AI is learning to think. This isn’t science fiction—it’s happening now. And it’s reshaping the world faster than we can comprehend. Many AI headlines are pure sensationalism, a hyperbolic series of contradictory scenarios coming at us one after the other. On one end of the spectrum, the flags are flaming red, with skeptics warning of existential threats and looming dystopian catastrophes...
Some years back, I wrote a couple of articles on creativity for an online music magazine. The views I expressed in them haven’t changed much, so I still share them from time to time. In December of 2023, Google opened up general access to their NotebookLM project—an experimental AI-powered research and note-taking tool that can play the part of a very capable research assistant. This includes...