Why can’t we use time to constrain the cognitive efforts of an AI model? This week, I explore what seems to me to be an underdeveloped area of research on how these tools function. We start on the technical side but then move to the philosophical.

“There are bigger issues swirling here, ones that I think are poorly understood due to Silicon Valley’s fetishization of efficiency and scale. They relate to how we humans conceive of and relate to time, the difference between thinking versus problem solving, and even the experience of life itself.”