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Newton’s Views on Space, Time, and Motion
By Robert Rynasiewicz, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/newton-stm/

Life rocks – What can meteorites tell us about life on and beyond earth
By Philip Ball, Aeon, 18 March 2016
https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-meteorites-tell-us-about-life-on-and-beyond-earth

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.
By Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review, March 4, 2024
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/04/1089403/large-language-models-amazing-but-nobody-knows-why/

What is AI? ​
Everyone thinks they know but no one can agree. And that’s a problem.
By Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review, 10-07-2024
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/10/1094475/what-is-artificial-intelligence-ai-definitive-guide/

What is intelligent life?
By Abigail Desmond and Michael Haslam, Aeon, 17-06-2024
https://aeon.co/essays/why-intelligence-exists-only-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder

The Gods of Logic​
Before and after artificial intelligence
By Benjamín Labatut, Harper’s Magazine, July 2024
https://harpers.org/archive/2024/07/the-gods-of-logic-benjamin-labatut-ai/

A sliver of reality
Science and mathematics may never fully capture the physical universe. Are there hard limits to human intelligence?
By David H Wolpert, Aeon, 05-09-2022
https://aeon.co/essays/ten-questions-about-the-hard-limits-of-human-intelligence

Tillosophy: What about consciousness?
By Anil Gomes, London Review of Books, 20-06-2024
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/anil-gomes/tillosophy

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter, 22 March, 2023
Future of Life Institute, 22-03-2023
https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/

California’s divisive AI safety bill sets up tough decision for governor Gavin Newsom
Financial Times, 29-08-2024
https://www.ft.com/content/352b9cdb-9ed9-4dc9-94f3-115cab988c21

What caused the huge global IT outage?
Financial Times, 19-07-2024
https://www.ft.com/content/f64383d2-89c7-459a-afce-5c659473050f

Delta says CrowdStrike IT outage will cost airline $500mn
Financial Times, 31-07-2024
https://www.ft.com/content/dba1cb7a-46b1-4f94-b596-432e7d899f8d

Problem-solving matter
Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process
David C Krakauer, Aeon, 17-09-2024
https://aeon.co/essays/is-life-a-complex-computational-process

8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story
They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history.
Steven Levy, Wired, 20-03-2024
https://www.wired.com/story/eight-google-employees-invented-modern-ai-transformers-paper/

The Era of Predictive AI Is Almost Over
“Language models are just glorified autocomplete” has been the critics’ refrain — but reinforcement learning is proving them wrong. New breakthroughs could follow.
Dean W. Ball, The New Atlantis, Summer 2024
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-era-of-predictive-ai-is-almost-over

On AI “Black Boxes”
Will we ever understand neural networks?
Dean W. Ball, Hyperdimensional, Aug 29, 2024
https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/on-ai-black-boxes

Ivan Malinovski: “Livet i træerne” fra samlingen “Romerske Bassiner” (1963)
Samlede Digte, Borgen, 1970

Marcus du Sautoy: The Creativity Code – How Ai is Learning to Write, Paint and Think
Harpercollins Publishers, 2019

Carlo Rovelli: The Order of Time
Penguin Books Ltd, 2019

Carlo Rovelli: Reality Is Not What It Seems – The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Penguin Books Ltd, 2017

Yuval Noah Harari: Nexus – A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Fern Press, 2024

Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Vintage Publishing, 2024