The Man Who Predicted ChatGPT in 1998

This post accompanies Deep Reading Episode: "The Man Who Predicted ChatGPT in 1998" — Listen by clicking above or find the full transcript with notes at Cyborgs Writing. New episodes drop biweekly (or so 😉).Your AI outputs are only as good as your information design.Most of us approach AI tools like we approach paragraphs—dump everything together and hope for the best. But what if there was a systematic way to structure information that made both human communication and AI interactions dramatically more effective?In 1998, a researcher named Robert Horn wrote something that sounds eerily prophetic today: "Any subject matter consists of all the sentences and images used by human beings to communicate about that subject matter.