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Articles by Bryan McMahon
What If There’s No AGI?
Last month, the tech world turned with rapt attention to one man, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for the launch of the company’s new AI model, GPT-5. The atmosphere resembled the scientists waiting to see the first atomic bomb test at Los Alamos. GPT-5 was supposed to be another great leap forward toward the promised godlike telos of artificial general intelligence (AGI), a machine smarter than any human and possibly smarter than the sum of human civilization itself. But the release of GPT-5 was a dud.
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Now Tesla’s No.1 rival is practically taunting Elon Musk now New York CNN — There are three letters keeping Tesla bulls up at night: BYD.
Bubble Trouble
This article appears in the April 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. The week of Donald Trump’s inauguration, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, stood tall next to the president as he made a dramatic announcement: the launch of Project Stargate, a $500 billion supercluster in the rolling plains of Texas that would run OpenAI’s massive artificial-intelligence models. Befitting its name, Stargate would dwarf most megaprojects in human history.
If Trumpworld’s Security Norms Had Been in Place Before
The Latest from the Prospect Bubble Trouble An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us. BY BRYAN McMAHON
Meath SHC Final: Ratoath win thriller
Meath SHC Final Ratoath 2-15 Trim 1-16 By Paul Keane at Páirc Tailteann A full 61 years since they were last crowned kings of the Royal County, Ratoath are finally Meath senior hurling champions again. And typical enough of a club that has endured more than its fair share of heartbreak since 1963, this was a breakthrough win that came the hard way.
AI is Ushering In a New Scientific Revolution
Since the discovery of DNA in the 1950s, biologists have sought to tie lengths of genetic code to a range of cellular parts and processes—including, for example, the mRNA transcription of specific antibodies that powers the now-famous mRNA vaccines. Despite the progress in sequencing and understanding the genome since the discovery of DNA, one big missing link remained.
How the Police Use AI to Track and Identify You
Surveillance is becoming an increasingly controversial application given the rapid pace at which AI systems are being developed and deployed worldwide. While protestors marched through the city demanding justice for George Floyd and an end to police brutality, Minneapolis police trained surveillance tools to identify them.
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