January 2026
- Jan 13, 2026TechnologyFuture of AI: What's Coming NextAgentic systems that take actions rather than answer questions are the near-term shift: Klarna said in 2024 that an AI agent handled 66 percent of its customer service inquiries. Against that, Narayanan and Kapoor's AI Snake Oil documented gaps of 15 to 40 percentage points between advertised benchmark accuracy and measured accuracy in deployment. The article separates developments already underway from AGI timelines it treats as genuinely uncertain.
- Jan 12, 2026TechnologyTraining AI Models ExplainedTraining is one loop repeated billions of times: forward pass, loss calculation, backpropagation, parameter update. No rules are written, only weights adjusted. The counterintuitive part is how much data those weights need. DeepMind's 2022 Chinchilla work trained 400 models and found the compute-optimal ratio is roughly 20 tokens per parameter, so Chinchilla at 70 billion parameters and 1.4 trillion tokens beat Gopher at 280 billion on the same compute budget.
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