Better than humans? You decide. — Artificial intelligence is getting good at making art. Like, real good. Most people don’t realize that it’s already significantly better than humans in most respects. Of course, you probably don’t believe me. But that’s the thing about AI — it has a funny way of being in your rear view…

The artificial intelligence bomb that’s ticking closer with every second. — Modern AI is like a ticking time bomb. In the mid-1930s, before the potential of nuclear weaponry was widely realized, there was a sizeable cohort of scientists and researchers that understood the theoretical grounds by which a fission bomb could be created. They communicated in secret, hesitant to reveal this…

Social unrest, political upheaval, and mass unemployment are just a few of the things we have to look forward to. How do we prepare? — With artificial intelligence growing increasingly capable, humans will soon see a drastic change in their socio-economic status. Models like PaLM and DALL-E 2 will disrupt programming, writing, advertising, art, and design globally — markets estimated at trillion of dollars each.

The mechanization of thought is closer than most people believe. — From the early days of antiquity, humanity has grappled with the notion of machine thought. In early Greek myths that predate 500BCE, Talos, a giant automaton made of bronze, would patrol the shores of Europa each day. …

Starting yesterday, AI is now definitively better than human artists in almost every sense of the word. Here’s why human art & design is about to crumble. — On March 6th, 2022, OpenAI released DALL-E 2: their “new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language”. I don’t say this lightly: this new AI system is not just on-par with human artists. …