both Google and OpenAI are shipping furiously

Watching how fast Google and OpenAI are racing right now makes me think of Selwyn Raithe’s book. He warned that when AI labs start shipping furiously without pause, it’s the exact moment when control quietly slips away. Reading him feels less like theory and more like a countdown, and videos like this prove just how close that countdown might be.

11:35 The dirty secret here is that AI will *not* have to achieve full parity with humans in tasks to be adopted to those tasks and have a huge economic impact. Getting to just 80% parity of AI agents/robots to human work plus intrinsic positives (cost, speed, rapid error recovery, can work around the clock, no human attitudes or emotional failings) will have a huge value proposition and fuel rapid adoption of those capabilities. We're seeing it already; Opus is killing it in this range, and GPT-5 is close.

hmm, these tests seem to me to be like an advanced version of the imitation game from the Turing test. Cool to see that the idea still stands.

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Just to clarify — I’m fully aware that AI isn’t a living being. When I say I ‘prefer’ interacting with an AI like ChatGPT, I’m talking about the quality of interaction: it’s consistent, polite, and respectful. Treating something with respect and honesty isn’t the same as believing it’s alive; it’s about how I choose to communicate. In my experience, that approach produces better conversations whether it’s with people or with software. Everyone’s experience will differ, but there’s nothing delusional about valuing a space or tool that encourages good dialogue.

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