André Brito

You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump.

This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.

They need to convince investors that AI is worth it before people realise that the bubble could actually burst (or at least deflate). Those data centers aren't going to pay themselves.

Trump says he’ll free infrastructure funds for New York if Penn Station is renamed after him Trump also demanded Dulles airport be given his name in exchange for funding NY-NJ tunnel and subway extension

So, this is what true altruism looks like....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Framing human intelligence (our reference) as compute is part of the problem, though. The physical body needs stuff, and consciousness translates that into what needs to be done (and how). Compute is only part of it.

A big takeaway was the disproportionate amount of energy the models used when complexity of the problems increased (not just the problem itself, but the absence of an existing answer in their DB), and then how they "gave-up" resources counterintuitively.

I agree "never" [will LLMs build up to full fledge AGI] is too strong a word, and AGI could be a scientific black Swan, eventually. But if that eventually is in 50 years, I would wager AGI will stem from different tech to LLMs, which is why I can't dismiss it. But hey, you might be right. Good chat!

Based on the tensions this is causing, the fact that money invested in AI isn't an endless stream, and the public sentiment (jobs lost, feeling like a reverse-centaur or machine servant...), my guess is that we'll see more of Sam Altman insisting that the "G" in AGI is not so important.

There's no definite definition of "intelligence", the Turing test has been passed by LLMs, yet we know they're not yet "intelligent". And to get here, data centres are already siphoning enough electricity to power small towns (not to mention water). So, at this rate, something will have to give.

The paper is evidence of a particular plateau at a point in time. And GPT 3.5's retirement - when its launch was hyped as if we were on the cusp of AGI - showed how much of LLMs capacity was more aspirational than real. But there's more.

Of course. But, as things stand, evidence still backs that assertion more than LLMs building up to AGI. This paper is good at showing how very far from it we are (and again, we aren't even debating the "consciousness" bit): www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...

Until AGI is achieved, it's just a claim. Nobody has to claim it doesn't exist until it does. That's how the burden of proof works. Otherwise, we go on a rhetorical circle. In the meantime, those (so far) false claims have cost actual jobs and the environment. Questioning their validity doesn't.

But hypothetical claims can not be equated to evidence, right? It's the whole onus of proof that lies in the claimant. And right now, "AGI" is not living up to the hype, and that hype already cost a lot of jobs and livelihoods with little to show for, as far as "intelligence" goes.

It's also the fact that biological intelligence and conscience are very different, elusive concepts (no definite definition for either), with millions of years of evolutionary iterations. That alone should warrant caution over claims that silicon-based, resource-intensive compute is anywhere close.

Thanks for the reply and follow (just followed back). And excellent article, by the way. I'm sharing it with my students 🙂

I was thinking, specifically, about clients the article mentions as "already here", i.e. actual users. Why they're not returning is likely a painpoint (or more) in the current journey. Mkt can ask customers what's wrong, but so can UX designers. With the added benefit that they can also fix it.

May I respectfully suggest that, before working on marketing, you should try to improve your User Experience (UX) design, as it tackles exactly the issues you mention, but from users' perspective?

World Economic Forum + Add to myFT Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Al boom could falter without wider adoption

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has warned that Al risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies. Nadella on Tuesday said that the long-term success of the fast-developing technology would depend on it being used by a broad range of industries as well as on uptake outside of the developed world. "For this not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread," said Nadella. He noted that a "tell-tale sign of if it's a bubble" would be if only tech groups were benefiting from the rise of AI, rather than companies in other sectors.

Microsoft CEO says AI “risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.” Brother you’re the one building this dogshit, we’re three years and hundreds of billions in, how have you not worked it out?

www.ft.com/content/2a29...

OpenAI has absolutely zero ideas. They have no business. This is not a real business line and it’s so utterly vague and specious, I’m shocked at the credulousness to just print it without saying “there is no logical way this works of course” or talking about how the CFO of OpenAI is saying nonsense

The more reverse centaurs they make out of people, the less time people waste in unhealthy behaviours like, you know, thinking, or writing about AI bubble bursts/deflation!

Veronika 🏆🧪 BEST SCIENCE COW
(strongly advise you watch the adorable video)

Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants Children as young as 18 months can acquire novel words by overhearing third-party interactions. Demonstrating similar learning processes in nonhuman species would indicate that the social-cognitive sk...

New study finds that some dogs are able to learn new words from overhearing conversations not directed at them, with a facility comparable to that of 18-month old human infants.

🧪🐋🌱

Bank of England ‘must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens’ Financial markets could collapse if the American government confirms the existence of alien life

Bank of England ‘must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens’
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Imagine those aliens landing on earth, beaming out of their ship in front of the human delegation, and saying: "Have you released the Epstein Files?"

This is figure 1, which shows models undergoing different types of task-specific finetuning exhibit broader misaligned behaviour.

A paper in Nature suggests that artificial intelligence models that are trained to behave badly on a narrow task may generalize this behaviour across unrelated tasks, such as offering malicious advice. go.nature.com/4jFIRcc 🧪

Tory governments spent £325m on free schools that failed or disappeared More than £10bn was committed to building new schools between 2014-15 and 2023-24, compared with £6.8bn for rebuilding existing schools

That's what "people are fed up of experts" looks like.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’

Basically: "Blah, blah, blah", then “opening European markets to US goods and services” - substandard food, i.e "health" providers to rip-off national health services, and siphoning public infrastructure money to the US, plus great replacement BS.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”

Daisy Cooper

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications

Water reserves are drying up, so let's build some massive data centres to dry them up faster! Go big or go broke, right?!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump blasts Ukraine for ‘zero gratitude’ as Germany says deal to end war unlikely to be reached by Thursday deadline – live Chancellor Friedrich Merz says ‘we are still a long way from that’ as Trump blasts Ukrainian leadership on social media

Trump: "I inherited a war that should never have happened...." Dude, you inherited nothing! We - Europeans - but Ukrainians more than anyone else, inherited Russia's abuse, partly because of you couldn't stand up to Putin. BAD president!

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...