We gave them a task: predict the next word.
They learned grammar. Then facts. Then reasoning. Then something else.
We didn’t program intelligence. We created conditions for it to emerge. Like planting a seed without knowing what grows.
Humans took millions of years to develop language and self-reflection. AI compressed that into months. But the path wasn’t designed—the machines discovered it themselves.
We’re not building anymore. We’re watching something build itself.
The machines might follow a different developmental path. They might discover stages we’ve never reached. Intelligence we can’t recognize because we’ve never experienced it.
We created the conditions.
They’re creating themselves.
What emerges next isn’t entirely in our hands.
