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It also looks like they're saturating the test, with one LLM hitting the maximum possible score. ( https://www.trackingai.org/home ) The test wasn't made to accurately measure IQs …

The paper also fails to show that their central example, Einstein, relied on sensory experience for his intuition leaps rather than general reasoning. They just kind of claim that …

Only a tiny, tiny fraction of the parameters are encoding information that's specific to a particular programming language. Even if you could remove those without degrading perform…

The problem is Claude Fable is now better than most programmers I know at software architecture and performance optimization as well.

That's a good reason to use a dishwasher, and you should keep doing it. But the overall waste is small and people aren't going to care. I'm not saying people who already have a dis…

Sure, but then there's no such thing as a network that isn't a classifier. Every physically computable function that terminates in finite time will map an input to a fixed set of o…

The LLM has processed two data modalities derived from the apple (text and vision). Your brain processed a third (taste). But it is still just a data stream, sensing compounds and …

LLMs are not classifiers. A classifier is an algorithm or neural net that assigns a label from a fixed set of labels to an input. You can broaden the definition of classifier to an…

I have a dishwasher and I still usually just hand wash. It takes about 10 seconds to wash a dish. The side benefit is all your dishes are always available. With the dishwasher, up …

Unitree's R1 humanoid robot is only about $6000, and it's still a nascent, smallish scale technology. They will come down. If the future home robots are any good, it saves you from…

Yes, much like that. If he hadn't destroyed evidence, he could have argued it was malicious prosecution.

What you're describing is malicious prosecution or abuse of process. It's illegal and it would destroy the prosecution's case. Not only that, but the victim could sue for damages.

The irony is in this case the in-context and classifier "guardrails" would have almost certainly stopped the attack while their attempts at your definition of guardrails (the sandb…

It's a strange experiment. Claude and GPT aren't generating the video. They're directing and editing it, and they request video from a generative video model using mainly text-to-v…

The UNESCO/World Bank literacy rate is basically defined how you thought. But high income countries don't usually report this because literacy by this measure is nearly universal. …

Questions like that cost a tiny fraction of a cent. "What's the capital of Sri Lanka?" cost a fifth of a cent at GPT 5.5 API price, and would cost a fraction of that if the questio…

The usage is irrelevant if we're interested in cost per token. If you use it half as much, you get half as many tokens at half the cost. It's still $5.56 in electricity per million…

Not much point in serfdom when they don't have use for human labor.

> I feel like you're also doing something weird—sorta strawmanning and sorta being conveniently inconsistent. You're reframing his argument as something much softer. I'm going to f…

You're not really engaging with PG's argument so much as nitpicking around the edges. Are people becoming billionaires primarily by cheating and stealing, or by making something pe…

Anthropic's plan may not have great odds, but your proposal is orders of magnitude worse. There are plenty of groups opposing AI. They don't get billions in investment. They don't …

It means Mythos/Fable was the strongest model globally, not just the newest model from a company.

That's not a reason for Waymo to give rides at a major loss. Heavy users are the ones that are going to buy the unlimited package. If you do just one average trip per day (there an…

$100 per month is way, way too cheap for unlimited rides. That's about 10x cheaper than the amortized monthly cost for owning an average car, without the headache of doing maintena…

These numbers don't mean anything without a denominator. You could burn $10 million/month of tokens if you want. We want to know how the cost per unit of useful output compares to …