Misha Kokin's column about AI, technology and life.
OpenAI declared the AGI era, Nvidia said it has arrived, and the people who built the test Astra supposedly aced at 99.9% won't call it AGI. On what we're actually being congratulated for, and why the label matters less to me every week.
For centuries, the ability to write a deep text proved you could think. AI broke that rule — so universities are bringing back oral exams and companies sit engineers down to work without AI. A philologist's notes in the margin of a new normal.
Models are commoditizing fast. The only thing that makes an AI truly yours is memory — a cast of your decisions, taste, and corrections. And that cast is what the next big battle is about.
A personal reflection on how the Artemis 2 mission completion and Cosmonautics Day serve as a reminder of human courage and big dreams.
I reread venture predictions, translated them into human language, and mapped out 13 stages — from geeks with Raspberry Pi to a world where the most valuable human skill is taste.