About this episode
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-PubFrom the blog of Sam Altman: ReflectionsMore about the ARC Prizeo3's environmental impactThe 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' colorsAn AI...faucet??Seattle Public Schools calls ChatGPT a "transformative technology"A GitHub pull request closed because change would have been unfriendly to "AI" chat interfaceCohere working with PalantirElsevier rewrites papers with "AI" without telling authors, editorsThe UK: mainlining AI straight into their veinsCheck out future streams on Twitch. Meanwhile, send us any AI Hell you see.Find our book The AI Con here, and MAIHT3k merch here.Subscribe to our newsletter via Buttondown.Follow us!EmilyBluesky: emilymbender.bsky.socialMastodon: dair-community.social/@EmilyMBenderAlexBluesky: alexhanna.