The current wave of artificial intelligence, spurred on by the power of attention and the development of large language models using various transformer architectures, holds promise of being the key to accelerating solutions to the toughest questions known to man.
AI may also accelerate the clock on our demise as a species.
Lastly, it may very well do nothing significant. We stand at the precipice of history, writ in real time. Here's my take on it.
Cover: AI rendition of the Technocore, a powerful, enigmatic collective of artificial intelligences presented in Dan Simmon's sci-fi epic, The Hyperion Cantos.