One of the most fascinating aspects of AI is how it forces humans to look into the mirror and figure out what we have created in our mirror image. This week the world of AI is again confronting that old question: Is AI conscious or not, and should humans treat it as personhood in a moral and ethical sense?
Most people who have used AI so far have done it through something like ChatGPT or Gemini. These are good AI chatbots but terrible AI agents unless you are extremely tech savvy. Mark Zuckerberg and Meta, however, have a plan to solve it with Muse. For now they are succeeding.
This week, the world continued to talk about the perils of AI when it comes to humanity. But beyond the big picture, there is one aspect of AI that jolted us all in India in recent days – the unspoken shame attached to AI use and how a tragedy at IIT-B brought it into focus in the last few days.
Earlier this year at the AI Summit, PM Narendra Modi tried to make arch-rivals OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei hold hands. The two did not, resulting in an awkward moment. But this week the two CEOs, at least metaphorically, joined hands after Jacob Coxon started his talk of AI killing all humans. This and more, read on.
Two new major AI models were released last week: Anthropic Claude Mythos 5.1 and OpenAI GPT-6 Astra. Of the two, Astra turned the world upside down and shocked us, at least until we humans get our bearings back and adjust to new realities, which should happen in a few weeks or so.
Until now we have heard Chinese AI companies are around 6 to 12 months behind OpenAI and Anthropic. The recent weeks show that it no longer holds true. In fact, in some ways, the Chinese AI companies are now ahead of the US tech giants.
