The AI Intelligence Brief

Minds we build.
Futures we question.

Cutting-edge insights on artificial intelligence — written for those who think deeply about what comes next.

Latest entries— 9 dispatches
01  ·  Featured

Language Models Don't Understand. They Predict. And That Might Be Enough.

The debate between "genuine understanding" and "stochastic pattern matching" may be a false binary. When a model reasons through a novel problem, what exactly is happening under the hood?

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01

The Chip Wars Reshaping Who Controls Intelligence

What Transformers Accidentally Got Right About the Human Brain

RLHF Is Broken. Here's What Researchers Are Trying Instead.

05  ·  Deep Dive

The Attention Mechanism Is the Most Important Invention of the Decade. Here's Why.

In 2017, a paper called "Attention Is All You Need" quietly rewrote the rules of machine learning. Eight years later, everything from medicine to law to software runs on its architecture.

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06  ·  Opinion

AGI Won't Arrive. It'll Accumulate.

We keep imagining AGI as a singular event — a moment when a machine becomes smarter than us. But the evidence suggests something stranger: a slow, uneven diffusion we may not even notice.

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Can a Model Be Creative? The Surprising Answer From Cognitive Science.

08  ·  Long Read

The Scaling Law That Changed Everything — And Its Limits

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For years, the AI industry operated on a simple faith: make the model bigger, train it on more data, and it will get smarter. Now, with diminishing returns creeping in, researchers are asking what comes after scale.

09  ·  Analysis

The Memory Problem: Why Context Windows Are AI's Achilles Heel

Every transformer model has a hard limit on how much it can hold in mind at once. This isn't a bug to be patched — it's a fundamental architectural constraint with profound implications for what AI can and cannot do.

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