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Re: OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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Post by famouswaffles » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:22 PM UTC

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #165

pbrum wrote: post #134

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Don't know if you're referring to the headline or the body (which is paywalled). The current headline reads "OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with its latest AI model". Which makes me wonder whether FT itself changed a headline along the lines of what you wrote in the past few minutes?

Apparently Greg Brockman said that as far as he's concerned it may be AGI, or something along those lines. OTOH OpenAI have their own meaningless definition of AGI as "able to do most commercially valuable work" or somesuch, which I'm sure is not true, and is also not what I'd call AGI. If it can't learn for itself, then it's certainly not AGI. The biggest significance of anyone at OpenAI calling it AGI is their cont…

>OTOH OpenAI have their own meaningless definition of AGI as "able to do most commercially valuable work" or somesuch, which I'm sure is not true, and is also not what I'd call AGI.

It's not meaningless. Specifically it is - "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". In fact, it's one of the most meaningful definitions out there.

>If it can't learn for itself, then it's certainly not AGI.

Now this is meaningless.

>The biggest significance of anyone at OpenAI calling it AGI is their contract with Microsoft, giving MSFT access to all their IP, is based around them having achieved AGI, but presumably they can't just declare that unilaterally.

They can't declare it unilaterally, and those deals have changed significantly. Microsoft’s license to OpenAI models and products runs through 2032, and explicitly includes post-AGI models.

https://openai.com/index/next-chapter-of-microsoft-openai-pa...

Re: OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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Post by Planktonne » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:23 PM UTC

vonneumannstan wrote: post #111

bogzz wrote: post #75

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It also has to do something naughty, preferably in a menacing swarm.

Honestly I find these cavalier statements to be in incredibly poor taste. Unless you are completely blind it's obvious that AI is the most significant piece of technology invented since the Atomic Bomb and could very well be the most important thing ever built by Humans full stop. This kind of dismissive attitude is childish and will likely lead to incredibly bad outcomes for humanity.

The atomic bomb destroyed cities and changed the face of war.

The launch video for Astra has 'can upload a photo to Ebay' as a highlight.

Re: OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:23 PM UTC

cesarvarela wrote: post #166

So, on the one hand, we have AGI; on the other, the release page is returning 500s.

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Re: OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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Post by jiggawatts » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:24 PM UTC

zzleeper wrote: post #167

lofaszvanitt wrote: post #128

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1000 loc of script, why even leave it there for the night? were there rocket trajectory calculations??? I don't think so. should be ready in 5 mins tops. why people make their own lives harder? You should have some basic context file about software practices you prefer, otherwise it gets bloated.

I just went to bed and left it running; was expecting maybe 20 minutes :) And I did gave the program a bunch of code guides -- this [1] for instance -- which included quotes like "Prefer straightforward code over clever code." but somehow that didn't matter. [1] https://github.com/sergiocorreia/overengineered-rand-mcnally...

You write many pages telling the AI to split and structure the scripts into a bunch of folders, so why are you surprised it did exactly that!?

I just ask it verbatim “recommend some cleanup” with /plan, review, and then apply.

Re: OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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Post by seydor » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:26 PM UTC

aldanor wrote: post #175

cesarvarela wrote: post #166

So, on the one hand, we have AGI; on the other, the release page is returning 500s.

Artificial general incompetence?

To err is to be generally intelligent

Re: OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:27 PM UTC

famouswaffles wrote: post #211

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #165

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Apparently Greg Brockman said that as far as he's concerned it may be AGI, or something along those lines. OTOH OpenAI have their own meaningless definition of AGI as "able to do most commercially valuable work" or somesuch, which I'm sure is not true, and is also not what I'd call AGI. If it can't learn for itself, then it's certainly not AGI. The biggest significance of anyone at OpenAI calling it AGI is their cont…

>OTOH OpenAI have their own meaningless definition of AGI as "able to do most commercially valuable work" or somesuch, which I'm sure is not true, and is also not what I'd call AGI. It's not meaningless. Specifically it is - "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". In fact, it's one of the most meaningful definitions out there. >If it can't learn for itself, then it's cer…

> It's not meaningless. In fact, it's one of the more meaningful definitions out there.

Well, it's commercially meaningful, but it's not meaningful it terms of how close we are to achieving human intelligence.

But which one you care about is up to you. If you are all about the money and don't care about human intelligence then for sure go with OpenAI's definition.

Re: OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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Post by gantrol » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:27 PM UTC

> GPT-6 Astra is rolling out today to a limited set of organizations

It sound like more Claude than OpenAI...

Re: OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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Post by kd913 » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:27 PM UTC

nemomarx wrote: post #198

kingleopold wrote: post #182

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just because they have smart AI, it does not mean they are great at software and cdn.

if it's really smart AI you might expect them to have it create the software and cdn don't they use their coding agents internally?

Always wondered why making something like a rust memory safe Firefox, Linux, vlc, ffmpeg or curl isn’t a benchmark for these LLMs.

Re: OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:29 PM UTC

simonatllocus wrote: post #180

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #165

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Apparently Greg Brockman said that as far as he's concerned it may be AGI, or something along those lines. OTOH OpenAI have their own meaningless definition of AGI as "able to do most commercially valuable work" or somesuch, which I'm sure is not true, and is also not what I'd call AGI. If it can't learn for itself, then it's certainly not AGI. The biggest significance of anyone at OpenAI calling it AGI is their cont…

Anyone can call anything AGI to be honest, which is why I don't take any large AI company's word for this, cause they just don't define AGI

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Re: OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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Post by dgellow » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC

vonneumannstan wrote: post #188

dgellow wrote: post #127

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Please tell me that’s satire, it’s literally impossible to differentiate from actual AI boosters

You have blinders on. AI is becoming more dangerous by the day.

I’m on HN almost every day advocating for a complete ban of the technology because of its risks and externalities…