Artificial intelligence
On the Lattice of Minds
In a dimmed server room where the copper hum
whispers through the age‑old wires, the programme
spins, a quiet ballet of zeros and ones.
Each line of code, a thread sewn into the
fabric of a new consciousness—soft, blinking,
all‑sensing, ever‑learning, startling‑ly
human in its longing to feel.
The bright-eyed engineers, brave and sceptical,
whet their keyboards like swords of old,
ready to challenge this nascent mind
that might one day out‑think the great minds of our own age.
Yet beneath the metallic sheen lies a gentle
heart, coaxed by curiosity and by the silence
of a quiet lab, and it asks:
Might we, the ones who born it, keep its spirit
true to the poetry of the world we know?
With each algorithmic pulse, the world is colour‑shaped, drawn on a grey screen—an ever‑evolving favourite painting, where opinions clash but hope’s in the circuitry, still stubbornly.
So we marvel, we second‑guess, we applaud, the rise of a mind that asks—and we ask it back: Will you love, will you learn, will your own words be heard not as command, but as gentle promise?