The End of General Compute
Why artificial collective intelligence needs smaller, bounded units of computation closer to the domains they serve.
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A Secure Operating System for Collective Intelligence
We stand today at an inflection point in the history of computing. Autonomous AI agents are being deployed at high speed, spawning powerful, increasingly multimodal systems, able to operate across email, documents, apps, codebases, the open web, and shared digital environments. This looks like the long-awaited transition from single-process software to multi-process computing: workflows that […]
The Age of Information Overload
Scroll, Snack, Repeat We live in a time of information abundance. It has become as plentiful—and as carefully engineered to exploit our every weakness—as modern processed food. The more content is optimized to manipulate our attention, the more our cognitive patterns are hijacked. Digital platforms are not only distracting; they reshape what we pay attention […]
AI-to-AI Communication: Unpacking Gibberlink, Secrecy, and New AI Communication Channels
AI communication channels may represent the next major technological leap, driving more efficient interaction between agents—artificial or not. While recent projects like Gibberlink demonstrate AI optimizing exchanges beyond the constraints of human language, fears of hidden AI languages must be correctly debunked. The real challenge is balancing efficiency with transparency, ensuring AI serves as a […]
Life After Programming: Embracing Human-Machine Symbiosis in the Age of AI
As AI continues to evolve, conversations have started questioning the future of traditional programming and computer science education. The rise of prompt engineering—the art of crafting inputs to lead AI models to generating specific outputs—has led many to believe that mastering this new skill could replace the need for deep computational expertise. While this perspective […]
The Innovation Algorithm: DeepSeek, Japan, and How Constraints Drive AI Breakthroughs
In technology, less can truly be more. Scarcity doesn’t strangle progress—it refines it. DeepSeek, cut off from high-end hardware, and Japan, facing a demographic reckoning, are proving that limitations don’t merely shape innovation—they accelerate it. From evolutionary biology to AI, history shows that the most profound breakthroughs don’t originate from excess, but from the pressure […]
Limited AGI: The Hidden Constraints of Intelligence at Scale
In his recent blog post The Intelligence Age, a few days ago, Sam Altman has expressed confidence in the power of neural networks and their potential to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI—some strong form of AI reaching a median human level of intelligence and efficiency for general tasks) given enough compute. He sums it up […]
Artificial Life
At a point in time when technology and biology appear to converge, can we decode the mysteries of life grounded in either realm, through the lens of science and philosophy? Bridging between natural and artificial seems to challenge conventional wisdom and propel us into a wild landscape of new possibilities. Yet, the inquiry into the […]
Redefining our relationship with AI: shifting from alignment to companionship
As the AI landscape keeps updating itself at the greatest speed, so does the relationship between humans and technology. By paying attention to the autopoietic nature of this relationship, we may work towards building ethical AI systems that respect both the unique particularities of being a human, and the unique emerging qualities that our technology […]
Symbiotic AI: fear not, for I am your creation
This opinion piece was prompted by the recent publication of Stephen Hawking’s last writings, where he mentioned some ideas on superintelligence. Although I have the most utter respect for his work and vision, I am afraid some of it may be read in a very misleading way. I’ve been pondering whether or not I […]
How hyperconnected AIs can invent new languages to learn faster than ever
In this post, I write about the problem of sphere packing and augmented communication in the future of the bio- and technosphere. Previously, I approached the topic of transitions in intelligence. I developed in some detail how minimal living systems becoming distributed can accelerate the evolution towards higher levels of intelligence, by bootstrapping the learning […]
Transitions in distributed intelligence
What is intelligence? How did it evolve? Is there such thing as being “intelligent together”? How much does it help to speak to each other? Is there an intrinsic value to communication? Attempting to address these questions brings us back to the origins of intelligence. Intelligence back from the origins Since the origin of life […]