How understanding is built
A three-essay sequence on knowledge, composition, and the history behind a working system.
3 essaysRajesh Vasa
Professor & Head of Translational Research, Deakin Applied AI Initiative
On AI, knowledge & what comes next.
I write about how intelligent systems are built, how understanding forms, and the human judgment that makes both useful.
These essays are a place to work through ideas. The projects put some of those ideas to the test.
Recent essays
All 32 essaysThe Symmetry You Choose
The choice of what should remain invariant can matter more than the model that exploits it.
Two Compressions
Finding a pattern in observations is one achievement. Discovering the mechanism that generates it is another.
The Integration Problem
Moving AI into professional practice creates new demands for expertise, evaluation, and accountable integration.
The Regulator's Mirror
Metacognition as a governing layer: how an agent might monitor and regulate its own operation.
Ways into the writing
Follow a threadDesigning the agent
A suggested route through persistent agents, inherited knowledge, latent intelligence, and self-regulation.
4 essaysFrom capability to practice
Begin with reliability, then consider the human and organisational work of making AI useful.
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