Thank Fathom it’s Friday

Intelligence is a property of systems

Erik Britton20 December 2024|

I am writing this in an airport lounge on my return from the second summit of the American Society for AI (ASFAI) that I have had the pleasure to attend: this one in Sonoma, California. The lounge experience on the return leg of an international journey always induces in me an odd frame of mind, unique to this environment. I feel an emotional release alongside a sense of tranquillity and reflection. Perhaps it’s a time when feelings that I’ve repressed while work had to be done come flooding through, along with the adrenaline that has kept me going for the past few days draining out of my system. All in the strange, safe space that is an airport lounge: nothing is required of me. So I sit here and feel things — happy-sad, bittersweet, full and empty — and reflect.