In September 2024, OpenAI released a new family of models called o1. The company described them as “reasoning” models, designed to “spend more time thinking before responding.” The interface changed accordingly. Instead of words appearing immediately, users now watched a...
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Google Executive's Warni...
In September 2024, Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google X, appeared in a widely circulated video clip declaring that current AI models are “sentient in every possible way.” He went further, saying they are “definitely aware” and capable...
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Consciousness as a User ...
On September 24, 2024, OpenAI began rolling out Advanced Voice Mode to ChatGPT subscribers. The feature allows real-time spoken conversation with the model, but what drew attention was not the functionality. It was the voice. The new system pauses, breathes,...
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Viral Claims: Assessing ...
In early March 2024, a post from an Anthropic prompt engineer went viral. Alex Albert had been running internal evaluations on Claude 3 Opus, the company’s newest model. One test, called “needle in a haystack,” involved hiding a specific sentence...
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Testing the Boundaries: ...
In March 2023, a team from Microsoft Research published a paper titled “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4.” The 155-page document argued that GPT-4 displayed “a level of general intelligence” across a remarkably wide range of tasks,...