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Sam Altman's Fever Dream, 2025.01.13

2025/1/22
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

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Not only is OpenAI's new o3 model allegedly breaking records for how close an LLM can get to the mythical "human-like thinking" of AGI, but Sam Altman has some, uh, reflections for us as he marks two years since the official launch of ChatGPT. Emily and Alex kick off the new year unraveling these truly fantastical stories.

References:

OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub)

From the blog of Sam Altman: Reflections)

More about the ARC Prize)

o3's environmental impact)

The brain is a computer is a brain) Fresh AI Hell:

"Time to Edit" as a metric predicting the singularity) (Contributed by Warai Otoko)

AI 'tasting' colors)

An AI...faucet??)

Seattle Public Schools calls ChatGPT a "transformative technology")

A GitHub pull request closed because change would have been unfriendly to "AI" chat interface)

Cohere working with Palantir)

Elsevier rewrites papers with "AI" without telling authors, editors)

The UK: mainlining AI straight into their veins)

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Music by Toby Menon.Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park). Production by Christie Taylor.