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Michael Dos Santos

Technological artist, researching and developing at the frontier of technology, data and human experience. I treat research, engineering and culture as one practice, and write about what I find. Humans don’t create, we reveal.

01 / WRITING

  1. 01The World Is Not Logged. Why real-world data, not intelligence, limits AIThe world records everything, in light, heat and wear. Almost none of it reaches a model. That gap, not intelligence, is what limits AI.Deep Tech
  2. 02System 1 Is Solved. AI agents now fail at spatial reasoning, long horizons and contextFast, perceptual work is done: agents read screens, click and type as well as people. What breaks now is the slow work of holding a space, a long task and a lot of context in mind.Deep Tech
  3. 03Reverse Benchmarking. Measure AI on what the leaders neglect, not what they optimiseBenchmarks make every lab chase the same scores. The useful question runs the other way: where does the best model still disappoint?Deep Tech
  4. 04You Cannot Hear a Fake. Why voice deepfake detection fails, and what replaces itDeepfake detection is an arms race the detector loses. Stop asking “is this fake?” and ask “can this prove it is real?”Speech
  5. 05The Voice Came Loose. The state of speech AI: cloning, codecs and super-resolutionSpeech is now editable, and a voice is a parameter, not a person.Speech

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02 / NOW

Based in Palo Alto. More on the about page.