In Baaz Magazine, AI researcher Thomas Moerland from Leiden University takes you under the hood of artificial intelligence. No hype, no crystal ball, but a sober analysis of the three forces under the hood of AI, which ultimately determine what the future looks like.
Because the public debate about AI often feels like a ping pong match. One expert predicts human-level within two years, the other calls that complete nonsense. Historically, AI researchers have been wrong more often than right. So if predictions offer little guidance, what should you look at instead?
Moerland turns the perspective around. Anyone who wants to say something meaningful about the future of AI must understand what has made progress possible so far. In this article, you will read:
- Why learning algorithms are the silent architects of modern AI
- How the internet provided the fuel for language models
- Why chip manufacturers may be just as decisive as AI researchers
- And where the real limits of AI might lie
Artificial intelligence and the laws of progress
The piece shows that AI is not a magical leap, but the result of three converging developments: better algorithms, more data, and explosively growing computing power. If one of those pillars collapses, progress stalls. If they continue to develop, the world will change further.
But there is also a reassuring nuance. Evolution had half a billion years to refine the human brain. That perspective places current AI progress in a different light.
Anyone who wants to look beyond the headlines and truly understand where AI comes from - and where it might be heading - will find in this article not prophecy, but insight.
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