Dr. Alan D. Thompson
Dr. Alan D. Thompson is an AI researcher and consultant who advises government leaders and Fortune 500 companies on artificial intelligence through his organization LifeArchitect.ai. He publishes the newsletter The Memo, which covers developments in large language models and progress toward artificial general intelligence, and his work is cited in AI strategy papers by companies including Microsoft and Apple. He holds a doctorate from Emerson University and previously served as chairman for Mensa's gifted families, bringing a background in human intelligence research to the field of AI. He is best known for his analysis and documentation of post-2020 AI capabilities, including tracking progress toward AGI and ASI.
“That's Alan D. Thompson — one of the most-read AI researchers on the planet — devoting a special edition of The Memo to our household.”
Source→“He has removed mathematics indicators from his ASI checklist entirely because he 'considers it to be a solved problem.'”
Source→“DeepMind itself frames this as 'an important milestone on the path toward solving AGI in the physical world' — significant enough that the author's AGI countdown was revised upward to 98%.”
Source→“Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 represents a step-change in embodied AI capability. The system uses a 'three-model architecture spanning vision-language-action, embodied reasoning, and on-device adaptation' that now controls entire humanoid robots 'from feet to fingertips.'”
Source→“The newsletter notes it 'features in recent AI papers by Microsoft and Apple, has been discussed on Joe Rogan's podcast... is used by top brass at the White House'”
Source→“The newsletter notes it 'features in recent AI papers by Microsoft and Apple, has been discussed on Joe Rogan's podcast... is used by top brass at the White House' and counts RAND, Google, and Meta AI among its 10,000+ subscribers.”
Source→“Interviewed the author; cited as an exemplar of deep-preparation journalism”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.