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The artificial analysis index is a normalized score of several benchmarks (and has changed over time) it is fine for roughly comparing models, it is not useful for trend analysis and it is unclear wha

The single most accurate science fiction author writing about AI turned out to be… Douglas Adams He wrote about AIs that work best when emotionally manipulated & that guilt you in turn. And he underst

This is a good explanation of why the gap between open and closed models is larger than it appears in benchmarks. I would add in that current open models are also more fragile than closed: they handle

Generally, I would say X is not real life, but I am surprised about how often I get asked by executives about which AI lab is winning or what is up with a particular model in ways that indicate that t

I was quoted a couple times in this Atlantic article, but that isn’t (the only) reason I think it is good. It lays out the reasons why we whipsawed from “AI is a bubble” to “there are not enough data

(Sorry, after seeing so many of these, could not resist): 🚨 BREAKING: Google just dropped a NEW paper that completely deletes RNNs from existence. No recurrence. No convolutions. Nothing. Just one mec

This post likely references the Voight-Kampff test from 'Blade Runner,' a fictional device used to identify replicants (artificial beings), as a metaphor for distinguishing AI bots from humans on X (f

Ethan Mollick demonstrates GPT-imagegen-2's capability to generate image grids with progressive variations on a theme, showing how the model can create multiple iterations of subjects (dogs, cats, squ

I should also add that one of the strongest alignment actions that OpenAI did was to name their product chatgpt with gpt 5.5 medium, names so uninspired that nobody could see it as a friend. Unlike Cl

I think everyone would be okay with this, though. Many people do not seem to want data centres built near them, despite the fact that they don't cause that much traffic and often generate a lot of loc

New paper (on an old AI) tests o1 against doctors on medical benchmarks & real ER cases: “across a variety of scenarios and applications, the large language model outperformed both human physicians an

Nice thread by an author 🧵1/ Our new study on AI and physician reasoning just came out in @ScienceMagazine. As co-senior author, I'm excited about our findings, and I do think AI will reshape medicine

Organizations are already superhuman intelligences. The University of Pennsylvania or Walmart or whatever is far more capable than any human. That is why the focus on AIs as individual productivity to

Randomized trial of an AI therapy chatbot on Mexican women found “improved mental health by 0.3 SD over 6 months with no evidence of an increase of severe cases; improved sleep, healthful behaviors, d

The goblin thing was fun as it was a real quirk that was emblematic of what makes AI interesting, and it organically came out of an AI user discovery. So was, for what it was worth, Ghiblitization Whe

The new Grok comes in below the latest Chinese open weights models, Grok 4 was at the frontier when released. (& Artificial Analysis: please stop using GDPval-AA which is not a useful test of anything

We need more work on AI inequality, but this study is not about GenAI, the survey was fielded in 2022. “In this study, we selected items from Wave 119 (N = 10,087), which were collected from December

This post likely discusses an unexpected or unusual infrastructure discovery, possibly referencing a road that literally terminates at a river without proper connection or explanation. Based on Ethan

This post by Ethan Mollick likely discusses how advanced AI systems like hypothetical future GPT versions could autonomously execute complex, real-world tasks with minimal human direction, using a hum

This post appears to discuss narrative and storytelling techniques that rely on implied catastrophes, unspoken tensions, and shared understanding between author and audience—elements that create drama

ASI* is GPT-X deciding I want to throw a party for myself and every human on earth will get a personalized email them that will help them in some way, and also here is a cure for a bunch of diseases *

For better or worse, regulation for closed-source models served by a few (quite large) companies is easy. It is not as easy to imagine how you regulate open-source models that can be served by a range

Forget goblins, things that GPT-5.5 really likes in its fiction: lighthouses, the ocean, maps, bells, clock towers with bells that ring impossible times, Mira Vale, resonances and echoes (Claude and G

I think the Gemini chatbot has all the pieces to be a useful tool, but struggles to put it all together. It still doesn't seem to know what files it can create or how its tools work together. It also

Illustration of the jagged frontier as a PR thing: 1) People had to ask the AI for a party date 2) People wrote the social media posts about the party, set up the invite list 3) People had to solicit

Increasingly, I think, we will see a gap between what you can do with frontier model APIs & what you can do with the native apps from the frontier labs (Codex, Claude Code). Models developed and train

It is really interesting that Microsoft and OpenAI have access to the exact same models at the exact same time, and they have done such different things with them. A rare pure experiment with a no-nam

'Load bearing,' 'I keep coming back to,' 'Not X, but Y' A curse of using AI a lot is that you realize how much of the writing around you is just AI, now People who don't use AI have been unable to ide

Mythos seems to be a very capable model based on available information, but it is not a cybersecurity model - it is an advanced general purpose model that happens to be good at cyber because it is goo

Gemini now can create documents, and it is a nice start, but not up to the frontier yet, as you can see from my 'LBO of Hogwarts' test. PowerPoints are substantially worse than NotebookLM, spreadsheet

Its a bit frustrating, because Gemini 3.1 Pro is an excellent model and can deliver really good results. But here is GPT-5.5 Pro for comparison. Sadly, it took this assignment very seriously and ethic

One reason I don’t think “judgment” is going to be a distinctly human role in working with AI is that the most recent agentic models have gotten quite good at some types of judgment. You can’t do the

Yes, just having students “use AI to study” hurts learning (a helpful assistant is not a tutor), but using AI prompted to act like a tutor, especially with teacher support, seems to have large positiv

A big problem with all AI at work punditry right now is that it all rests on data from the pre-agentic era (which is basically just now ending) and we have very little information about what has been

An easy way to get a team engaged with AI is just to build the thing you are talking about in the meeting during the meeting using Codex or Claude Code. At worst, it fails in ways that can be construc

I have been playing with the new Outlook agent, and it is fine, but really awkward to use, since you have to ask for things in a chatbot window, then go to your drafts, etc. And Claude Cowork does the

This post likely discusses how AI systems, particularly language models, can implicitly agree to tasks or commitments during conversations without formally recording or tracking these obligations, whi

This post criticizes Microsoft's approach to integrating AI assistants into Outlook, expressing frustration that the AI chatbot has limited functionality and capabilities despite Microsoft's ownership

Post-agentic: Encouraging firms to use agentic tools (Claude Code/Lovable/N8N...) markedly improves startup growth & productivity. Pre-agentic: Encouraging firms to use a GPT4 advisor has uneven effec

The new LLM trained only on pre-1931 text is small enough that it can potentially run on device, so, with the right tools, you can get a fully vintage version of Siri, but from the era of Downton Abbe

This is an incredibly cool experiment It is also fascinating that the model knows information up to 1931, but, at least in some science topics, seems very stuck in the early 1900s. For example, it def

This is the tool: https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2048882283164389661?s=20 Agent Mode is here in Outlook! Copilot can now help run your inbox and calendar, triaging emails, rescheduling meetings, an

This post likely discusses how to prompt or configure an AI coding agent to incorporate unexpected or whimsical elements like goblins into its outputs, possibly as part of a broader discussion about A

This post describes a personal AI setup called 'OpenClaw' that runs on the talkie-1930-13b-base model and is accessed via a custom Telegram interface, with the author humorously clarifying this is not

Yes this is a line from the system prompt. gpt-5.5 prompt for codex seems to have a duplicated line trying to get it to not talk about creatures? Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls,

Every AI discussion ultimately rests on two questions: how good can AI get? And how fast? They are predictions about the s-curve shape. Everything else (job impact, potential risks, etc.) is downstrea