Guy Hocking, MD of London-based system integrator Utilize Plc, invited Matthew back to share his insights into the near and deep future. This time the focus was one of the hottest technologies on the planet: artificial intelligence, in all its weird and wonderful forms.
Many people see the future of AI as broadly linear: after generative AI and agentic AI comes Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), then Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). Matthew argued that the future of an exponential technology whose power and capability is now doubling every six months is anything but linear, and that is what he and the audience explored.
"AI is the first ever self-developing technology that is capable of designing, optimising, and replicating itself, with each new generation being significantly better than the last."Matthew Griffin, United Kingdom, March 2025
He pointed out that AI is the first ever self-developing technology, able to design, optimise and replicate itself, with each new generation significantly better than the last. Until now, human-made technologies have largely been dumb, little more than prosthetics. Looking further ahead, things get stranger, with the development of Quantum AI, Neuromorphic AI, biological and DNA neural networks, and even the first Liquid and Meta AIs created inside ionic computers and game engines such as Minecraft.
Moving beyond the generic conversations that dominate so much of the AI debate, Matthew closed with the problems of AI ethics and regulation and the future of AI computing platforms.
