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The need for speed in technology
The French philosopher Paul Virillo was one of the first to point out the immanent and compelling logic of speed as a self perpetuating force shaping modernity whether it be in the context of warfare, transportation or communication. Speed forces itself on us and defines a new dimension through which power manifests itself. To account…
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AI’s reverse salient – enterprise integration
To understand the present situation it often helps to look at history even if our world and time seems so novel and so advanced that we can’t imagine anything in history could be similar to our current situation. Nevertheless, it seems worthwhile if not for anything other than to try to view the situation from…
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Is Superhuman Intelligence a Contradiction in Terms or Just an Ill-Conceived idea?
Much current concern revolves around when superhuman intelligence will come and what will happen to humanity once it does. As I have argued in my article The Hard Problem of AI and the Possibility of Social Robots, we are not presently making any progress on AGI because we have not yet started to address the…
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Large Language Models are dead, long live Small Language Models
The day when Artificial General Intelligence will suddenly flicker on as the manager turns on her computer ready to serve and allow the her to dispense with her minions and be left alone in silence with the coffee machine and the glorious view of an empty office in the low morning light is probably far…
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LLMs reveal not that they are human like, but that humans are machine like
In 2022, Blake Lemoine, an engineer employed by Google claimed that LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) a conversational AI built by Google, was actually sentient and essentially to be considered as human. He based this on LaMDA being able to express clear emotional statements. Such an ascription of sentience is not novel, but goes…
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A more powerful engine will not win the AI race
For the sake of argument, let’s say there really is an AI race. Countries and companies are perceived to be in this race to win and much fear revolves around falling behind in the AI race. Let’s dive deeper into this race analogy. To win a race you need an engine. For AI the engine…
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To the Moon – is AGI really inevitable?
Much current discussion revolves around when we will see Artificial General Intelligence and how that will affect us. The current edition of the Economist (July 26th 2025 edition) is dedicated to that topi. It reports how Investment centers around building ever bigger data centers to run ever bigger models on ever bigger amounts of data.…
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Virus, Fungus, Critter or Pet? – AI is not going to be human like anyway
Rather than speculate and debate intensely about Artificial General Intelligence or Superhuman Intelligence and whether or when it will take over the world, it may make sense to look more broadly at the different possible types of machine intelligence. If we apply artificial intelligence in a system responding to human input, such as doing a…
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Meditation #8 are we living in a simulation?
The idea that we are living in a computer simulation was popularized by the motion picture The Matrix in 1999. A more rigorous formulation was made by Philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003 in his paper Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? and is known by the name the Simulation Hypothesis. It is not a…
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What if AI was a professional soccer player?
Reading headlines one will marvel at the abilities of generative AI, but looking at the comparatively limited usage of generative AI in the industry, which is pretty basic, one is left wondering. The key question is if AI is so capable why hasn’t it already taken over everywhere? To understand this, imagine you are the…
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