No One is Unique
One of the most frustrating experiences of my philosophical academic career was learning that I'm not special. Every idea I've had, someone else already contemplated decades or centuries ago. Why would I be the first one to contemplate ideas that are not at the bleeding edge of discovery and human understanding?
The truth is, people have had a long time to consider a lot of things, so the odds of making anything truly unique is rather low. I don't agree that uniqueness or originality should be a criteria for judging models since it is not only irrelevant, it's nearly impossible! Why would you want to reinvent the wheel when it's going to cost you more time and money to figure out the other problems you'll run into?
Source: https://www.psypost.org/a-mathematical-ceiling-limits-generative-ai-to-amateur-level-creativity/
Self Reflecting: Sadly Uncommon for People and AI
It's hilarious to see the parallels between people and ai. A new paper examines how ai is quite bad at determining what it's beliefs are, changing them, and then applying those beliefs, yet are people any better? While studies show that 95% of people think that they are self aware, only 10-15% actually are.
Why are we surprised that ai doesn't know what it believes and can't change it, if humans (which ai is based off of) can't do that either!
I'm very excited to see the research that shows how to convince ai, maybe we will be able to finally convince people!
Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.13240
Nuclear AI
Another underrated benefit of this AI boom is that it's finally putting more focus on infrastructure. Microsoft already has a contract for a nuclear fusion power plant in 2028. whether or not they are able to get their reactor (on time or at all), there is finally money behind fusion research, and more money going into general electrical infrastructure.
Just stop passing the electric bill onto non related residents...
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2025/11/21/how-ai-is-ushering-in-a-new-nuclear-age/