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Article: Perspectives on Happiness

View original article (PDF) published March 2013 in Journal of Australian Mensa. Co-authored with Professor of Applied Positive Psychology Mark C. Williams.

You don’t need to sort out your bank account, possessions, body, friends, mood, or even your life. Without meaning to sound trite, happiness is yours in this moment regardless of your outside circumstances. When you feel that you deserve to be happy, you will be!

The Memo is a bestseller in 147 countries

Progress to AGI and then ASI

Reports by LifeArchitect.ai (recent)

What's in Grok? (Jan/2025)

What's in GPT-5? (Aug/2024)

2024 AI retrospective

The psychology of modern LLMs (2024)

Integrated AI: Endgame (Jul/2023)

The ChatGPT Prompt Book (Dec/2022)

Roadmap: AI’s next big steps in the world (Jul/2022)

What's in my AI? (Mar/2022)

Videos by LifeArchitect.ai (recent)

Popular AI reports by Dr Thompson
> The Memo (bestseller in 147 countries)
Cited: NBER AI report for US Govt
Dataset quality vs quantity via bonum
Endgame
Gemini: A general specialist
Google Pathways: An Exploration…
The ChatGPT Prompt Book (2022)
The Gap: Waiting for the AI time lag
The new irrelevance of intelligence (2020)
The rising tide lifting all boats (2021)
Roadmap: AI’s next big steps…
What’s in my AI? Analysis of Datasets…
What’s in GPT-5?
What’s in Grok?

AI models
> Models Table
> Large language models
Amazon Nova (formerly Olympus)
Amazon Titan
Anthropic RL-CAI 52B
Apple LLMs
Argonne AuroraGPT (ScienceGPT)
BAAI Wudao 2.0
Baidu ERNIE
Chinchilla scaling laws
DeepMind Sparrow
Fudan MOSS
Google Bard
Google DeepMind Gemini
Microsoft Bing Chat (Sydney)
NVIDIA Cosmos
NVIDIA Megatron
OpenAI GPT-3, ChatGPT
OpenAI GPT-4, GPT-4.5, GPT-5, GPT-6
OpenAI o1: Smarter than we think
OpenAI o3: Stratospheric reasoning
OpenAI o4: Critical mass
OpenAI o5: Proto-ASI
Snapchat My AI
xAI Grok

Annual AI reports/retrospectives
The sky is steadfast (2024 AI)
The sky is quickening (mid-2024 AI)
The sky is comforting (2023 AI)
The sky is entrancing (mid-2023 AI)
The sky is infinite (2022 AI retrospective)
The sky is bigger… (mid-2022 AI)
The sky is on fire (2021 AI retrospective)

Human intelligence + artificial intelligence
> AI + IQ testing
AI + brain-machine interfaces
AI + the human brain
BASIS: Artificial Superintelligence Suite
GPT-3.5 and Raven’s
The psychology of modern LLMs (2024)

AI theory by others
AI papers
AGI achieved internally: A re-written story
Anthropic: My last three years of work
Arguments about AI
Life-changing AI (2020)
Minsky, Kurzweil, Sutskever, Leahy, Sergey
Mocking AI panic
Quotes about AI

AI video
Aurora AI (2021)
GPT-3 vs IBM Watson (2021)
Leta AI (2021)
Una AI (2022)
Zhibing Hua AI (China, 2021)

YouTube channel (new tab)

AI media releases
AGI is here. Leaders guilty of negligence
Alan talks to ABC
AI is outperforming humans
AI fire alarm
AI sound bites

AI theory by Dr Thompson
AI Consciousness & AI Bill of Rights
AI definitions
AI report card
AI + art
AI + economics
AI + ethics
AI + prompt crafting
AI + Six Thinking Hats
AI + spirituality
AI: The Great Flood
Alignment: The Super Wicked Problem
Books written by AI
Distractions (by Claude 3.5 Sonnet)
Former child prodigies creating AI (2022)
Happily ever after (A children’s story)
Humanoid robots ready for LLMs
Learn more about AI
Use cases for large language models…
Watermarking text in LLM outputs
Why does AI make you so angry?

Living documents
Alan’s conservative countdown to AGI
Alan’s ASI checklist
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ALPrompt
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Humanoids Table (new tab)
LLM-Reset/LLM-Normalize
Models Table
Timeline of AI and language models
Visualizations
The Who Moved My Cheese? AI awards!


Dr Alan D. Thompson is a world expert in artificial intelligence (AI), specialising in the augmentation of human intelligence.
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