I Tried The New AI That Reads Your Thoughts

The room was hot with emergence—new tools, new tribes, new stakes. I lit the fuse, Loki Jorgenson grabbed the mic, and we dove head-first into mind-machinery questions that have haunted philosophers for two millennia. Is the red you see the red I see? Does your dog dream in first person? If AI wakes up, who counts as “us”? We built the Mind, AI & Consciousness Working Group to stop hand-waving and start reading papers—get the syllabus at mac.bc-ai.net and strap in for two-hour deep dives every couple months.

Michelle rolled in with Women × AI, fresh off a 45-person launch at Pavilion Cowork. Ticket cut funded one clean bathroom for a month at the DTES Women’s Centre. Sea-to-Sky dinner series next; third Tuesday every month—come ready to build and give back.

Surrey and Squamish crews are spinning up their own meetups. Same DNA, smaller circles, no tourist passes required. Surrey meets second Tuesday (this round it slipped to the third). Squamish sign-ups live now. Decentralise or die.

Cloud Summit Vancouver lands May 27 at the Orpheum. Community-run, corporate-funded, charity-powered. If Web Summit’s velvet rope shuts you out, this is the side door. Learn the cloud stack, rub shoulders with AWS and Nvidia, and funnel proceeds to local causes.

Books hit the table—Mollick’s Co-Intelligence, Kawasaki’s Think Remarkable, Tapscott on Web3, Manson’s anti-motivation bible, Goodman’s East-West hustle. Take one, bring two. Community library is open.

Patrick Penfather and Kevin’s UBC squad turned Runway, Sora, and Midjourney into short-films you can binge in the lobby. Pixel wizardry meets student hunger—ask them how they squeeze a story out of generative chaos.

Philippe Pasquier threw down a gauntlet: ditch corporate scrape-bots, train your own model on your own art, own the output. Two-day online bootcamp, free, Metacreation Lab at SFU. He’s also hauling in Revival, an AI-jam where algorithms improvise with live musicians—think Coltrane resurrected by code.

We dropped news that 40 people grabbed annual passes, birthing a member-based voting block I can wave in front of Innovate BC. Grassroots muscle in a province hunting for AI leadership.

Niels closed it out with a war story: rowboat startup, freight-ship problems, three-day insomnia, near head-on crash, hard lesson—scale at human speed or risk dying for someone else’s backlog. He’s open-sourcing his project-management stack so you can skip the wreck.

Venue note: observatory next door runs telescopes till 23:00. Show ends at 22:00. You get sky time, not just screen glow. Gear-donors dropped a Square/iPad rig and a ten-grand sound system; if you’ve got kit that serves the commons, step up.

Want in? Join Discord, pitch your demo, grab a volunteer slot, or buy a year-pass and get your name on the ledger. We move fast, but we sweep everyone into the slipstream.

See you next month. Bring a wild idea and proof you built it.