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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Lots of luddites in this thread. There's no putting this genie back in the bottle. We are at the dawn of a Cambrian explosion of intelligence. Frontier level models are finding novel solutions to decades-long unsolved maths problems. The only limits are compute power and even more simply, energy. See you guys in the singularity
Such as?
Because if you're talking about that recent proof of the Collatz conjecture, I've got bad news.
Also let me know when they figure out how to stop making stuff up, or at least to understand the difference between a sequence of tokens that represents a true fact and one that does not.