Most people imagine artificial intelligence as something dramatic. Popular culture has trained us to picture humanoid robots, self-aware machines, and conversational systems that seem barely distinguishable from human beings. In that version of events, AI is a spectacle. It arrives with headlines, demonstrations, and urgent warnings about the future. Consider
We have been handed the wrong debate about artificial intelligence. Or rather, we have been handed two debates, each internally coherent, each capturing something real, and each, on its own, insufficient to guide us through what is actually at stake. The first debate is about promise. AI systems detect cancers
BearNetAI | Bytes to Insights The Year Artificial Intelligence Reshaped Everything Compiled from BearNetAI Weekly News Digests | January – December 2025 bearnetai.com/news-digest Introduction No year in recent memory compressed more technological history into twelve months than 2025. Artificial intelligence moved decisively from the laboratory into everyday life, from speculative investment
At a remote U.S. military testing range near the Mexican border, defense contractor Anduril recently unveiled a chillingly sophisticated demonstration of autonomous drones guided not by pre-coded routines, but by a large language model (LLM), a cousin to systems like ChatGPT. In under a minute, the swarm coordinated a