THE FUSE

Here is something odd about the most powerful artificial minds ever built. They can translate between a hundred languages, predict protein structures, and beat grandmasters at chess. Yet not one of them has ever truly interacted with another mind. Not in the way a three-month-old infant does when she locks eyes with her mother, their neural rhythms falling into sync, a feedback loop of mutual recognition spinning up between two brains that, for a few seconds, function as one.