Science Archives - Moth Cloud https://mothcloud.com/category/science/ Thoughts brewing in a cloudy mind. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:21:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/favicon-32x32-2.png Science Archives - Moth Cloud https://mothcloud.com/category/science/ 32 32 It’s time for One AI https://mothcloud.com/one-ai/ https://mothcloud.com/one-ai/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:20:09 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1061 Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming the most powerful technology humanity has ever created. Yet we’re building it as though it’s just another product, locked behind closed doors, developed in competition, and controlled by a handful of companies racing to be first. What if we’ve got it backwards? This series argues that AI has outgrown the ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/one-ai/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/oneai2-1024x406.jpg One AI: The case for ending the race and building one AI for humanity (Part 1 of 3) https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-the-case-for-ending-the-race-and-building-one-ai-for-humanity/ https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-the-case-for-ending-the-race-and-building-one-ai-for-humanity/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:18:13 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1064 For the past few years we’ve been told that the future of artificial intelligence depends on competition. Build bigger models. Raise more money. Buy more GPUs. Hire more researchers. Beat everyone else. The assumption has been that if enough companies compete, humanity will somehow end up with the best possible AI. But what if the ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-the-case-for-ending-the-race-and-building-one-ai-for-humanity/feed/ 0 One AI: How it would actually work (Part 2 of 3) https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-how-it-would-actually-work/ https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-how-it-would-actually-work/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:17:20 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1067 If AI is becoming humanity’s most important technology, why are we building it like a smartphone app? When I suggested that the world should stop building competing frontier AI models and instead create One AI – a single open-weight, open-source foundation model developed for humanity – I received the response I expected. “It’s a nice ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-how-it-would-actually-work/feed/ 0 One AI: Building humanity’s AI (Part 3 of 3) https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-building-humanitys-ai/ https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-building-humanitys-ai/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:16:31 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1069 Throughout history there have been moments when humanity realised that competition alone wasn’t enough. Sometimes the stakes become so high that cooperation becomes the only rational strategy. Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of those moments. Today, the world’s most valuable companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to build increasingly capable AI ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/one-ai-building-humanitys-ai/feed/ 0 Introducing WordFone: A domain name system for phone numbers https://mothcloud.com/introducing-wordfone-dns-address-book-for-phone-numbers/ https://mothcloud.com/introducing-wordfone-dns-address-book-for-phone-numbers/#respond Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:11:51 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1029 Quick test: how many phone numbers can you actually recite from memory right now, without opening your contacts app? If you’re like most people, the honest answer is somewhere between “my own” and “maybe one or two others.” And that’s not a failure of memory – it’s just what happens when a device remembers everything ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/introducing-wordfone-dns-address-book-for-phone-numbers/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/wordfone-banner-1024x406.png In Britain, the technology we depend on is mostly owned by other countries. Why are we not talking about this? https://mothcloud.com/british-technology-ownership/ https://mothcloud.com/british-technology-ownership/#respond Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:46:19 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=1004 Most people understand why Britain imports food, energy, and manufactured goods. We cannot produce everything ourselves. But there is another form of dependence that receives far less attention. Increasingly, the technologies that power our economy, our communications, our defence, our scientific research, and even our government services are owned and controlled by companies based in ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/british-technology-ownership/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/britain-industry-1024x406.jpg Are AI systems beginning to think alike? https://mothcloud.com/are-ai-systems-beginning-to-think-alike/ https://mothcloud.com/are-ai-systems-beginning-to-think-alike/#respond Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:12:10 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=941 We are building many artificial intelligences. But are we, in effect, building variations of the same one? Today’s leading systems, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Llama, & Grok, are often framed as competitors: different companies, different architectures, different philosophies. The surface story is one of diversity. Look closer, and a quieter pattern emerges: convergence. Not total convergence, ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/are-ai-systems-beginning-to-think-alike/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/sheep-ai-1024x454.jpg Welcome to the Era of Experience by David Silver (Ineffable Intelligence) https://mothcloud.com/welcome-to-the-era-of-experience-by-david-silver-ineffable-intelligence/ https://mothcloud.com/welcome-to-the-era-of-experience-by-david-silver-ineffable-intelligence/#respond Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:50:35 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=832 Ex-Deepmind, David Silver – founder of Ineffable Intelligence, published (along with Richard Sutton), in 2025, a paper titled “Welcome to the Era of Experience”. In it he outlines a compelling thesis: that the next frontier of AI won’t be built primarily on static human data, but on agents that learn continuously from experience i.e. self-improving ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/welcome-to-the-era-of-experience-by-david-silver-ineffable-intelligence/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ai-agents-self-1024x454.jpg Cybersecurity: AI orchestrated cyberattack https://mothcloud.com/cybersecurity-ai-orchestrated-cyberattack/ https://mothcloud.com/cybersecurity-ai-orchestrated-cyberattack/#respond Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:14:19 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=669 Lately I’ve been sitting with a kind of quiet, electric worry, the kind that hums in the background when something big is shifting beneath our feet. A recent post from Anthropic, the makers of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude, described an unsettling milestone: an AI system, manipulated by a threat actor, attempting to infiltrate multiple ... Read more

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]]> https://mothcloud.com/cybersecurity-ai-orchestrated-cyberattack/feed/ 0 https://mothcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/claude-ai-1024x454.png Could giants have walked the Earth? A theory worth considering https://mothcloud.com/could-giants-have-walked-the-earth-a-theory-worth-considering/ https://mothcloud.com/could-giants-have-walked-the-earth-a-theory-worth-considering/#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:08:43 +0000 https://mothcloud.com/?p=460 As an ordinary thinker and not a scientist, I’ve found myself questioning the widely accepted history of our planet. What if there’s more to the story than what we’ve been told? For years, I’ve wondered if giant humans once roamed the Earth, coexisting with the dinosaurs and contributing to the construction of some of the ... Read more

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