As the world continues to debate the pros and cons and unintended consequences of the current round of sophisticated LLM-based AIs, the industry itself is content to plough on with its relentless quest to shape the future. Whether its Meta’s Orion glasses, the new breed of pocketable and wearable AI assistants, or even the relentless push towards embedding Gemini or Apple Intelligence in absolutely everything, you can sure of a binary split between the controversy and convenience of the technology.
The as-yet-unfulfilled spectre of AGI - Artificial General Intelligence – hovers above everything. Should this technology ever come to fruition (a long-stated goal of companies like OpenAI and Meta), then humanity is going to want to package it up in ways that are friendly, non-threatening and actually useful.
