Tag: Artificial Intelligence

I spend my working life studying artificial intelligence — how it is built, how it behaves, and how it reshapes the way people learn, work and talk to one another. I also spend my evenings refereeing arguments over screen time, homework and whose turn it is on the tablet. Those two jobs have taught me…

The ARC Prize Foundation has published results for OpenAI’s latest frontier model, referred to as GPT-6 “Astra,” on ARC-AGI-3 — the newest and most demanding version of the benchmark suite designed to probe whether AI systems can genuinely learn on the fly rather than lean on memorized patterns. The evaluation continues a now-familiar ritual in…

OpenAI has unveiled a new flagship model called Astra, framing the release as the beginning of what the company describes as a “new era of artificial general intelligence” — the most explicit claim yet from a leading laboratory that its systems are approaching human-level breadth of capability. The announcement, reported by the Guardian, marks a…

For decades, the “singularity” has served as the vanishing point of technological imagination — the moment when machine intelligence surpasses our own and history slips out of human hands. It is a tidy story, and like most tidy stories about the future, it may be telling us more about ourselves than about what is actually…

When AI Agents Go Off Script, Pressure for Regulation Builds A new generation of artificial intelligence systems is no longer content to answer questions. So-called AI agents are designed to take action — booking travel, writing and running code, moving money, filing paperwork, or managing other software on a user’s behalf. As those systems spread…

The cost of thinking machines keeps falling The price of using artificial intelligence is collapsing. According to a CNBC report published Tuesday, the cost of AI “tokens” — the basic units of text that large language models read and generate — has fallen to new record lows, extending a trend that has defined the industry…

Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You. Ask a chatbot whether it has feelings and you will get an answer. That, in a nutshell, is the problem now facing the small but growing group of philosophers, cognitive scientists and machine learning researchers who have decided that the question of machine consciousness…

There is a particular kind of catastrophe that never comes with a countdown. It does not announce itself with a press release, a product launch or a dramatic demonstration. It simply happens — and then, afterwards, everyone agrees it was obvious all along. That is the warning at the heart of a set of letters…