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Book review: The Infinite Machine: Demis Hassabis, Deep Mind, and the Quest for Superintelligence —Sebastian Mallaby, (New York, NY, USA. Penguin Press, 2026, xxi, 456 pp)

Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind, the lab startup where AlphaGo and AlphaFold were created. The latter won the Nobel Prize for Hassabis and his co-inventors. He truly is one of the most talented computer scientists of our age. This charming and best-selling book by Sebastian Mallaby, titled The Infinite Machine, provides insight into how Hassabis works …

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Artificial Intelligence and the Jevons Paradox

What can a nineteenth-century economist teach a twenty-first-century Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at one of the largest technology firms? More to the point, why is Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, quoting William Stanley Jevons? Jevons was a dominant figure in economic thought in Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century, but not today. His …

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After the Gold Rush

The commercial future of AI will soon be bigger than the actions of any firm, individual, research team, or open-source community. In the near term, a massive tailwind of potential use cases and nearly completed projects will determine the rate of progress in creating value for users and suppliers. Still, the source of the next …

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The AI Gold Rush

Large language models (LLMs) have overrun commercial markets, more like a tsunami than a normal technical wave of interest. The topic is everywhere –news stories, blogs, podcasts, startup investments, analyst reports, hackathons, and government announcements. A virtual frenzy surrounds it. If you possess a technical background, you might find this frenzy puzzling. The technological roots …

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