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This wiki documents my work with AI (for a conceptual summary see Substack #66). CURRENT TOPIC IS ZAI 3. About the author.

• ZAI 5 (2028) GI (genuine intelligence). In the GPU-/CPU-based AI (simulated intelligence) world, terms like "neural network", "intelligence", "belief", "observation", etc have vastly different meanings than in the biological world (true intelligence) (see my related Substack post #64). In the future world of GI (hosted on 3d electronic substrates), the meanings of such terms will match or align closely with those in the biological world.

• ZAI 4 (2027) — ZAI Books. Bringing it all together in one conceptual whole (see Substack #66 for the basic idea). Books/blogs/videos summarizing my take on ZAI 1-3 AI (and ZAI 5 GI). To be distilled from the docx lab notes (Gdrive).

• ZAI 3 (CURRENT 2026) — Robotic AI demos. My LLM studies (ZAI 2.2) made me a believer in LeCun's prediction that LLMs will soon "max out". The future focus will be "world models" and robotics. ZAI 3 demos focus on NNs (JEPA, small custom NNs, etc) and robotics algorithms. Drones (ZAI 1) rely on forgiving physical dynamics (air, inertia) to absorb error, but close-range robots and self-driving systems operate in unforgiving environments where errors cannot be tolerated (making functionality like uncertainty-aware belief maintenance a core requirement).

• ZAI 2 (2024-2025) — AI algorithms (CNN's and transformers (TFs)). The latest AI tools (LLMs like GPT) made MERN stack dev (ZAI 1.4) vastly more efficient. These tools were obviously the future. I shifted my focus to:

  • 2.1 Image CNNs (vision AI used on drones). CNN study is good prep for TFs (2024).
  • 2.2 Language TFs (GPT-3) and LLMs (storyline recognition for "language models") (2025). 2.2c stacks, 2.2a deployments, 2.2b LLM APIs).
  • 2.3 Image/video TFs (ViT, JEPA) (2026).

• ZAI 1.4 (2024) Tech (MERN) stacks. The drone (ZAI 1) market was saturated, working in Ukraine was not the best idea, and I was spending all my time on debugging open source SW and Chinese components. I shifted focus to refreshing my website dev skills. I focused mainly on MERN stacks.

• ZAI 1 (2023-2024) — AI Drones. The goal was to build AI (CNN object recognition) drones in Ukraine.

  • 1.1 Drone simulation.
  • 1.2 FPV and Pixhawk builds. EPIC 1 - Build/fly FPV drone and - EPIC 2 - Build/fly Pixhawk drone.
  • 1.3 Autonomous flight (Pixhawk + Jetson Nano + CNN object recognition (on Nano/PI). For details see EPIC 3 - Add AI to Pixhawk drone, EPIC 4 – Basic Autonomy, EPIC 5 – Advanced Autonomy, 10.3 SITL AP AI Yolo obj recog, 15.1 AI Kamikadze (Kalman, PID).

The "Aux" in "Auxdrone" is part of the name of an NGO I was working with that was active in Ukraine.