About Ernan Hughes
"I believe AI will become the primary way we interact with all information and technology."
Active Projects
💠 Prism
Prism is inspired by my recent research. It helps users track how they interact with AI splitting their thoughts, images, and results into visible layers, like a cognitive prism.
GitHub: Prism🕵️ Stephanie
Stephanie is a local assistant that constantly indexes all your ideas, files, and context bringing the right information into your current conversation automatically. It’s like having a memory-augmented subconscious AI.
🐙 GitHub: Stephanie📺 Too Much YouTube
This tool filters your YouTube subscriptions and transcripts to find only what’s truly relevant using your current session context to highlight key segments worth watching.
🐙 GitHub: Too Much YouTube🧬 Cognitive Assistant (Co)
This is an evolving experiment in building a true AI collaborator blending prompt templates, memory, reasoning, and rhythm. It ties into the theories behind Freestyle Cognition and powers many of the book’s sessions.
🐙 GitHub: CoThis isPublications
Freestyle Cognition:
A New Way of Thinking and Building with AI
Agent Architectures:
Advanced Strategies for Intelligent LLM Systems
Current Book
Right now, I'm building Applied AI this very website as a real-time demonstration of freestyle cognition. It's a living example of how AI can be used to amplify human projects, creativity, and momentum.
Research
My recent paper, Cross-Modal Cognitive Mapping, explores a method for modeling human thought by linking language, visual generation, and user selection behavior. The framework aims to better understand how people conceptualize ideas across cultures and individuals, with potential applications in AI alignment, cognitive science, and personalized systems. Read the paper here: Prompting Frameworks for Cognitive Collaboration with AI.
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Mission
To explore the frontier where human imagination and machine intelligence meet and to help others do the same.