Machine Intelligence Reading List - October 2025

This month's Machine Intelligence Reading List for October 2025 questions dominant paradigms and alternative futures. Silicon Valley Is Obsessed With the Wrong AI critiques the industry's singular focus on scaling transformer architectures and LLMs, arguing that alternative approaches - symbolic AI, neurosymbolic systems, embodied cognition - might offer more robust paths toward genuine machine intelligence. The article challenges venture capital's momentum around a single paradigm, suggesting concentrated investment creates path dependence that may delay more promising research directions.

Broader perspectives emerge through The Majority AI View, which examines how most people - outside tech industry bubbles - perceive and interact with AI systems. Survey data reveals pragmatic adoption patterns: people use AI tools opportunistically whilst remaining skeptical about grander claims, concerned about job impacts, and wary of corporate control. This "majority view" contrasts sharply with Silicon Valley's revolutionary rhetoric, suggesting significant gaps between builder narratives and user realities.

October's reading list invites reconsideration of assumptions driving current AI development. Are we pursuing the right architectures? Do industry perspectives reflect broader societal needs? As transformer-based systems encounter scaling limits and deployment challenges, questions about alternative approaches and stakeholder perspectives become increasingly urgent. The gap between hype and reality creates space for fundamental rethinking.

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Originally published on quantumfaxmachine.com and cross-posted on Medium.

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