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TECHNOLOGY 21 June 2025 - A new paper from Apple shows even the most sophisticated reasoning models fundamentally lack genuine cognitive abilities. They collapse at consistent computational complexity levels due to reliance on probabilistic pattern matching that merely imitates the look and feel of intelligence. This paper demolishes some of the AI hype and validates what prominent researchers like Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun have been arguing —that current AI systems are sophisticated pattern-matching machines rather than thinking entities. Essentially little more than sophisticated predictive text generators. https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf

TECHNOLOGY 4 April 2025 - An AI model has reportedly passed the Turing Test, a feat of ingenuity not expected, at least according to Google Chief Engineer Ray Kurzweil, until 2045, when it was expected that AI would match or exceed human intelligence and, in essence, appear indistinguishable from human consciousness. In a study awaiting peer review, researchers report that in a three-party version of the Turing test, in which participants chat with a human and an AI at the same time and then evaluate which is which, OpenAI's GPT-4.5 model was deemed to be the human 73 percent of the time when it was instructed to adopt a persona. That's significantly higher than random chance, suggesting that the Turing test has resoundingly been beaten. The most catastrophic predictions warn that uncontrolled superintelligence could trigger the Singularity, potentially leading to human extinction or the complete loss of control over technologic…