John Nosta

New Jersey

Founder, NostaLab and Contributor at Freelance

I'm a Leading Innovation Theorist in Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine.

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AI and the Probabilistic Self - John Nosta

2 weeks ago | qoshe.com | John Nosta

I’ve spent the last few years immersed in the strange and compelling world of large language models (LLMs)—writing, speaking, and, yes, obsessing over their inner workings. From the collapse of thought in hyperdimensional space to the Cognitive DAO, I’ve explored how these machines don’t just process language—they provoke new ways of understanding thought itself. What fascinates me most is how LLMs generate language not through linear reasoning or fixed logic, but through probability.
The One-Dimensional Human in the Hyperdimensional Age

2 weeks ago | psychologytoday.com | John Nosta

It all began with awe—the kind that leaves you quiet. Not from reading headlines about artificial intelligence, but from watching it in action. I’ve spent the better part of the past few years immersed in the world of large language models—curious, skeptical, inspired. And somewhere along the way, the narrative began to shift. These weren’t just tools anymore. They weren’t digital assistants or clever engines of suggestion.
AI and the Memetic Spiral

2 weeks ago | psychologytoday.com | John Nosta

One of the most common words I’ve seen used to describe large language models is mimic. Sometimes it reflects the statistical mechanics of prediction and pattern, other times, it’s a condescending swipe at their lack of “real” intelligence. Either way, the mimic is here. We live in an age of mimicry—or perhaps even of mimics themselves. Large language models don’t possess original thought or genuine emotion, and yet they often sound like they do. Why? Because they are trained on us.
AI and the Memetic Spiral - John Nosta

2 weeks ago | qoshe.com | John Nosta
LLMs, Quantum Physics, and the Language of the Unthinkable

2 weeks ago | psychologytoday.com | John Nosta

I remember being in my early 20s, sitting under an expansive sky, reading a strange yet captivating book titled The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukuv. It didn’t promise physics in the conventional sense. Instead, it offered something stranger. It was an invitation to look sideways at reality, where quantum theory met Eastern thought, and uncertainty wasn’t a flaw but a doorway. What captivated me most wasn’t the science itself—it was the spirit of the book.
LLMs, Quantum Physics, and the Language of the Unthinkable

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | John Nosta

7 hours ago OpenAI says it’ll release o3 after all, delays GPT-5 After effectively canceling the consumer launch of its o3 reasoning model in February, OpenAI now says it aims to release both o3 and a next-gen successor, o4-mini, in “a couple of weeks.” In a post on X on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the reversal in course is related to OpenAI’s upcoming … 7 hours ago First month on record: fossil fuels drop below 50% of US power mix Fossil fuels just hit a record low in the US...
When Your AI Assistant Is Much Smarter Than You

3 weeks ago | psychologytoday.com | John Nosta

“The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.”– B.F. SkinnerIn Google DeepMind’s latest blog post, a seemingly technical update carries important cognitive and philosophical implications. Their newest large language model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, scored 84% on the GPQA benchmark. For those unfamiliar, GPQA is not your average trivia test—it’s a collection of graduate-level, multiple-choice questions designed to challenge domain experts in fields like physics, biology, and chemistry.
AI Beat the Turing Test by Being a Better Human

3 weeks ago | psychologytoday.com | John Nosta

In a recent preprint study, researchers put GPT-4.5 to the test—not to solve complex problems or write code, but to do something far more human—hold a conversation. The results were impressive. When asked to tell the difference between a real person and the AI, most people chose the AI. In a series of real-time, head-to-head text conversations, human judges were asked to identify which of two chat partners was an actual person.
AI and the Flipbook of Thought

3 weeks ago | psychologytoday.com | John Nosta

It's not uncommon to frame the debate around artificial intelligence in terms of consciousness. Does it have it, when might it develop it, and what would it mean if it did? But this may be the wrong lens. Instead of asking whether AI is aware, we might ask something more fundamental: Why does it feel like it thinks? And the answer, surprisingly, may not lie in complexity or architecture—but in speed. What we experience when interacting with large language models isn’t thought as we know it.
The Fluid Architecture of Cognitive Possibility - John Nosta

3 weeks ago | qoshe.com | John Nosta