i usually think articles like this miss the mark, but this one really captured the spirit of mark and jakub's partnership technologyreview.com/2025/07/31/112…

we've been testing some new methods for improving writing quality. you may have seen Sam Altman's demo in late march; GPT-5-thinking uses similar ideas it doesn't make a lot of sense to talk about better writing or worse writing and not really worth the debate. i think the model

NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse? Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge. This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵

Ok, collecting my overall GPT-5 impressions: - Biggest upgrade seems to be 4o -> 5. I rarely use these models but for the median user this is a huge upgrade. - 5-T is sometimes better than o3, sometimes worse. Finding that I often do side by side queries here, which is annoying.

In my opinion, the most important takeaway from this result is that our OpenAI International Math Olympiad (IMO) gold model is also our best competitive coding model. 🧵

What it feels like to select o3 in the Legacy Models menu

This feels like an increasingly accurate description of the public reaction to new frontier models. In truth: progress is not slowing down. Each successive delta in model intelligence is just useful to fewer and fewer people.

With AI, everybody will make their own software just like how we all 3D print our own furniture.

We wrapped up this year's competition circuit with a full score on the ICPC, after achieving 6th in the IOI, a gold medal at the IMO, and 2nd in the AtCoder Heuristic contest!

A terrific essay that captures the spirit of learning at St. John's College well (and thus also at Socratic Experience , heavily influenced by SJC), “The student essays I read were often hesitant, raw, or syntactically uneven. But their awkwardness reminded me that these were projects

Yet more evidence that a pretty major shift is happening, this time by Scott Aaronson scottaaronson.blog/?p=9183&fbclid…

I guess it's now every day until the end of time

So after all these hours talking about AI, in these last five minutes I am going to talk about: Horses. Engines, steam engines, were invented in 1700. And what followed was 200 years of steady improvement, with engines getting 20% better a decade. For the first 120 years of

Really crazy to watch CS degrees go from "do this if you want to get rich" to "degree in artisanal furniture-making" in one generation. The transition is not complete and won't be for years, but the direction is clear when top software engs are writing tweets like this.

He put an Erdos Problem into GPT 5.2Pro, no special prompting, and it *thought continuously for 41 minutes and spat out a correct proof*. It's over everyone, we had a good run.

Very good!

I think that over the next five years we are likely to see both substantial progress toward something like 'weak AGI', i.e. systems that can do most cognitive tasks humans can do, and growing diminishing returns to raw frontier model improvement in the economic sense. The point

"School worksheet with maze, 32 wide by 48 tall, rows and columns numbered, no unreachable rooms, solution in blue pen, name field reads 'ChatGPT Images 2.0' in cursive at top" Note the fusion of code and imagegen this task requires.