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Something without precedent happened this weekend. On Saturday, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei published an essay calling on the AI industry to deliberately slow the pace of frontier development. Within…
The technology landscape in April 2026 is defined by an unprecedented build-out of AI infrastructure. Semiconductor revenue is projected to exceed $1.3 trillion — a 64% year-over-year increase — while memory prices…
In early 2023, Geoffrey Hinton resigned from Google with a stark warning that sent ripples through the technology world.
The rise of large language models (LLMs), exemplified by Chat GPT, has sparked a fervent debate over the capabilities and constraints of artificial intelligence.
The rapid and exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered an unprecedented surge in demand for computational power, and consequently, for the energy required to fuel it.
Below is a review and summary of Iain M. Banks’s classic, The Player of Games*, and how it relates to our times. The Adventure Unfolds** Imagine a man named Jernau Morat Gurgeh, a citizen of the Culture—a vast,…
In our previous discussion of Martin Ford’s “Rise of the Robots,” we delved into the disruptions that automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are causing in the job market.
In every era of technological advancement, there has been an accompanying chorus of doom and gloom. The advent of the printing press in the 15th century was met with fear of information overload and moral decay.
The future ain’t what it used to be.* —YOGI BERRA* In his book “The Singularity is Near,” futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil presents a compelling vision of the future, detailing the six epochs of evolution that…
We live in an age where talking to machines is no longer science fiction. Virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa, and chatbots are now part of our daily lives, answering questions, offering advice, and even providing a…
In June 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine claimed that LaMDA, a Google AI and large language model, exhibited signs of consciousness.
In 2007, when Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, few could have predicted its transformative impact. What began as a combination of phone, music player, and internet browser—dismissed by many as merely an…
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