AN OPEN NOTEBOOK BY ALEX MARPLES

Curiosity,
made tangible.

I’m Al. I build things with AI. Some useful, some wonderfully unnecessary. This is where the experiments, films and loose thoughts come together.

A lapsed engineer. A second act. Quite a few open tabs.

there’s usually something on the go An ink and lavender illustration of a workbench with a voice display, Alan’s room, a little round companion, electronics and an open notebook.

A few loose threads. Pick one up.

ON MY MIND

What happens when AI steps out of the chat window?

Follow the thread

01 / THE WORKSHOP

Built out of curiosity.

Voice, agents, little machines.
Different experiments. A few shared obsessions.

FOLLOW THE LOOSE THREAD

One thing leads
to another.

A helpful agent becomes a character. The character gets a room. Then a voice. Then, inevitably, there are wires all over the desk.

That’s usually how it starts.

02 / FIELD NOTES

Thinking out loud.

The things I’m trying, the things I’m learning,
and the questions that won’t leave me alone.

03 / THE SCREENING ROOM

Some ideas
need to move.

Small films about big ideas.
A couple of recent experiments made with Claude Fable.

WORDS, PICTURES & A LITTLE CODE

04 / ELSEWHERE IN THE INTERNET

The shorter version.

Quick observations, unfinished ideas and the occasional rabbit hole. You’ll find those on X.

@alex_marples
Alex Marples
@alex_marples

More loose threads,
in real time.

Loads content from X when you choose.
Open the conversation on X

THE PERSON BEHIND THE OPEN TABS

Al, short for Alex.

I’m a business leader, AI tinkerer, photographer, runner, dad and husband. I studied AI back in the late ’90s, then spent rather a long time doing other things.

Now the tools have caught up with the ideas. I’m building again, asking awkward questions, and seeing what happens when you give curiosity a bit of room.

Come and say hello
Still figuring
things out.

That’s rather
the point.