A Country of Geniuses

Field Guide for an Emerging Era

A Country of Geniuses in a Data Center

This project tracks a simple but consequential idea: software systems are becoming more capable, more available, and more economically relevant. The goal here is to stay factual, readable, and useful for people trying to understand what changes next.

“A country of geniuses in a data center.”

A phrase often used in frontier AI discourse to describe dense, scalable digital capability.

What this site is

An informational hub grounded in public sources, focused on capabilities, governance, and societal effects.

What this site is not

No fantasy timelines, no made-up metrics, and no synthetic charts without a public methodology.

Long-term direction

A community for serious discussion: high-signal debate, reading groups, and practical working circles.

Grounded Timeline

Key moments that shaped modern AI

  1. Dartmouth Summer Research Project

    The term artificial intelligence was introduced in the Dartmouth proposal.

    Source

  2. AlexNet wins ImageNet

    Deep convolutional networks demonstrated a major leap in large-scale visual recognition.

    Source

  3. Transformers introduced

    Attention Is All You Need laid the architecture foundation for many modern language models.

    Source

  4. ChatGPT launches publicly

    Conversational AI reached mainstream usage at global scale.

    Source

Community Direction

Planned structure for participation

Phase 1

Curated knowledge base

Short explainers, source links, and a shared glossary that keeps terminology precise.

Phase 2

Moderated discussion rooms

Focused conversation threads: alignment, economics, policy, labor, and technical frontiers.

Phase 3

Working groups

Small teams producing public artifacts: reading notes, position briefs, and practical proposals.

Reading List

Start here

If you want to help shape the community format, email [email protected].