4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1474+ words) By Matthew ParishWednesday 9 September 2026There is an increasingly fashionable proposition in discussions about artificial intelligence that humanity ought to stop for a while. Artificial intelligence is developing so quickly, the argument runs, that governments, societies and even the scientists constructing the…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (1547+ words) Monday 7 September 2026 Artificial intelligence presents us with the possibility that intelligence will cease to be scarce. Artificial general intelligence threatens to overturn that division of labour. If machines can eventually reason better than we can, acquire knowledge faster than we…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (975+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 Perhaps this tells us something important. The problem may not principally be that artificial intelligence has failed to become general. It may be that we never decided what “general intelligence” meant in the first place. What is AGI…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1154+ words) Tuesday 25 August 2026 Nevertheless it may prove considerably more important than consciousness. A machine need not possess a soul in order to become extremely good at debugging itself. This inconsistency matters because there are really three different capacities involved. The first…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (612+ words) Monday 24 August 2026 ⁠ChatGPT and OpenAI remains the standard against which other general-purpose artificial intelligence products are commonly judged, partly because it established the modern consumer market for conversational artificial intelligence and partly because OpenAI has persistently attempted to combine reasoning,…...