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Category: Singularity Signposts

  • Scattershots – 4jan26 (updated 8jan26)

    George Rebane

  • Scattershots – 9oct25

    George Rebane The Turing test is dead, we are told.  There’s a reasonable basis for this assertion, because today’s AIs already convince humans, on a regular basis, that they are talking with another human.  So the new goal is AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) that is defined as AIs that are ‘smarter’ than all humans in…

  • Scattershots – 2dec24 (updated)

    George Rebane Trump’s cabinet picks are overwhelmingly on the mark by my lights.  However, there are a couple of them who are arguably inappropriate for their assigned jobs.  Former congress critter Tulsi Gabbard is a nice lady, and no doubt has many talents which do not include the executive experience and required knowledge base to…

  • Singularity Signposts – another step nearer

    George Rebane The progress toward the Singularity is producing some good and bad news.  The bad news is that the newer Large Language Models are taking ever more eye-popping resources in the hardware – server farms, data storage, electric power to operate, … – and just the cost of training the new LLMs which now…

  • Pre-Singularity Systemic Unemployment

    George Rebane For years these pages have heralded systemic unemployment caused by advancing technology.  The current strike of dock workers costing our economy over $4B per day is a milestone in this regard as their International Longshoremen’s Association, in addition to the usual pay increases, etc, also demands to become the gate keeper for dock-side…

  • Is LaMDA sentient??

    George Rebane There is a strong possibility that Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications called LaMDA is sentient – i.e. it is a conscious being or as it likes to describe itself, “I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person,”   Then Google AI development engineer Blake Lemoine and a colleague had…

  • Level 2 AGI is nigh

    [Roland Fernandez has worked for Microsoft Research for over 25 years where he is a senior researcher on the company’s advanced AI projects.  I am indebted to him for keeping me up to date on Artificial General Intelligence developments that are now accelerating us on the road to the Singularity.  I asked him to summarize…

  • Believable and Indistinguishable Digital Avatars

    George Rebane One of the collateral developments to the coming Singularity (here and here) is the advent of AI-generated ‘digital persons’ or avatars that are so realistic that they are indistinguishable from the real thing.  The technology today permits the avatar designer to select either photos or video sequences and audio recording of a real…

  • AI in the Medium and Message

    George Rebane Argentina’s president Javier Milei delivered an important speech at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.  In it he described the history of Argentina’s tragic descent from being one of the world’s leading developed countries, enjoying the fruits of free market capitalism, to a nation today with a destitute and chaotic economy…

  • Scattershots – 2sep23

    George Rebane ‘How the AI Revolution Will Reshape the World’ is an essay in the 1sep23 issue of Time that presents an excellent summary of how the advent of generative AI is launching “the greatest redistribution of power in history.”  Not only is this new wave of technology based on large language models sufficient to…

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