Here’s the AGI question no one asks, which is also the one we’ll have to face first — “AGI has been achieved internally” has been the sentence of the week. It was cryptic and called out as bullshit when “Jimmy Apples” tweeted it out on September 18th. It was shocking, for good or bad, when Sam Altman echoed it in a Reddit comment a week later. …

Let’s be humble about what we ignore — but also about what we could know — One of the criticisms that might hurt AI the most is calling it unscientific. This is tricky because although it doesn’t necessarily deny the value of what ChatGPT or Midjourney can do, it labels them in a derogatory way as if implicitly putting them at the lower end of the…

You can now get high-quality images that depict complex scenes by default — Change of plans. I have the third part of the OpenAI series ready to publish but they just announced an unexpected release: DALL-E 3. It’s significant for three reasons. First, OpenAI has more than enough resources to combat Google and its other competitors on the language front while developing fantastic…

Recent history gives us a powerful and definitive reason for hope — By the year 2000 people worried that professional chess was doomed. Who would prefer inferior human games when IBM’s Deep Blue could beat then-world champion Garry Kasparov? Machines would get better and better: if they could already outmatch the best humans, what was the point? …

… — It’s 2023. You’ve spent four years (or five or six, you can’t remember), working on something — one big goal. You always knew what you wanted (the happy end of history, or so you liked to think). And you knew why you wanted it. …

ChatGPT is possibly the best and worst thing to ever happen to AI — This article is a selection from The Algorithmic Bridge (30% off for two more weeks), an educational newsletter to bridge the gap between AI, algorithms, and people. It will help you understand the impact AI has in your life and develop the tools to better navigate the future. Subscribe to The Algorithmic Bridge Tens of thousands of subscribers. Bridging the gap between AI and people. Join 16,000 others, including professionals…thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com

The researchers studied ChatGPT’s political bias, but independent analysis casts doubt on the methodology — AI makes headlines every day. Politics makes even more headlines every day, especially any news with the slightest partisan touch to it. No wonder the combination of the two attracts us like moths to a flame. This piece covers a topic I consider crucial if we are to build a…

The company lacks the computing power it needs — GPT-5 will have to wait. To the surprise of many, OpenAI reported in June that they were not yet training GPT-5. It’s not been confirmed if they have started as of August 26th. The good news is they filed a trademark application in July for “GPT-5" and developer Siqi Chen…

AI’s greatest lie and greatest success — The field of AI could have many names. “Artificial intelligence” is probably the less accurate of all — and also the reason why it’s so successful. Naomi Klein, an author, professor, and left-wing political activist, well-known for her books “The Shock Doctrine” and “This Changes Everything,” has recently turned her…