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Achieving synthetic general intelligence is likely impossible without decoupling the models from human interfaces.

Policies often balance short-term and long-term perspectives.

Language and audiovisual interfaces inform the current landscape and evolution of widely adopted AI applications.

We are overly optimistic when finding local structure in the environment and consistently underestimate its emergent properties.

As with the interstellar travel wait calculation, we might be nearing a time when investing in non-AI scientific projects could prove suboptimal.

There are only so many interactions with synthetic agents humans can maintain daily.

Soon, our engagement with synthetic intelligence agents will be ubiquitous and natural as we rely more on their assistance.

As the lines between the human author and their digital assistants blur further, the existing idea of data authorship loses its value.

Assuming novel intelligence models would benefit from acquiring data beyond existing datasets and the internet.

Continuing the last week's line of thought, we can expect consciousness to dissolve as we approach the extent of our potential.

If self is indeed just a story we tell ourselves to preserve the agent's continuity in the physical world.

Existing social platforms tailor the user experience to a limited set of interaction formats and guidelines.

Humans are information-processing machines that operate on internal and external signalling.

From AI-enabled photo editing apps to fully-fledged virtual avatars, our synthetic presence becomes more vivid and pronounced.

One's attitude towards an unknown opponent in an online chess match can be mostly explained by the current mood and key personality traits.

Exposure to the scientific approach inhibits the ability to create and make mistakes.

We are both masters and subjects to our environment. We define interactions with the world through the employed tools.

We make decisions relying on learned representations and human priors.

We live in a world of undefined and unclear objectives, surrounded by an abundance of external influence factors.