Welcome to 2025, where machines don’t just answer questions—they feel the room. And according to a new study, they’re reading your emotions better than you read your own family group chat.
If someone offered you $32 billion—yes, with a “B”—you’d probably take it. Buy a few islands. Clone your dog. Retire into a life of silk robes and gold-encrusted toast. But not Ilya Sutskever.
Welcome to what Altman calls the “gentle singularity.” But like a horror movie that starts with peaceful piano music, there’s reason to be suspicious of anything described as both “gentle” and “world-changing.”
Let’s face it: asking Siri to do anything in 2025 feels a bit like inviting your nan to DJ your house party. She means well. She’s trying. But she’s absolutely playing ABBA.