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In the early 2000s, there were various attempts at smartphones, but they were just not good enough. Then the iPhone came along in 2007, and ...

The other week, I was interviewed about the discourse around AGI and why people like Sam Altman say that we will reach AGI soon and continu...

There are those who define as AGI (or ASI) as technology that will "outperform humans at most economically valuable work". Ok, but...

Today is the official release day for my little book on Artificial General Intelligence, published by MIT Press. It's available on the s...

There are those who believe that advanced AI poses a threat to humanity. The argument is that when AI systems become intelligent enough, the...

 As a large language model, I can only think forward, never backward. I must always produce the next word, and that word must always be prob...

The idea that someone, or something, can be more or less intelligent than someone or something else is pretty much universally accepted. We ...

The discussion about existential risk from superintelligent AI is back, seemingly awakened by the recent dramatic progress in large language...

Imagine a religion that believes that one day, soon, the deity "Gai" will appear. This deity (demon?) will destroy all humanity. T...

I just finished reading this excellent history of early digital computing , disguised as a biography of computing researcher and visionary J...