Go try out o1-mini and don’t be put off by the name - it’s better than o1-preview for some tasks ! It’s really really good and fast

This paper used GPT-4 to sway people about conspiracy beliefs. I think it’s a misleading description of how they used AI because it’s really about persuading people towards group think. The “conspiracies” they list range from crazy beliefs about alien technology to controversies

Counterpoint: AI could lower the overall cost of healthcare so much that could afford more doctors seeing fewer patients. Why not have the best of both worlds?

Science didn't stop when the telescope and microscope was invented. The same goes for tools like OpenAI's o1. Now is when things really get started.

We need to pause all spreadsheet development until we can get to the bottom of this spreadsheet hallucination problem… science.org/content/articl…

Very excited to announce a new podcast featuring Andrew Mayne's unique perspective on AI. The Attention Mechanism is now live on Apple Podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… Let me know which app we aren't on and I will make sure we add over the next week.

some other conversations for your enjoyment...

I tend to measure model training energy in Coachella units and inference in minutes of watching Real Housewives reruns. I don't think all the foundational model compute energy has even approached the total energy used for the Eras tour...

I agree, it’s a laziness issue, not a tokenization issue. My pedantic prompt gets all of these right a majority of the time…. I know some super smart researchers who don’t see the difference.

No, there is no new evidence that Covid originated with a raccoon dog in a market in Wuhan. The public relations blitz that surrounded the publication this week of a paper in Cell from a team whose previous papers have been debunked caught some headlines, as it was designed to

2 years ago at an internal OpenAI hackathon I showed how GPT-3.5 could draw graphs (using Mermaid.js). Now I can just click a button in Notion and have it read my previous documents and create one on the fly. It’s incredible how fast things can move.

"I have no fear that we’ll run out of things to do (even if they don’t look like “real jobs” to us today)" I agree. Imagine explaining to a farmer in 1800 what a software engineer does.

Advanced Voice is rolling out to all Plus and Team users in the ChatGPT app over the course of the week. While you’ve been patiently waiting, we’ve added Custom Instructions, Memory, five new voices, and improved accents. It can also say “Sorry I’m late” in over 50 languages.

🎙️ designing model behavior for a new interaction paradigm has been more challenging than we expected — some questions we ran into: - can the model come off as flirty or cringey when it should sound warm & approachable? - do the professional voice actors' personalities & quirks

There’s an image background removal company whose cheapest tier is 300x what it costs on Replicate. One image = $1.99. You can do 5,000 on Replicate for that. Companies are spending thousands of dollars each month and have no idea this is a commodity.