That Astra ‘city scene’ is about as creative as Doha in real life (not very)
GPT-6 Astra
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#362I'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?
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#363The 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...
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#364I 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.
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#365I'm going to call it. By 2030 all software is done and complete. But we are going to have more and new jobs.
'all' software? aircraft flight control systems? infant heart monitors? drug manufacturing dose calibration controllers?
Yes. I had Codex rewrite and fix all of this in one shot earlier today (using Typescript). Unfortunately, I can not show you the code, because I do not know how this "git" program works but the AI keeps talking about it.
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#366Where is the cure for cancer?
We need CancerBench
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#367Is anyone else just exhausted by the pace of all this. The models change constantly and relentlessly and so does the pricing, basically weekly at this point between all the labs. It feels nearly impossible to have any rigorous approach when choosing a particular model and price point for a task and more like blindly picking one. The time period needed to actually get familiar with various models to a degree you can i…
> The models change constantly and relentlessly and so does the pricing, basically weekly at this point between all the labs.
A dev in my team saw a new model and changed one application to use said model (essentially changing the contents of a url). One week later I received an escalation from the CTO of the company that our pace of weekly usage was in the millions of dollars (rather than low hundred thousands). Turns out that the new model was 5x more expensive but no one noticed.
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#368It's fun, but every new model release makes me even less interested to create cool stuff. Like, what's the point, if the next AI can do it in 5 seconds?
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#369Is anyone else just exhausted by the pace of all this. The models change constantly and relentlessly and so does the pricing, basically weekly at this point between all the labs. It feels nearly impossible to have any rigorous approach when choosing a particular model and price point for a task and more like blindly picking one. The time period needed to actually get familiar with various models to a degree you can i…
That's how cutting edge tech has always worked. Imagine buying a shiny new PC in the 90s only to see it become practically obsolete within a year.
Or you could buy a PC with a Celeron CPU, which was obsolete way before launch.
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#370The 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…
What does "AGI" or "effective AGI" even mean, and why should anyone even care whether this unclear thing has been "reached" or not?
Computer chips got faster, but 2026 edition. Why the artificial ceiling/category/goal labelled "AGI"?
I'd much rather like to talk about what this enables, instead of discussing whether a category someone made up applies here or not.