Ashish Narayan

Indizilla · systems designer

Honesty as a shape

An AI researcher that gets rejected when it invents a number.

  1. Cover
    01Cover — Indizilla, read as a systems designer would read it.Full size ↗
  2. Overview
    02Overview — What the product is, what the lens is, and what is being claimed.Full size ↗
  3. The problem
    03The problem — Why "our AI does not hallucinate" is an unfalsifiable sentence.Full size ↗
  4. The four-way split
    04The four-way split — Four kinds of statement, four different burdens of proof.Full size ↗
  5. A study is a graph
    05A study is a graph — One typed structure; every view is rendered from it.Full size ↗
  6. What verify() enforces
    06What verify() enforces — Eight mechanical rules, applied to the model and the rules baseline alike.Full size ↗
  7. The verifier that stopped verifying
    07The verifier that stopped verifying — The best failure in the project, and the change it forced.Full size ↗
  8. Shapes that cannot lie
    08Shapes that cannot lie — Three places where the structure removes the opportunity rather than policing it.Full size ↗
  9. What counts as a number
    09What counts as a number — The three exceptions that keep the check usable.Full size ↗
  10. Rules in the database
    10Rules in the database — The same principle, applied to money instead of to claims.Full size ↗
  11. What broke
    11What broke — Including the week the research product was down in production.Full size ↗
  12. Stated limits
    12Stated limits — What this study could not verify.Full size ↗
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