A technical explainer argues that contemporary artificial intelligence, including large language models such as OpenAI's GPT-4, remains strictly computational and lacks genuine understanding or emotio…
A developer who was attending a full stack programming bootcamp in March 2021 delivered a presentation predicting the generative AI boom roughly 20 months before ChatGPT launched, showcasing the OpenA…
The AI effect describes how advances in artificial intelligence lead to a redefinition of intelligence, with successful AI systems reclassified as routine computation. Historian Pamela McCorduck noted…
Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at NYU Stern, argues that the AI debate has gone off track, with advocates and skeptics talking past each other. He notes that AI's explosive growth since ChatGPT…
Richard Sutton's 2019 essay 'The Bitter Lesson' argues that in artificial intelligence, general approaches that scale with computational power outperform domain-specific methods in the long run, as ex…
At Wikimania 2026, with 1,250 in-person and over 2,000 online attendees, the Wikimedia community grappled with AI as a paradigm shift, not just a tool. Hay Kranen, a 21-year Wikimedian and developer, …
A new project aims to build a single AI system that can teach itself to play any board game from just the rules and components, without game-specific programming. The effort is framed against 75 years…
A developer argues that the rise of AI coding tools, like language models that write functions and debug logic, mirrors the impact of chess engines on human play. Just as chess players adapted by trai…
Hudson River Trading (HRT), an algorithmic trading firm, applies artificial intelligence to financial markets by defining AI as a system that perceives its environment and acts to achieve goals. The f…
GPT-3 is not AGI but language modeling differs from other AI domains because natural language encodes a world model. Scaling language models may drive loss toward Shannon entropy, yielding a usable wo…
A historical analysis of AI hype cycles warns that current generative AI and agentic systems risk repeating past failures, as critics argue that scaling deep learning alone cannot achieve human-level …
Amazon has dropped the price of the unlocked 2TB Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max to its lowest ever, offering the renewed smartphone in Cosmic Orange, Silver, or Deep Blue. The deal provides a massive 2TB sto…