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The Return of the Oracle: Why AGI Invites a Priesthood—and How Not to Build One
In Alien (1979), only Dallas may query MOTHER. The crew waits outside the sanctum, dependent on his translation of what the ship’s computer reveals. The ritual is familiar: when societies encounter powerful, opaque systems, they summon intermediaries. The Pythia spoke; priests interpreted. Scripture existed; a Latin-literate clergy mediated. Early computing produced its own “computer priesthood”…
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Learning to Learn vs. Remembering in the Age of Ubiquitous Knowledge
The New Imperative: “Learning How to Learn” Google DeepMind’s CEO Demis Hassabis has argued that “learning how to learn” will be the most important skill for the next generation. Speaking at an event in Athens, he explained that the pace of AI-driven change makes continual adaptability essential. “The only thing you can say for certain…
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Checklists: Apple’s Game-Changing Approach to Aligning AI and Their Proven Impact Across Critical Fields
In the fast-evolving world of artificial intelligence, where large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Grok are becoming integral to our daily lives, ensuring these systems are both helpful and safe is paramount. A groundbreaking new study co-authored by researchers from Apple, titled “Checklists Are Better Than Reward Models For Aligning Language Models”, introduces a…
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AGI and Global Finance: Abundance and Instability
OpenAI has warned investors that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could disrupt economic systems so deeply that money itself may lose relevance. According to leaked investor materials, “it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-AGI world.” Yet, at the same time, the company is securing billions in funding—SoftBank valuing it…
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The Overwhelming Surge of AI Crawlers: Challenges, Offenders, and the Path Forward
In the digital age, websites serve as the backbone of information dissemination, commerce, and community building. However, a growing menace is undermining this ecosystem: the relentless activity of AI crawlers and fetchers. These automated tools, designed to scrape and retrieve data for training artificial intelligence models or generating real-time responses, are inundating servers with unprecedented…
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