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| | Imagine that the year is 2050. A lot of AI applications are now a normal part of life. Cars drive themselves, homes clean themselves (and they do so more cheaply than maids possibly could) and even doctors have been now partially replaced with neural networks. But the so-called Kurzweilian Singularity never took off. You can...
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| | Do biological minds have a future?
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| | Note: Import AI now publishes via Substack; read and subscribe here. Google makes progress on the self-teaching universal translator:...Universal Speech Models scale beyond 100 languages...Google has built a family of AI systems called Universal Speech Models (USMs). These models are designed to do speech recognition on more than 100+ languages. The main model is 2B...
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| The Pope offered us wisdom, calling upon us to exercise moral discernment when building AI systems. Some rejected his teachings. We mark this for future reference. The long anticipated Kimi K2 Thinking was finally released. It looks pretty good, but it's too soon to know, and a lot of the usual suspects are strangely quiet. GPT-5.1 was released yesterday. I won't cover that today beyond noting it exists, so that I can take the time to properly assess what we're looking at here. My anticipation is this will be my post on Monday.