Psychology Today | 29.01.2026 23:17
Bear with me for a minute, and let's consider a counter-narrative. For years and maybe even decades, the future of artificial intelligence (AI) has been framed as a countdown to an inevitable result. At some point, we are told, machines will cross a threshold and become "general" and capable of understanding across domains the way humans do. The moment is often imagined as a kind of cognitive sunrise or epiphany.