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Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by carljungslabtek » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

fastball wrote: post #538

dalemhurley wrote: post #302

OpenAI is killing it now that they are more focused. Killing projects like Sora et al have seen it go from irrelevant to level footing with Anthropic. Sol is so much better than Fable 5. Then we get Astra (yet to use it) few days after Fable 5.1 (which is very impressive). Codex is slightly better than Claude Code. Good on Sam Altman getting back to basics and turning OpenAI around.

Codex's lack of auto-mode is what prevents me from using it for serious work compared to Claude Code.

It has had automode for a bit now. I use it every day at work.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by perching_aix » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

gpt-6-astra-ultraspeed when?

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by drivebyhooting » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

For people skeptical of AGI. Consider the following:

15 years ago if you were the sole proprietor of these models, would you be able to hold a dozen remote junior engineer jobs? Maybe even more? These models could certainly pass all interviews with flying colors and even survive independently in a company role.

I think sole ownership of AI 15 years ago could be worth north of $10 million per year. Just as rank-and-file employees.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by low_tech_punk » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

What's the point of enlarging the screen into a room? In the 1979 Put That There demo, the user at least used his hand to point things. The model is impressive but the demo felt like a step back.

Original demo (fun ending) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyBEUyEtxQo

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by camillomiller » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC

I might be jaded, but these examples look silly, stereotyped, and absolutely how of touch with the nuances and the complexities of what real people would actually want/need to do in this specific situations.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by ryan_n » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC

bgarbiak wrote: post #536

XCSme wrote: post #354

It'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?

Yeah. I’m almost glad I didn’t invest any time in any of my 100s ideas for a startup. Most of them would be destroyed by AI by now. But, you can create cool stuff just for yourself. That’s the upside. It’s just hard to make a living on cool stuff for yourself.

For some reason, I feel much less excited about creating things myself just knowing that ai can do it in 1/10th of the time. Even if I know it wouldn’t turn into a business or make me money. I don’t know why that is, but I was much more motivated to build anything (even things just for myself) before ai. Kinda depressing

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by ryan_n » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 10:40 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #381

XCSme wrote: post #354

It'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?

Is there a point in playing Chess or Go when you know there's a computer out there that can beat you (and everyone else)?

You can play PvP in those games. Not really the same with developing software. In fact, not using ai would probably make you lose if there was some “software PvP” mode or development.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by dlubarov » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

dom96 wrote: post #449

intenex wrote: post #263

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…

AGI to me is reached once the intelligence is self motivated, i.e. it doesn't rely on us prompting it into action. I don't see how LLMs will ever get to that stage.

Wouldn't agents that do inference in an infinite loop pass that bar?

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by low_tech_punk » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

throwaway13337 wrote: post #468

That hero video is interesting. A projector and speech. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I find speech to text / text to speech (but not live audio mode) is quite comfortable and effective for coding now. The speech to text part can be frustrating if your local tts model does not have word match context for coding. Codex desktop does this remotely well but is slow. I've been experimenting with local software for m…

which raises the question, is the model in the demo actually gpt-6? or it is gpt realtime 2.1? It's unclear how gpt-6 can interact at the realtime level and if so, how can developer get access to it?

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by BoorishBears » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC

drivebyhooting wrote: post #563

For people skeptical of AGI. Consider the following: 15 years ago if you were the sole proprietor of these models, would you be able to hold a dozen remote junior engineer jobs? Maybe even more? These models could certainly pass all interviews with flying colors and even survive independently in a company role. I think sole ownership of AI 15 years ago could be worth north of $10 million per year. Just as rank-and-fi…

Cool. Being sole proprietor of AGI 15 years ago should result in monuments and religions devoted to you today.

Cancer should be cured, and we should be a post-quantum interstellar fusion-powered civilization.

I wish the AGI crowd would finally shut up now that it's clear no one is even trying for AGI (OpenAI revised that to "$100B in profit")

What we're getting is incredible, where we're headed is incredible, but some people have such a fetish for futuretelling they can't just shut up and enjoy the ride.