Demis Hassabis has recently opined that we are nowhere near AGI. Has dear colleague Gary Marcus been vindicated? It would be fairer to state that LLM-based AI has hit a wall, if not deep learning itself. The methodology is simply
Has AI Hit a Wall?
Labor Automation with AI
Analysis Report Summary: Current Trends Date: March 19, 2026 Source: Analysis of recent market and labor reports. This document summarizes key findings from recent analysis reports on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on labor automation, covering market growth, job
The Great Intelligence Deficit
We have old ways, and humble expectations. Let that not sway us from the path that leads to abundant intelligence. What we suffer from is intelligence deficit, not excess intelligence. My position on the matter is that our civilization lacks
Inspirational Quotes for the AI Hacker
I was making a selection of quotes that I truly adore, and this came out: “We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself”― Carl Sagan “If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create
How I Became an AI Hacker
This is the short story of how I became an AI hacker, or how I came to realize I had become one. I have felt some people tell varieties of my story as if their own, so I thought you
Slaughterbots – AI scare PR gone wrong
This film is merely bad science fiction, nothing more. Sure, we could build such bots, but the scenario is absurd. Would banning any kind of weapon control system prevent terrorists from using it? That itself is a basic error of
Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Here is yesterday’s presentation to Türk Bilişim Vakfı (Turkish Informatics Foundation) titled AI Revolution that merges some insights from previous papers and talks with some new bits thrown in. In this presentation, I examine the revolutionary changes that the
Censored Criticism on the Wikipedia Article About AI Eschatology
AI doomsayer charlatans (such as Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nick Bostrom, Elon Musk and their various minions and shills) have been spreading Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt about the AGI field for over 7 years, and it is time to reveal what they do
In Defense of Jim Carrey’s Anti-Personality Stance
I witness with amazement how the common village folk find the oddly smart actor Jim Carrey’s denouncement of the Platonic ideal of Self and Personhood. Jim Carrey, it seems, has reached a philosophical level of consciousness occupied seldomly by actors,
Revised Code Size Estimates for Examachine Releases
This post is in reference to Celestial Intellect Cybernetics’s AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) Platform called Examachine. Examachine’s core is a “parallel AGI kernel” which presents a generic programming API implementing parallel incremental general-purpose machine learning algorithms for heterogeneous supercomputers, and
Ultimate Intelligence Part III: Measures of Intelligence, Perception and Intelligent Agents
The third installation of the ultimate intelligence series was submitted to AGI-2017. Unfortunately, it was not received very well by the reviewers whom found fault with my paraphrasing of the conclusions of Karl Friston’s free energy principle research program. Here
Simulation Argument and Existential AI Risk
The combination of simulation argument and existential AI risk nonsense can be aptly described as new age creationism. Claiming that AGI technology will destroy “humanity” with 20-30% probability was a rather comical maneuver by the arch-creationist Bostrom. I understand that
Labor Automation Concepts
In recent posts, I haphazardly introduced some taxonomical terms when speaking about labor automation. Here are some classification dimensions we may use. low/high intelligence-intensive task: A task may demand a low degree of intelligent thinking to solve a problem, or
Marvin’s Unforgettable Interview
Marvin Minsky was a great scientist, inventor and philosopher. He is one of my three idols: Marvin Minsky, Carl Sagan and Ray Solomonoff. I learnt much of what I needed to know about human-like AI from his books. This 2010 interview with
A suggestion to our Davos elites
My personal work is replacing data scientists with human-level AI. Imagine what we can do if we can replace statisticians. It was us, scientists, who made those very developments in AI, and robotics that you elites so abstractly talked about
What I learnt during my PhD studies
During my PhD, I was unfortunate to have to work with an advisor who had no sympathy for scientific and intellectual work. Strange, as it may sound, he advised me in the wrong direction and intentionally prolonged my PhD and
Labor Automation Trends
As we transition from AI Spring to AI Summer, we are witnessing a massive paradigm shift across several industry sectors. The current phase of labor automation seems centered around automation of low intelligence-intensive high-regularity jobs. These presently include clerks of
What To Do After AI Based Labor Automation?
This common question was asked on quora. Here goes a semi-jocular reply. You will need to invest capital mostly. In a capitalist system, labor automation means what it means, only capital works from that point on. Sorry to say such
In Response to Rocket AI Gimmick
The Rocket AI hoax, which purportedly showed that investors should not buy into AI “hype”, was proudly promoted here. The problem here is that neither Anders Sandberg nor Riva-Melissa Tez can tell if an AI startup’s tech is novel. That is
Bayesian Program Learning Papers Seem Inspired by my Heuristic Algorithmic Memory Design
The first “Bayesian Program Learning” paper used a strange term called “Bayesian Program Merging”. A colleague sent me the link of the paper about 2-3 years ago, he had found the paper while he was searching for one of my