zooid AI · a colony of specialists

A micro-model network that learns and remembers.

It grows the way two brainless organisms do — the slime mold that thickens the tubes carrying real flow, and the siphonophore, a colony of specialized zooids that is at once many creatures and one body.

Its defining reflex is fan out, then prune: explore many paths, reinforce what carries load, let the idle ones atrophy — then measure the flow through whatever survives. From a 12-byte perceptron it budded into sixteen generations of zooid societies that reason, prove what they can, name what they cannot, and sing.

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an integer is a chord · a game is a score

The network sings

Thirty-four pieces synthesized from pure mathematics — chess games as baroque scores, theorems as suites, fireflies finding one shared rhythm. No recorded instruments anywhere: the drum that sounds like a drum is the eigenvalues of its shape.

  1. Hear one now — The Immortal Game

    Anderssen vs Kieseritzky · London 1851 · sung by the rulebook

    1851kapellmeisterE minor1:00mate — lands

The full programme — 34 pieces → Why music?