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Record W4407704700 · doi:10.1080/14790726.2025.2457418

CentAIrus: the return of the centaur and the history of futures past

2025· article· en· W4407704700 on OpenAlex
Suk Kyoung Choi

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueNew Writing · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicScientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCentaurFutures contractHistoryArtEconomicsFinancial economicsClassics

Abstract

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This brief experimental text explores metaphors of recognition in a computational poetics of generative AI imagery. Artificial intelligence (AI) is framed as a transitional entity initializing a journey through a latent space of algorithmic self-reflection, mediating the emergent polarities of chaos and cosmos. The conflation of text and image engages with the conflict between linear temporality and speculative futurism that creative process attempts to bring into alignment in the epistemology of composition. The image informs the text, and the text informs the image in an iterative cycle of anticipation and reflection. Employing the myth of the Centaur and its resonance with AI image development, the text questions the legitimacy of boundary schema in latent space. The hybrid beast-human offers an origins story of possible futures of the manifest image poised at the interstice of analog human and digital machine intention, where (algorithmic) abstraction turns imagination to representation and representation determines what humans may become under the recursive watch of AI. Drawing from poet C. P. Cavafy and conceptual metaphor theory this postphenomenological intervention aims to expose alignments between pre-technological mythology and posthuman mythocracy in a narrative trace through the subjective madness of pareidolic familiarity in the age of technic imagination

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.669
Threshold uncertainty score0.256

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it