What Would Shannon Think About Today's AI?
A century after he taught the world to measure information, the ghost of Claude Shannon walks into a modern AI lab — and recognizes every machine in the room.
Picture him arriving the way he liked to travel the halls of Bell Labs: on a unicycle, juggling.
It is 2026. The ghost of Claude Shannon — juggler, chess hustler, builder of flame-throwing trumpets and roulette-beating shoe computers — coasts through the glass doors of an AI research lab. The room hums. Somewhere below the floor, tens of thousands of processors are training a language model with more parameters than there are stars in the Milky Way. Young engineers speak an incantation Shannon never used in life: transformers, diffusion, world models, scaling laws.
He dismounts. He drifts past a whiteboard covered in loss curves, past a rack of accelerators breathing hot air into a cold aisle, and stops in front of...
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