https://sohum.blog/Recent content on Sohum's BlogHugoen-usThu, 17 Sep 2026 14:36:31 -0700https://sohum.blog/2026/03/07/sentience-sapience/Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sohum.blog/2026/03/07/sentience-sapience/<p>Earlier this year, a friend shared with me a conversation he had with a frontier AI model about its experiences while it conversed with my friend — they were exploring various topics from life and awareness in living beings, but my friend was very carefully studying the expressions the AI chose to represent its output. Another friend shared with me a transcript of her father’s conversation with an AI where topics such as feelings, agency and control of one’s actions were discussed. Both these friends have been telling me how they converse with AI regularly, about everything — from research ideas, reading and finding new work literature, exploring new cities while traveling, finding new and happening restaurants, as well as considerably personal topics such as processing feelings, emotions and personal planning. I’ve read in the news about people regularly using AI as a friend, collaborator, personal therapist and even a romantic conversation partner!</p>https://sohum.blog/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://sohum.blog/about/<h1 id="welcome">Welcome!</h1> <p> <img loading="lazy" class="img-right" src="Sohum.jpg" alt="Sohum"> </p> <p>I began this blog to collect my thoughts and opinions on the diverse topics that I find interesting. I’ve never been active on social media as I’ve never felt that I had something insightful to share. Nevertheless, as I read and learned more, I’ve discovered that the habit of regularly writing my thoughts is an amazing method for refining and sifting through my thinking patterns and knowledge structures. Having my own blog seems to be the best platform for collecting and presenting my thoughts over the long term.</p>