AI chronicles

Niantic’s journey from a government-backed startup to a leading augmented reality company is marked by significant milestones. Founded as Keyhole Inc. in 2001 by John Hanke, who previously held a position in foreign affairs within the U.S. government, the company initially focused on geospatial data visualization. Keyhole received early funding... See more

But what really blows my noodle is how rare AI skepticism still is in the media. One year ago, ChatGPT was opened to the public. The onslaught of overheated and careless rhetoric about our imminent ascent to a new plane of existence (or our imminent extermination) began then and has not slowed since. It’s inherent to the financial interests of... See more

Since the 1950s, discussions about AI have largely revolved around a big, tantalizing question: What can machines do, and where might they hit a wall? Will they ever truly think, understand, or maybe even become conscious? Could they reach the so-called “heights of human intelligence”? And then there’s that shadowy question looming in the

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To understand AI algorithms, Vallor argues we should not regard them as minds. “We’ve been trained over a century by science fiction and cultural visions of AI to expect that when it arrives, it’s going to be a machine mind,” she tells me. “But what we have is something quite different in nature, structure, and function.”

Rather, we should imagine... See more

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.