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
Where do we, humans, stand? The first AI courtroom controversy was about transparency. The real disruption begins later, when machines are trusted enough to argue, decide, and appeal, and humans must redefine what professional value and justice actually mean. The artificial lawyer had barely started speaking when the judge interrupted. “Hold on. Is that counsel for the case?” It was not. The man appearing before … Continue reading Agent Lawyer, Agent Judge
The hardest part of deploying AI at scale is turning out not to be intelligence. It is getting organizations to stop working against themselves. Thirty thousand AI agents sounds like the kind of sentence Silicon Valley likes to throw around before reality catches up. Except reality may already be catching up. Prosus, the global technology and ecommerce group, recently said it has deployed more than … Continue reading The Strange Thing Companies Are Learning From Thousands of AI Agents
… 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?
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