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by abixb 6d ago
Guessing Opus 5 burned through kilowatts of thinking tokens to output, "powerhouse of a cell."
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by abixb 8d ago
I remember Logan Kilpatrick from Google talking about how AGI will be more of an experience with a product than raw 'intelligence' of a model. [0] No one outside of the nerd community cares about benchmarks or any of the other cra
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by abixb 8d ago
> you should really question your worldview a bit. Yeah, I still struggle with it. I have a diverse friend circle and sometimes I forget that most of them don't have the same information diet that I do (or don't even care about
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by abixb 8d ago
I think Meta's strategy is to capture the 'normie-tier' of AI users. I know most of us here on HN track model releases quite frequently and discuss every parameter weight out of them, but most of the world is just... obliviou
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by abixb 13d ago
The couldn't even get the bar chart right, iirc. [0] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1mk8tm8/gpt5_c...
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by abixb 13d ago
I think models using these harnesses were also RLHF'd hard on responding to looping instructions and following through on goals. Older models were tuned for basic chat responses.
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by abixb 13d ago
>When we released ARC 3, I got asked, "when do you think a frontier model will saturate it?", and I answered "in about a year, though it depends on how much it gets explicitly targeted" You're treating an off-han
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by abixb 13d ago
>I think that the harnesses and context management is really where the rubber meets the road, and the real gains are happening there. True. So we did hit a wall with pure scaling alone, though no lab would admit it. It's crazy to se
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by abixb 13d ago
It's "harnessmaxxing" all the way down. AI benchmark scene is exhibit A for Goodhart's law.
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by abixb 13d ago
I want to take a step back: So, this is GPT-6 -- the natural number version release comparable to GPT-4 and GPT-5 from the past few years. The ARC-AGI-3 score is obviously impressive at 99.9% (we'll need to wait for more details on how
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by abixb 14d ago
I like Google's strategy here. These new Flash models of late (Flash 3.6, 3.7 and now 3.8) have obviously been distilled from a much larger unreleased model (Gemini 3.5 Pro, iirc from the rumors). One aspect of model releases that don&
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by abixb 18d ago
Username checks out. /s
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by abixb 18d ago
Yes. I remember reading a piece on /r/SlateStarCodex subreddit many years that said something like, "Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people," and that had an impact on me. In fact, many artic
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by abixb 21d ago
Lina Khan @ the FTC was the best thing about the Biden administration, for me.
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by abixb 21d ago
Yes. Great for devs, for a while. Awful for overall competition and industry's health. I think the federal antitrust regulators are asleep. Edit: antitrust regulators' job has just begun -- we'll see how this deal gets adjudi
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AI Is Undermining Leaders' Judgment. Here's What to Do About It(hbr.org)
14 points by abixb 27d ago|5 comments
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by abixb 27d ago
SaaS companies have run out of ideas. No one truly needs another coding agent. I weep for SaaS's future.
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by abixb 28d ago
Curious on what OpenRouter's true moat is? It's just an LLM API routing framework, right?
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by abixb 29d ago
I look for independent artists and craftspeople. I recent bought a pack of sci-fi posters for my apartment from an artists who designs it herself and who has an independent reputation. My goal has now shifted to identify the thinnest interm
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by abixb 29d ago
Enshittification is such a perfect word for all this. Cory Doctorow is a word magician.
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by abixb 29d ago
I've slowly shifted all my consumer purchases from Amazon to local shops and other online platforms, including Etsy. I'm now seriously contemplating deleting my Amazon account of 15 years in one whole swoop. The quality degradatio
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by abixb 1mo ago
Went looking for old videos at the infancy of the internet, as we wade through this AI-era. Found this video where Gates is talking to developers right as Microsoft is reorienting around the Internet; there’s Windows 95/DirectPlay mate
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PDC 1996 Keynote with Bill Gates(learn.microsoft.com)
5 points by abixb 1mo ago|1 comments
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by abixb 1mo ago
Well, Google is probably the only one among frontier model providers in the US that doesn't have a massive financial pressure to deliver business results ASAP (and this focus on agent coding and long-running agentic tasks), so Google i
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by abixb 1mo ago
Some of the people in the tech industry are, for lack of a better word, borderline insane. They forget how it was literally initial government investments into DARPA and other organizations that laid the foundation for the long ascendance o
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by abixb 1mo ago
>"A lot of 'numbers' startups cite are basically fake I think." I like Ed Zitron's reporting on the AI industry (though I disagree with him on AI's potential capabilities). I wonder how much of AI-related re
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by abixb 1mo ago
I wonder when we crossed the "99 percentile of intelligence for 99% of the usecases" threshold. At this point, the gains seem to be right at the very edge of bleeding edge for narrow and specialized use cases, and wonder if it&#x2
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by abixb 1mo ago
If what you're saying is true and accurate, then US-based AI labs are in big trouble. The only saving grace might be some sort of a 'national security' proclamation banning the use of state-of-the-art Chinese (and non-US) m
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by abixb 1mo ago
I've run this thought experiment a number of times with different sections of my (relatively) diverse friend circle. I ask them a version of this question on repeat : "what if AI automates X aspect of your work?", and the fi
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by abixb 1mo ago
The amplifying mirror analogy works best here. LLMs are ultimately a reflection of your own interactions with its weights, the tone you use, the structure with which you construct your prompt, aspects of an issue you tend to focus on, your

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