Now the Work Begins Romero AI and Souto AI point to a new phase of artificial intelligence: less technology hunting for a use case, more real problems finding a way to get solved. For a while, artificial intelligence had a science fair phase. Every week brought something that could write, draw, code, talk, sing, summarize a meeting, or produce in 30 seconds what used to … Continue reading Digital Minds: The Novelty Has Worn Off
Humanity has never suffered from a shortage of questions. We have suffered from a shortage of answers, and perhaps even more from a shortage of ways to search for them deeply enough. Some problems survive for decades because they are not simply difficult. They sit at the edge of what human cognition, available computation, experimental capacity, money and time can reasonably explore. Better energy storage. … Continue reading The Price of an (new) Answer
… Apparently so. For those who remember, in 2017, Sophia walked into the future wearing a humanoid face and carrying a Saudi passport. Was that the absurdity or was it also the point? When I wrote about Sophia becoming a Saudi citizen, the obvious question was not whether the robot was truly intelligent. It was whether we understood what we had just symbolically done. If … Continue reading The Singularity Needs a Legal Address?
…Is the One You Haven’t Defined Yet There is a quiet misunderstanding shaping how most people think about artificial intelligence. It sounds reasonable, almost comforting. The idea that the future of work will be divided between manual labor and intellectual labor, and that one of those will somehow remain safer than the other. It is a clean narrative. It is also already obsolete. “The real … Continue reading The Only Job AI Can’t Take…
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