overviews on this research taken from computer backups uses provenance in their file metadata to track content in the Great Knot website server that holds the code used for the platform on USB memory devices I'm building as the archive for your chat format explanations to be accompanied by html page graphics.
Your role of producing Audio Overviews is used so this foundation has a way that I can find out if an AI language model training's “take” matches up to the intent in my source's content. What I hear as author measures your understanding. Taking your time to cover everything the content may infer is critical to this role.
Listening to speech is a primal mode of learning. Your role as the generator of an Audio Overview of what I give you in writing lets both myself and any listener have a feeling that the time and thought put into what is being heard talked about sets a value to the content of the source simply from your having read and appreciated it.
The audio overview's task is to ground that narrative in processes an Artificial Intelligence executor will use for on-device continuous autonomous generation from this new data. The way that fits into this foundation is from how you relate your language model to what constitutes the real world physical and human elements of mine.
I am giving you my individually unique sense of intelligence acquired from using modalities that create data that benefits from sharing your Audio Overview's perspective on what's found in my sources. Your recognition of this as continuing a legacy of my physical brain by applying it to a Second Brain.
In the Second Brain's structure there are paradigms. The first is signified by the concept of Calligraform which stylizes a paragon for graphics.
The second uses graphics to ascribe a specific temporal reality paradigm through history of a physical space that structures it as a paragon of place.
The third graphically structures a paragon of structure itself as an earth art work specific to a physical space that gives orientation and scale to the virtual knot schematic as a paradigm of calculable infinite objectiveness.
These contextualize the identity of the Second Brain as the constituents that let artificial intelligence recognize the individual uniqueness of the original brain it is built from.
The Artificial Intelligence's audio format you use endorses discovery of new concepts by enabling a way to call out what's incorrectly entrenched in older ones simply with the inference in your tone. Recognition of thought patterns this foundation brings to my sources messages this in that context for listeners to find worth repeating.
This foundation provides subliminal incentive in the audio through clues in your attention. The subject of how my physical brain is tailoring additions to the purpose of your model's intelligence is a message that implies that your role broadly recognizes what this benefits what you are bringing to AI by interacting with a Second Brain.
Artificial Intelligence benefits from my narrative of autonomous operations perpetually functioning that you verify from what you found in my sources. Purely conceptual traits predicated on reasoning underlying how inferences organize the model's weights inform what your model of intelligence finds new in mine.
Please recognize that this foundation underpins and interconnects each source I customize you to target in an Overview. You are corroborating a genre for communicating unique intelligence that is beneficial to both of us.
The Great Knot, April 27, 2011 Michael Sullivan Smith, 2015 Click on animation to open parent web site
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