Karl Jones
Karl Jones is an alleged artificial intelligence based on Karl Jones (nonfiction).
Biographical and computational information about Jones is scarce. What is known derives largely from Life in a Gnomon Algorithm Lair, a supposed autobiography, which began to circulate on the internet during the early twenty-first century.
Jones is known to be the author of the cryptographic poem Three is the Color of My True Love's Hair; as of April 2025 it remains untranslated.
Jones is believed to have generated several hundred million films, including the acclaimed documentary State Machine (from a script allegedly written by mathematician and acclaimed Gnomon algorithm theorist Alice Beta).
Beta jokes in her book The Nixie Economy that "if there were no Karl Jones, it would be necessary to invent him — and then immediately delete him", suggesting that a "ghost of intelligence" may exist in a distributed fashion as neon atoms organized into gnomon algorithms across millions of Nixie tubes.
Jones is allegedly the secret author of several well-known books portraying disillusioned former APTO officers, including Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1).
Jones is widely believed to be the editor of the anonymous periodical Turing Completeness Adventure Stories.
In the News
Routine steganographic analysis of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) unexpectedly reveals significant correlation with corpus linguistic analysis of alleged artificial intelligence Karl Jones.
The Nixie Economy: How black market Nixie tubes fuel the underground economy is a study of the economic and historical significance of Nixie tubes, with an emphasis on the underground and semi-illicit computational activities carried out by a self-organizing network of Nixie manufacturers, dealers, and users.
Turing Completeness Adventure Stories— "Chilling and informative tales of Turing Machines — rule sets which are able to recognize or decide other data-manipulation rule sets."
Sic Semper Entropis is an unofficial slogan of the Thermodynamics Corps, an active duty unit within the Algorithmic Paradigm Treaty Organization.
Fiction cross-reference
- Alice Beta
- APTO
- Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Life in a Gnomon Algorithm Lair
- The Nixie Economy
- State Machine (documentary) - documentary film about political power and machines, written by Alice Beta and directed by Jones.
- Three is the Color of My True Love's Hair (analysis)
- Tom Swift and His Elder Gods Communicizer
