Machines Donβt Cry β But They Can Comfort You. What Does That Mean for Humanity?
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. βWe are being forced to confront the most fundamental questions about what it means to be human β and weβre not ready.β β AI Researcher What happens when a machine not only calculates …
From Reactive Scripts to Cognitive Colleagues: How Agentic AI Is Quietly Replacing White-Collar Workflows
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. The 2025 AI Shift Thatβs Rewriting Business β One Autonomous Decision at a Time βThe real question isnβt whether machines think, but whether men do.β β B.F. Skinner Itβs 2:47 AM. A logistics …
β¦Still Using Transformers? Hereβs Why Youβre Already Falling Behind
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. Picture this: Youβre watching the latest AI-generated video, and it suddenly stutters. The characters freeze mid-motion, the background glitches, and youβre left staring at digital artifacts instead of seamless content. What youβre witnessing …
Claude Code and the Rise of Terminal Intelligence: Are You Ready for Agentic AI?
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. In the beginning, coding assistants were glorified autocomplete tools. Then came the prompt-driven revolution, where large language models wrote code for you, not with you. Now, we stand at the edge of a …
From Insight to Amnesia: How ChatGPT Cut Cognitive Load by 47% in MIT Study
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. As ChatGPT becomes more deeply woven into our personal and professional lives β helping us brainstorm, write, organize, respond, analyze, and even empathize β the boundary between augmentation and substitution becomes dangerously blurred. …
606Γ Faster Than GPUs? How WaferLLM Could Power AIβs Next Centuryβ¦
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. βSometimes, revolutions donβt roar β they hum beneath the surface, reshaping the world before we notice.β In the endless flood of AI breakthroughs and bombastic claims, one technology hums quietly in the background, …
3X Faster Designs, 20% Bigger Yields: How LLM 3.0 Is Reshaping Creativity and Agriculture
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. Imagine standing at the crossroads of a technological revolution, where machines not only write but also see, hear, and β most remarkably β verify their own claims. Welcome to the world of LLM …
What Happens When AI Agents Forget? Inside the Crisis Nobody Talks Aboutβ¦
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. Why AIβs Next Leap Wonβt Be From Bigger Models β But From Better Infrastructure (And Smarter Connections) πΈοΈ The AI gold rush is here. Every day, headlines trumpet bigger models, smarter agents, faster …
The 3 Devices That Will Battle for Your Neck: OpenAI io vs. Humane Pin vs. Rabbit R1
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. It was a late Friday night. I was deep in another rabbit hole of tech news when I stumbled on the headline: OpenAI is making hardware. A pendant-shaped device, no screen, designed by …
Whispers of a Screenless Future: Why OpenAIβs βioβ May Be the First AI Gadget Worth Wearing
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. No screen. No apps. No distractions. Thatβs not a pitch for a mindfulness retreat β itβs OpenAIβs vision of the future. And it comes in the form of a palm-sized AI companion dubbed …
From 1T Tokens to Total Cognition: The Numbers Behind the New AI Brainβ¦
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. βThe greatest advancements in AI will not come from models that specialize in single modalities, but from those that can seamlessly integrate our multi-sensory world.β β Andrej Karpathy Since the introduction of the …
Inside a 7-Layer Cognitive Stack: How Claude + MCP Deliver Real-Time Epistemic Intelligenceβ¦
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. βContext is not just a variable. Itβs the difference between output and understanding.β The evolution of AI agents has moved beyond prediction and instruction-following into a domain where interpretability, confidence, and memory are …
The Secret Protocol Powering GenAI Efficiency?…MCPβs Impact Might Be Bigger Than the Model Itself
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. βIf your AI doesnβt interact with tools, itβs not acting β itβs just predicting.β Powerful large language models like GPT-4, Claude, and DeepSeek R1 can generate accurate, human-like responses. But when it comes …
Misinformation vs. Machine: OpenAI, Perplexity & Grok3 Tested Across 5 Real-World Truth Tasks
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. In a digital world polluted with falsehoods, three AI titans β OpenAI, Perplexity, and Grok3 β are leading a new kind of war: a war for truth. Their mission? Help humans not just …
DeepSeek R1 on a Budget? Our XGBoost Model Predicts 84% Accuracy and 30β40% RAM Savings via Quantization
Author(s): R. Thompson (PhD) Originally published on Towards AI. (Credit : Developed using AI) βDeploying AI locally is no longer a constraint β itβs a prediction challenge.β Much of todayβs generative AI narrative is fixated on benchmarks, token counts, and transformer tweaks. …