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    Tech

    AI and its Hype Men.

    Large Language Models have come a long way. Do they presage the imminence of AGI? Artificial Intelligence is being talked about so much that I am swamped with this information on Twitter. Whenever I check on my timeline I encounter at least one thread based on it. Perhaps I follow such interesting people who are bullish about it. Some even predict that we are just few years away from the oncoming of Artificial General Intelligence. I read this interview published in IEEE Spectrum of on Rodney Brooks which gave me another, a more skeptical perspective about the imminence of AGI. It is a fun conversation to read. Brooks does not…

  • Science

    Conscious Robots.

    The development of machine consciousness is a goal that is seen as the ultimate challenge in the field of artificial intelligence, according to Hod Lipson, the mechanical engineer in charge of the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University. Consciousness is a controversial topic within the field of AI, and has been a contentious issue for a long time, with scientists divided on the possibility of creating machines that have consciousness on par with a human. Lipson believes that creating a machine that has consciousness on par with a human will be the most significant achievement in the field of AI and will eclipse everything else that has been done so…