Togelius

In spring 2025 I had a crisis of faith.

What if the superpower of the future is self-discipline.

In the following, I will try sketch a way of thinking about human intelligence and human nature through emphasizing its difference from the various methods and systems we call artificial intelligence.

I read things, write things, and talk to people.

The scientific ecosystem is struggling to deal with AI-written papers, and this is a great opportunity to revisit how we publish, where, and why.

For most of my adult life, I was too cowardly to write this text, never mind posting it.

They say we should educate people about AI, because we all need to get good at using AI.

It is unavoidable that AI will be a major political issue soon.

I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS.

A thought experiment: What if every sufficiently expensive machine learning model was required to immediately be open-sourced?

Star Trek and The Culture are two of my favorite science fiction universes.

I remember being excited about AI.

Google DeepMind just announced Genie 3, their new promptable world model, which is another term for neural game engine.

It's an interesting exercise to think about jobs, or tasks within jobs, that could in principle be replaced by automation but for some reason aren't.

The library came alive, but it was not life.

I would like to say that predictions about the death of the lecture as a mode of knowledge transmission are as old as the lecture, but I don't think that's entirely accurate.

I am well-known enough that most LLMs know about me, but few know me well.

In the early 2000s, there were various attempts at smartphones, but they were just not good enough.

The other week, I was interviewed about the discourse around AGI and why people like Sam Altman say that we will reach AGI soon and continue towards superintelligence.

There are those who define as AGI (or ASI) as technology that will "outperform humans at most economically valuable work".

Today is the official release day for my little book on Artificial General Intelligence, published by MIT Press.

There are those who believe that advanced AI poses a threat to humanity.

As a large language model, I can only think forward, never backward.

The idea that someone, or something, can be more or less intelligent than someone or something else is pretty much universally accepted.

The discussion about existential risk from superintelligent AI is back, seemingly awakened by the recent dramatic progress in large language models such as GPT-4.