Five Things AI: Manus, Oppenheimer Moment, Laptop Jobs, Superintelligence, Refusal

All you need to read about AI this week.

Heya and welcome back to Five Things AI!

Another week in which we can debate how quickly AGI will be reached and what this will mean for the future of mankind or how fast everything is changing or how companies like Manus are shaking things or how scientific research will be changed forever, but what I truly find wonderful, is this: just imagine what it is like when you’re vibe-coding and the machine tells you that it refuses to do your job. Didn’t we all think the machines would take over our jobs? And now they are refusing to take on our repetitive jobs for us? How ironic.

Read on, my dear!