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Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by noelsusman »

manlymuppet wrote: post #398

I have nothing to say about the actual model, but unrelated--why do so many of these demos include people buying things autonomously? Even if I did trust an AI to get everything right, it's not like the AI can read my mind. If I was ordering food normally and without AI, I would want more control over the process--looking over the options, prices, thinking about what I really want. People don't know what they really…

The overwhelming majority of things I buy are things I've bought before. Alexa having access to my Amazon order history means I can just say "order a new water filter for my fridge" and the correct item shows up the next day. Far from life changing, but it's a feature I use somewhat frequently these days. Similarly, I would trust an AI to put in my usual Chipotle order or pizza from my local pizza joint.

I wouldn't want it to pick food for me from a place I've never been, though to be honest with enough order history it could probably do a decent job at it.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by altcognito »

arkensaw wrote: post #509
alpineman wrote: post #380

“allowing non-technical people to create and play custom games that go beyond rudimentary elements” Proceeds to generate the most generic, rudimentary, and unoriginal clone of Mario Kart

It's worse than that, someone else generated it using and then put it on a static page. We just have to take their word for it that GPT6 can do this. It probably can. It's not really an impressive test anymore. Claude Fable can do it. Opus can do it. I've been making one-shotted games with models for a while now, to test out their capabilities, and they all pretty much come out like this - generic bland and basic, us…

I love your game. It's wonderful and exactly the sort of thing that would showcase something interesting as opposed to just copying what's already out there. It is something I could share with my kids, and exactly the right note of fun and exploratory in a unique and even natural way. It could be extended and played with.

I usually roll my eyes when I see a comment like this because rarely do they make the points they claim to make, but I see what you're getting at. They just chose to clone someone elses work and do it in a boring way. I like OpenAI's models a lot, but they should do better.

edit - just a sidenote that I hadn't looked at the games, I just took the comment about "super-mario cart" at face value. I stand by my points 110% (even moreso perhaps), what they're showing is more polished than I expected, I assume they spent a lot of tokens on it. It is a legit shame they couldn't have spent time thinking of a better idea to illustrate something just as polished, but more interesting.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by XCSme »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #611
XCSme wrote: post #335

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?

Make cool stuff because the process is fun and makes you learn?

Before it was fun because I was learning useful things for the future.

Now it feels like whatever I learn will be obsolete in 2 months.

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Post by fwip »

echoangle wrote: post #531
manlymuppet wrote: post #398

I have nothing to say about the actual model, but unrelated--why do so many of these demos include people buying things autonomously? Even if I did trust an AI to get everything right, it's not like the AI can read my mind. If I was ordering food normally and without AI, I would want more control over the process--looking over the options, prices, thinking about what I really want. People don't know what they really…

That’s exactly the problem I have with all this agent ideas too. Imagine you had a human concierge that is just waiting for your instructions and is as smart or a bit smarter than you. Would you just tell them “plan this holiday for me” or “order this food”? I don’t even trust my friends to get this right, why would I give this to someone else?

The rich fucks who run the show do.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by XCSme »

spicyusername wrote: post #612
XCSme wrote: post #335

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?

The process was for you, the product was for the world. Now it's just the product for the world, which was where most of the value was anyways. It's a big paradigm shift and the industry is quickly going to shed people who needed the process to care about the product and we'll be left with people whose motivation to build the product (or money) is enough.

But what product? If the world can also simply ask for the product they want, instead of searching for it?

They won't even have to ask for a specific product, they will just state their problems/needs.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by Jaxkr »

driverdan wrote: post #247
abixb wrote: post #227

I want to take a step back: So, this is GPT-6 -- the natural number version release comparable to GPT-4 and GPT-5 from the past few years. The ARC-AGI-3 score is obviously impressive at 99.9% (we'll need to wait for more details on how they used the response API harness on GPT-6 Astra, wrt reasoning retention and compaction), but every other benchmarks seems to be a relatively modest improvement, comparable with any…

> If this is truly AGI (subject to one's definition of AGI still) Scoring well in a benchmark that's called AGI does not make an LLM AGI.

The goalposts of AGI will shift forever. If you showed our current capabilities to someone from 2016 it would be declared AGI.

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Post by gordonhart »

ShoeMascot wrote: post #617

Through various comments here there is a clear confusion on what AGI means. Can someone point to a definite clarification? Is it: A) “Resting” intelligence that cycles 24/7 toward some goal, and any potential emergent ambient goals? (kinda what I think) B) Consciousness itself? The ability to feel and experience alongside the thinking - even if it is toward the end of completing some task? C) “The Singularity” (whate…

Autonomously Generating Income

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by newsy-combi »

adastra22 wrote: post #538
abixb wrote: post #227

I want to take a step back: So, this is GPT-6 -- the natural number version release comparable to GPT-4 and GPT-5 from the past few years. The ARC-AGI-3 score is obviously impressive at 99.9% (we'll need to wait for more details on how they used the response API harness on GPT-6 Astra, wrt reasoning retention and compaction), but every other benchmarks seems to be a relatively modest improvement, comparable with any…

We've had AGI (artificial general intelligence) probably since the first release of ChatGPT, and certainly since the first agentic harnesses. They're just finally acknowledging what the term means.

We've had AGI since RNG! Cut the poor, unacknowledged RNG AGI some slack, will ya? It can literally solve everything when you're patient enough.

Re: GPT-6 Astra

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Post by strulovich »

FinnKuhn wrote: post #572
manlymuppet wrote: post #398

I have nothing to say about the actual model, but unrelated--why do so many of these demos include people buying things autonomously? Even if I did trust an AI to get everything right, it's not like the AI can read my mind. If I was ordering food normally and without AI, I would want more control over the process--looking over the options, prices, thinking about what I really want. People don't know what they really…

You can't even get many people to buy things online at all and if you can it's less profitable than retail, because you need to spend a lot of money to convince people, advertise to be seen, and account for returns. I think this is also due to the factors you mention. One quick example: In fashion, Inditex and Shein have about the same revenue (€39.9bn and $41.8bn in 2025), but Inditex is more than three times as pro…

I recently needed to buy some hardware for a piece of furniture.

Ran Codex, it found it for 18% less than what I found in the top Google results. It did it by finding smaller shops, applying a discount code, subscribing to a newsletter for a better code after approval, and took into account the shipping (by placing it in the cart and going to checkout) all to get me the best price.

I’m guessing without it I would have spent much more time on it and paid the original price I saw.

If you use AI agents well, they can easily save you more money than they cost, and saving money is something most people are pretty excited about.

(Disclosure: OpenAI employee)

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