by andflywrite | Dec 14, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER
AGI = A system that can do most of the cognitive things typical humans can do across many different tasks (not just one narrow domain). Think spectrum, not on/off. Minimal AGI vs Full AGI vs ASI Minimal AGI: broadly human-typical competence across most...
by andflywrite | Dec 12, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER
Shane Legg, Chief AGI Scientist and co-founder of Google DeepMind, has been talking about artificial general intelligence, or AGI, for more than a decade. So what’s changed? Shane Legg says that AGI is more about a field of study than a precise definition. It started...
by andflywrite | Dec 9, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER
The advent of AIs that think and write knowledgable essays applicable to varied contexts and projects… creates a NEW problem for authorship. ChatGPT5.1 offered to do an essay about PSA’s response to the challenging ideas in Shapiro’s Elite Capture of...
by andflywrite | Dec 6, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER
Shapiros’ essay was uploaded to ChatGPT 5.1 for analysis, and this seems a fruitful exercise when many “takes” and “opinions” are stated in an essay. Doing a sufficiently in depth research on those would be difficult and very time...
by andflywrite | Dec 5, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER
David Shapiro is a popular AI reporter, if you will, with regular YouTubes, Substacks, podcasts etc on the current state of AI. His opinions are his own, and not necessarily PSA’s, but they are generally thought provoking and valuable in a context where one...