Alan D. Thompson
Founder of LifeArchitect.ai and author of The Memo newsletter, tracking AGI and ASI development.
“This capability shifted my AGI countdown from 98% ➜ 99%.”
“The Memo features in recent AI papers by Microsoft and Apple, has been discussed on Joe Rogan's podcast, and a trusted source says it is used by top brass at the White House”
“I showed the GPT-6 launch video to around 600 government staff for my opening keynote on Friday morning Adelaide time”
“Given that virtually all science questions are now solved by frontier models, I cannot think of further unique text questions that would stump a frontier AI model…”
“In plain English, no human is smart enough to guide superintelligence. So, putting a human in the loop to 'rate' multiple choices of an AI output and then choose the 'best' option is an inherently flawed process. — Dr. Alan D. Thompson (2023)”
Source→“significant enough that the author's AGI countdown was revised upward to 98%.”
Source→“My Models Table now tracks ~950 major model highlights from a worldwide count of roughly 390,000 text-generation models. July 2026 saw yet another new record: there was 1 model highlight announced about every ~18 hours.”
“I'm no political expert, and I don't pretend to be… given that this large language model suspension is a part of frontier AI history, let's provide some insight anyway.”
AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.