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AI agents are evolving with orchestration layers enabling modular, autonomous systems beyond traditional SaaS, reshaping workflows, labor, and software design.
David Wolpert warns AI networks may evolve beyond human math, creating unpredictable, emergent intelligence that defies control and comprehension.
Our original research into the AI market, influential companies, and key products. We aim to find signal in the noise, giving our readers a clear picture of today and an understanding of what might be possible in the future.
Venture capitalists are paid to take risk—or at least that’s how it’s supposed to work.
The venture industry invested more than four times as much capital in 2019 as in 2010. But while the industry invested four times the amount of capital, it only invested in twice the number of companies.
We see eight trends that will shape the next decade of venture.
In 2019, 6.9% of deals and 2.9% of invested capital went to all-women founding teams. Clearly, the venture industry has a long way to go.
We have attempted to summarize the outputs and approach of three studies—from Oxford University, McKinsey Global Institute, and Intelligentsia.ai (our own research firm acquired by Quartz in 2017).
The results suggest that the highest earning and most powerful feel far more optimistic about automation while those in lower-paying jobs feel much less in control.
As AI pervades more of our physical world experience, AI determines how we interact and learn, offering us less experience in the physical world. At some point, things need to happen in the physical world, with in-person interaction. These are the skills that an AI won’t be able to beat us at.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
