There are always a flood of posts about what AI can or cannot do, so it is worth pausing and paying attention to this one. It is a very hard test, done without tools. It was also viewed as an unlikely goal. Prediction markets had the chance of this happening this year as 20%

"[video game] as a community theater production" may be one of the most delightful Veo 3 Fast prompts Please enjoy, in order: GTA, Pokemon, Mario Kart, The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, Tetris, Mortal Kombat, The Sims, & Death Stranding(!) Yes, the whole prompt was the one above.

So every major model is already exceeding or will soon exceed the EU's systemic risk FLOP limit when it comes into effect next year.

An example of the power & limitations of ChatGPT agent I asked it to analyze a dataset from Kaggle, and turn it into a PPT and Excel. It made no errors, but I thought some of the data was odd. I gave that feedback & the AI figured out the data was bad and why. Human + AI needed

One implication from ChatGPT agent (not a creative name, but a descriptive one - a rare naming win!) is the labs are learning that many knowledge workers live in Excel & PowerPoint. Surprised that Microsoft did not do more to push past Copilots when they had this to themselves.

I had early access & ChatGPT agent is, I think, a big step forward for getting AIs to do real work Even at this stage, it does a good job autonomously doing research & assembling Excel files (with formulas!), PowerPoint, etc. It gives a sense of how agents are coming together

It feels significant that we crossed a line for AI music where you can continuously create entirely new AI songs in less time than it takes to listen to an AI song. Especially now that AI music has reached a point where some people enjoy it. And I assume that number will grow.

Who would have predicted that immanentizing the eschaton would be a business model?

Everyone in tech cites “Machines of Loving Grace” (I actually included it in the end of my book), but there is another amazing Brautigan poem set in the world of technology. Make sure to read the note

The research on AI companions and mental health is still very preliminary & unclear as to long-term impact. Seems like an important topic to research right now. (I would also hope that xAI is tracking anonymized data about their new companion product for known potential harms)