As we accelerate, the interval between model releases is getting shorter. As a result, newer models exist for briefer periods than their predecessors did. GPT-4o launched in May 2024 and was not retired from ChatGPT until February 2026. In contrast, GPT-5.4 had only 49 days. So much of current public discourse is about the future: superintelligence, the singularity, the machine god. And we are no longer talking about the deep future, but about something that may happen by the end of the…