A made-up example
A small museum. Its curator has three old things. Nobody knows how they’re connected.
A mended cup, an old ticket and a notebook of numbers on a shelf, with dashed lines and question marks between them.
Asking an AI. The curator wants a card that invites visitors to explore them.
The curator hands over a written request.
First try. The AI’s first try.
The AI writes a card: Tell the story that connects them.
Picture a visitor. They’d hunt for the right answer. There isn’t one.
An imagined visitor, drawn dashed, faces the card, and “the story” is underlined.
Rewritten by the AI, before anyone sees it.
The card now reads: Which two would you put together?
On show. A visitor puts the cup with the ticket. History, or a guess?
The card goes up in the gallery beside the objects, with a staff note. A visitor joins the cup and the ticket with a line and a question mark, and a staff member turns to it.
Written down. Staff write down the link.
A slip with the link goes on file, beside the card and the staff note.
What next? That link changes what the curator asks next. Or stop: this card may be enough.
A thread runs back to the curator’s request, which becomes three choices: Reword, New display, Stop.
Did it help? Writing the card is one thing. Finding out if it helped is another.
The view widens and the room goes dark, with threads still moving between every part of the story.