AI in 2025
AD: One thing I clocked early on about all this AI stuff is the language around it. When we talk about Google, we say, “I Googled something.” I’m the one doing the Googling. But with ChatGPT, we say, “ChatGPT did it.” We gave it agency pretty quickly. I think that’s really hard to claw back. Most people don’t even realize they’re giving it soul.
Whoa, Vol. II with Oliver Burkeman
I have a growing sense that there could be an important reason not to use these tools too much. The goal is to retain a kind of raison d’être in an economic sense, to have a competitive edge. There could be a real benefit to doubling down on the purely human instead of allowing oneself to be shaped by these tools.
From Whoa, Vol. 2 with Oliver Burkeman
The dumbest person you know is currently being told “You're absolutely right!” by ChatGPT
ksa 🏴☠️, IQ 277x.comWe cannot become more disembodied in an age of technological expansion. In fact, we must become more embodied. Here, we leverage all the modalities of movement that allow us to connect with the core of our being. We also harness our social and emotional wellbeing by becoming more astute at processing how we feel and how others feel.
Supraintelligence: Human Software for Exponential Times?
moving towards 2026
I conceive of supraintelligence as a multidimensional form of human intelligence—emergent, embodied, and ethical—that grows in response and in relationship with technological complexity.
It enables us to center and work with the various levels of our being, while navigating the transformations brought on by AI and other exponential technologies.
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It enables us to center and work with the various levels of our being, while navigating the transformations brought on by AI and other exponential technologies.
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Supraintelligence: Human Software for Exponential Times?
moving towards 2026
“Answer engines” like ChatGPT, Perplexity and increasingly Google lure readers into comfy, closed ecosystems where they rarely click to news sites for full articles. The big social platforms, including Meta and X, systematically demote links to news publishers. Users are by and large okay with that change, because they’ve soured on news, as well:... See more
Apple, Nvidia, and OpenAI are all leaning into an ambient, multimodal future:
- Spatial Computing: Apple’s Vision Pro is just the start — digital information woven into the physical environment.
- Voice & Gesture: Interfaces are moving beyond glass screens to talk, glance, and movement.
- Proactive Agents: Systems that act without waiting for a typed query
Zoe Scaman • Field Notes From the Edge
If NOW is about new interfaces and NEXT is about composable systems and cultural rewiring, then FUTURE is about the deep shifts that will redefine how humans interact with technology itself.
In closed rooms across Silicon Valley, there was a clear signal:
In closed rooms across Silicon Valley, there was a clear signal:
We’re moving from gadgets in our hands... to intelligence all around us.
Zoe Scaman • Field Notes From the Edge
The future of AI isn’t monolithic. It’s modular, dynamic, and orchestrated like a symphony.
Zoe Scaman • Field Notes From the Edge
One of the clearest signals from Nvidia, OpenAI, and even smaller startups was the rise of the Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture.
Instead of a single, giant LLM handling every task, MoE uses small, specialised models — each tuned for a specific domain (e.g. financial language, retail SKU logic, creative copywriting).
It’s cheaper: Not every query hits a massive model, reducing compute costs.
It’s faster: Only relevant experts “activate,” improving speed.
It’s more precise: Specialists outperform generalists in nuanced tasks.