Our Intelligence,
Reimagined
A two-Saturday course on AI for humans who want to thrive, not just survive
Format
8 lectures · 45 min each
Audience
Professionals, creators, curious minds
Pace
Accessible · deep · transformative
AI is not coming for you. It is coming for the version of you that never asked the deeper questions.
Most people facing the AI revolution are handed one of two stories: fear or hype. Fear tells you that your job, your relevance, and your income are under threat. Hype tells you to move fast and adopt every new tool. Neither story is true enough to be useful.
This course offers something rarer: genuine understanding. Led by one of Australia's leading AI researchers and a lifelong explorer of mind, meaning, and consciousness, Intelligence, Reimagined takes you inside AI at the level that actually matters. Not just what it can do, but what it is. Not just how to use it, but how to think with it, build with it, and remain unmistakably human alongside it.
By the end of two Saturdays, you will understand AI from the inside out. You will see clearly where the real opportunities lie. And you will leave with a vision of yourself not as someone AI is happening to, but as someone shaping what happens next.
KNOW
Understand what AI actually is and dissolve the anxiety that comes from not knowing
DO
Discover how to use AI as a partner that amplifies your reach, your craft, and your income
BE
Reconnect with what is irreducibly yours, the qualities no model can replicate or replace
—THE PROGRAMME—
Eight sessions. One complete arc.
Each lecture stands alone and rewards the whole. The arc moves from understanding to action to identity, the three things AI forces every one of us to revisit.
Saturday 1 Knowing · what intelligence really is
1 FOUNDATION
What is intelligence, and what is AI?
We begin at the very beginning: what intelligence actually is, and what AI truly means. From there, we map the entire landscape of AI as it exists today: machine learning, computer vision, robotics, neural networks, deep learning, generative AI, and agentic systems. By the time this session ends, you will have a clear, honest picture of what AI is, what it is not, and why the fear surrounding it so often comes from a fog that genuine understanding dissolves completely.
The foundation that makes everything else make sense
2 HISTORY
The rise of AI, a human story
From the ancient legends of artificial beings to the Dartmouth workshop of 1956, from the AI winters to the ChatGPT moment that changed everything overnight. This is the story of human ambition, failure, obsession, and breakthrough, told with the honesty it deserves.
Context is the antidote to panic
3 HOW IT WORKS How does AI learn?
Learning with a teacher, learning without one, learning through trial and reward. We map the different modes of machine learning onto what we know of the human mind, conscious, subconscious, and collective, and find something surprising: AI's way of knowing is both alien and deeply familiar.
Demystified. Completely.
4 LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
Large language models, parrots or genuine minds?
The most contested question in AI today, answered with the first rigorous mathematical proof of its kind. When a model trains only to predict the next word, does it genuinely understand or merely mimic? The answer, and what it reveals about the nature of understanding itself, will surprise you.
Groundbreaking research, made human
Saturday 2 Doing and Being · how to act, and who to become
5 CAUSAL AI
From correlation to cause
Current AI is extraordinarily good at finding patterns. But patterns are not causes. Understanding why something happens, not just that it does, is the next frontier of AI and the frontier where human judgment still reigns supreme. Causal thinking may be the highest-value skill you can cultivate right now.
The insight that separates the exceptional from the average
6 AGENTIC AI · ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The one-person business, powered by AI
For most of history, working for yourself required capital, connections, and luck. AI changes this entirely. An individual with the right understanding can now do what once required a full team, reach audiences that were once impossible to serve, and build a business aligned with their own purpose. This session shows you how, practically and vividly.
Your permission slip to begin
7. RESPONSIBILITY· IDENTITY
When AI replaces work, who are you?
We begin at the very beginning: what intelligence actually is, and what AI truly means. From there, we map the entire landscape of AI as it exists today: machine learning, computer vision, robotics, neural networks, deep learning, generative AI, and agentic systems. By the time this session ends, you will have a clear, honest picture of what AI is, what it is not, and why the fear surrounding it so often comes from a fog that genuine understanding dissolves completely.
The most important question AI is forcing us to finally answer
8. CONSCIOUSNESS·SYNTHESIS
Becoming the cause in an AI era
We begin at the very beginning: what intelligence actually is, and what AI truly means. From there, we map the entire landscape of AI as it exists today: machine learning, computer vision, robotics, neural networks, deep learning, generative AI, and agentic systems. By the time this session ends, you will have a clear, honest picture of what AI is, what it is not, and why the fear surrounding it so often comes from a fog that genuine understanding dissolves completely.
Not just survival. Liberation.