GPT-6 Astra • Hacker News Board

Re: GPT-6 Astra

#321

Post by petilon » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:54 PM UTC

petilon wrote: post #135

This is wild: OpenAI is basically declaring that AGI is here. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989601/o... “If we fast-forward a couple of years, and we look back and say, ‘When was it, really, that AGI was created?’ I think it’s going to be about this time, and I think it might be about this model,” OpenAI president Greg Brockman said during a Thursday press briefing. Later in the call, he added,…

Sam Altman himself has said it is not AGI unless it can discover novel physics.

https://x.com/burny_tech/status/1725233117055553938

In the tweet Sam Altman is quoted as saying: "If (for example) super intelligence can't discover novel physics I don't think it's a superintelligence. And teaching it to clone the behavior of humans and human text - I don't think that's going to get there. And so there's this question which has been debated in the field for a long time: what do we have to do in addition to a language model to make a system that can go discover new physics?"

I think this is a reasonable criteria for declaring AGI. So can GPT-6 do it? OpenAI says it has helped solve long-standing open problems in mathematics. No word on novel physics.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

#322

Post by Yajirobe » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:55 PM UTC

Planktonne wrote: post #256

I'm sure it's going to do great on all sorts of benchmarks, but the video--the actual marketing video that if anything is incentivised to overstate things--is full of careful cuts just before it would do anything that still wouldn't actually be that impressive. It's AGI, and it's going to upload photos, or change a background slide colour. Even the people hyping it up, who believe that it's really artificial intellig…

The house of cards is starting to fall apart

Re: GPT-6 Astra

#323

Post by davidwritesbugs » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:55 PM UTC

BeetleB wrote: post #145

It's been over an hour, Simon! Where's the Pelican?

exactly, there's no meaningful discussion without the pelican.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

#324

Post by rbreve » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:55 PM UTC

Where is the cure for cancer?

Re: GPT-6 Astra

#325

Post by XCSme » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:56 PM UTC

tintor wrote: post #78

ARC AGI-3 saturated by Astra! https://arcprize.org/leaderboard

The no-reasoning version scores 35% while the low reasoning one scores 17%? What?

Re: GPT-6 Astra

#326

Post by Yajirobe » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:56 PM UTC

Chinjut wrote: post #318

What is going to become of life for those of us who do not work at AI labs and are unlikely to be hired by AI labs, despite all the years we put into learning coding, math, etc, as we were told to do? Those of us who made the mistake of studying anything other than machine learning. How will we make a living? (We don't live in a world that seems likely to distribute gains widely instead of largely to the handful of a…

AGI-level model is perpetually 18 months away. Your job will be fine.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

#327

Post by alpineman » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:56 PM UTC

That Astra ‘city scene’ is about as creative as Doha in real life (not very)

Re: GPT-6 Astra

#328

Post by wilg » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:56 PM UTC

Planktonne wrote: post #256

I'm sure it's going to do great on all sorts of benchmarks, but the video--the actual marketing video that if anything is incentivised to overstate things--is full of careful cuts just before it would do anything that still wouldn't actually be that impressive. It's AGI, and it's going to upload photos, or change a background slide colour. Even the people hyping it up, who believe that it's really artificial intellig…

are we really having to explain to you from first principles in 2026 what things AI can do?

Re: GPT-6 Astra

#329

Post by bbor » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:57 PM UTC

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #292

intenex wrote: post #248

The ARC-AGI-3 scorecard is extremely misleading given that it clearly states itself that "with [the responses API] harness, we estimate Sol would score in the ballpark of ~30%." but it shows a score of 7.8% for GPT-5.6 Sol presumably since if they updated the percentage for GPT-5.6 Sol to the score it would receive with the responses API harness they used for GPT-6 Astra they'd have to do the same for the percentage…

My definition of AGI certainly doesn't entail passing a benchmark that some random person arbitrarily labelled AGI to make it sound cooler.

And my definition of climate change doesn't entail passing some arbitrary benchmarks[1] that some random person arbitrarily labelled a problem to make it sound more dangerous.

It's obvious that these scientists are in bad faith, as they've invested way too much of their lives into the field being real -- they're just playing up the data. Common sense tells me that winter is still happening, anyway; what's the big fuss?

(/s, cause you never know these days)

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/The_Plan...

Re: GPT-6 Astra

#330

Post by codruterdei » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 8:57 PM UTC

I was actually wondering when they will release the new Opel Astra model. Good and reliable car, wondering if we can say the same thing about this model and its impact on the market.