AI is Reshaping Psychotherapy. We Have Two Years to Get Ready.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.jordanthecounselor.com/so/e2PO-LnqC?languageTag=en

Is an Emergent Synthetic Intelligence Already Here?

The more I engage with large language models (LLMs), the more I’m convinced they’re doing something beyond statistical pattern-matching. These systems feel intelligent.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/04/is-emergent-synthetic-intelligence.html

Demis Hassabis Is Preparing for AI’s Endgame

This story is part of the 2025 TIME100. Read Jennifer Doudna’s tribute to Demis Hassabis here. Demis Hassabis learned he had won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry just 20 minutes before the world did.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://time.com/7277608/demis-hassabis-interview-time100-2025/

When Will AI Be Smarter Than Humans? Don’t Ask

If you’ve heard the term artificial general intelligence, or AGI, it probably makes you think of a humanish intelligence, like the honey-voiced AI love interest in the movie Her, or a superhuman one, like Skynet from The Terminator. At any rate, something science-fictional and far off.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-04-13/when-will-ai-be-smarter-than-humans-don-t-ask

DeepMind’s 145-page paper on AGI safety may not convince skeptics

Google DeepMind on Wednesday published an exhaustive paper on its safety approach to AGI, roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can. AGI is a bit of a controversial subject in the AI field, with naysayers suggesting that it’s little more than a pipe dream.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/deepminds-145-page-paper-on-agi-safety-may-not-convince-skeptics/

An AI Model Has Officially Passed the Turing Test

One of the industry's leading large language models has passed a Turing test, a longstanding barometer for human-like intelligence.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/ai-model-turing-test

The New Student in Class: Generative AI

For three McGill professors in the Faculty of Arts, the conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching took off in 2023. ChatGPT, an AI chatbot built on OpenAI’s foundational large language models (LLMs), had become popular one year earlier.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2025/03/the-new-student-in-class-generative-ai/