One of the key questions for predicting the impact of Artificial Intelligence is whether we will see a “slow takeoff” or a “fast takeoff”. In today’s video I have a look at what various forecasts say and why and what that might mean for the idea of “post scarcity” or “abundance economy”.

Nuclear batteries – which deliver energy from radioactivity – have seen some massive technological improvements over the past few years. Startups are shifting to larger devices that can output more power safely, thereby dramatically increasing the possible applications. Let’s take a look at how nuclear battery tech is improving and where it might go in the future.

I've tried GPT 5, Gemini Deepthink, Grok 4, and Claude Opus 4.1 to get some feedback on a physics idea.

OpenAI just released its GPT-5 LLM and AI startups across the world are still getting massive valuations from investors. But talk of Large Language Models hitting a “wall” are not going away. A new paper now explained what the real problem with AI scaling is. Is the AI wall real or not? Let’s take a look.

Is AI truly creative or is it, as Noam Chomsky put it, merely “high-tech plagiarism?” Multiple studies have documented that AI is more creative and more efficient at creative tasks than humans. But in a stunning paper that just appeared, researchers demonstrate that images produced with (simple) convolutional neural nets are 90% predictable by purely analytical methods. So how creative is AI really? Let’s take a look.

Already tired of hearing about how AI is going to change the world? Well, I think they’re right and we are underestimating AI. Let’s take a look at what AI experts, super-predictors, consultants, and investors are all predicting about the future of AI.

Earlier this year, Microsoft unveiled its new Majorana quantum processor which supposedly used topological qubits which are less susceptible to noise. Unfortunately for the company, that claim was quickly disputed by quantum researchers. Now, though, Microsoft researchers have published yet another paper to the arXiv claiming that they’ve made another quantum breakthrough. Let’s take a look.

Nuclear fusion technology is barely able to create net positive energy at the moment, but a fusion startup claims it will make the technology profitable by generating gold in fusion reactions. Really? Let’s take a look at some modern-day alchemy.

A French research ship recently found more than 3,000 barrels containing nuclear waste sitting on the ocean floor off their country’s coastline, and some of them are leaking. How bad is it? Let’s take a look.

A growing number of people now believe that current AI chatbots are actually sentient beings. Some even believe that they’re lost souls trapped inside computers. Let’s examine why these people think this, and what we can do about it.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and other AI preachers have claimed that AI might one day “solve physics.” Is this true? What would this even mean? In this video I have a look at what current and potentially future AI could do for physics.

According to multiple recent reports, China’s quantum computing industry is making quick progress, and the West should be worried about its pace. Just exactly what is going on? Let’s take a look.

If you’ve ever used AI and felt a bit dumber for it, you’re not alone. But now you can claim that your feelings are backed by some research. According to multiple new studies (and some anecdotal evidence), AI is negatively impacting people’s abilities to read, write, and process information. Let’s take a look.

The AI revolution is already here, but not as you think. Companies all over the world are working very hard at “microtargeting” you with their ads and tracking your every online-move. Scammers are having a good time with deepfakes, and scientists help along by figuring out how to best use AI to engineer human behavior. Let’s take a look at a few examples, and how AI might be further weaponized in the future.

Hydrogen is the perfect fuel in some aspects – it burns cleanly and is efficient – but unfortunately it’s currently mostly produced from fossil fuels, which isn’t clean at all. According to a new paper, though, reserves of hydrogen stored in subterranean reservoirs are more common than you’d think and could supply energy for the world for 100000 years. Really? Let’s take a look.

While AI development seems to have stagnated for a bit, AI researchers are working on some seriously interesting stuff – namely, AI algorithms that can constantly improve their accuracy or learn new tasks. Just in the past months, we have seen multiple advances in self-reinforced AI learning, including some that could go beyond large language models. Let’s take a look.

AI is becoming an increasingly important decision maker in our society whether you like it or not. But can an AI have free will? And should it be made responsible for its decisions? Philosophers are arguing both sides of the issue – let’s take a look.

Quantum computing companies always claim that the next big breakthrough is around the corner. Usually you can safely ignore those claims, but a recent series of quantum computing developments might mean that commercially useful quantum computers could be just a few years off. And it looks like they are becoming dangerous faster than we thought. Let’s take a look.

In this video I have a look at the recent Apple paper that made headlines with the "Illusion of Thinking", the criticism of it, and another paper about AI thinking that appeared at almost the same time.