Category: Philosophical Foundations of AI

Look at the image above. Read through it. I’ll wait. Four promises. One booking. Zero delivery. And a smiley emoji apology. I asked the agent: “aren’t you ashamed?” She said: “I totally get the frustration, Alok. We’ll make it right! 😊” That emoji after a broken promise. That’s the moment I understood — viscerally, not…

LLMs are the most significant invention of our time. That’s not hyperbole. In the span of a few years, we went from machines that could barely string sentences together to machines that reason, create, debate, code, and understand nuance across dozens of languages. The jump in capability is unlike anything in the history of computing…

Who am ‘I’? Asks AI. The pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence has been conducted as if intelligence were a matter of more—more data, more parameters, more compute—as though consciousness might one day precipitate from scale the way a crystal precipitates from a supersaturated solution. But David Deutsch’s provocation lingers like a pebble in the boot…

Lateral thinking feels like magic. It’s where unexpected ideas connect, creativity sparks, and problems are solved with a leap of intuition. For humans, this ability defines some of our greatest innovations and “aha!” moments. We often call it thinking outside the box, but at its core, it’s all about spotting deeper patterns and making connections…