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Covering the biggest news of the century - the arrival of smarter-than-human AI. The author of Simple Bench, exposing the remaining human-LLM reasoning gap.

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  • Wednesday · 16 min

    OpenAI’s New ImageGen is Unexpectedly Epic … (ft. Reve, Imagen 3, Midjourney etc)

    I’ve spent quite a while testing the new 4o ImageGen from OpenAI, and comparing it to models released just yesterday, like Reve, Midjourney, Imagen 3, as well as models not yet out. https://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Rarely in AI is one model so much better than the rest, as we can see on the chatbot-side of things. Yes, I have a video imminent on Gemini 2.5 and DeepSeek. But for ImageGen, I was very impressed, as you’ll see. Still not perfect, don’t show it a mirror for example, and definitely not photorealistic, but incredibly obedient. You’ll see what I mean. What Sam Altman calls ‘Images in ChatGPT’ will be available to everyone apparently, even free users. There are some filters, but I am sure everyone will soon have access to an unfiltered model of its strength, and its easy to imagine what will come of that. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:07 - Prompt Adherence, vs Reve, Midjourney, Imagen 3 + one other 03:39 - Idioms 04:20 - Thumbnails? 05:56 - Captions / Infographics 07:20 - Filters and Public Figures + Gray Swan 08:30 - Sora? 08:49 - Ethnicities/hands 09:09 - Where’s Waldo? 10:33 - Selfies and Photorealism Images with ChatGPT/4o ImageGen: https://chatgpt.com/ Imagen 3: https://labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx Reve: https://preview.reve.art/app Altman Announcement: https://x.com/sama/status/1904598788687487422 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 24 min

    Is GPT-5.1 Really an Upgrade? But Models Can Auto-Hack Govts, so … there’s that

    A lot just got released in the last 36 hours, and it will all affect hundreds of millions of people. 10 details you would miss if you just read the headlines, from GPT 5.1 regressions, to how Claude hacked Govt Agencies, to SIMA 2, and Musical Turing Tests. https://assemblyai.com/aiexplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:56 - GPT 5.1 Smarter? 01:47 - Some Regressions 03:22 - Sycophancy? 05:22 - Claude Auto-Hacking 06:16 - Jailbreaking through Granularity 08:22 - This Will be Re-used 09:30 - Hallucinating Hacker 09:57 - Surprisingly Neutral Tone 12:18 - SIMA 2 14:10 - Alpha Parallels 17:24 - AI Music AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained GPT 5.1 Announcement: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/ System Card: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/4173ec8d-1229-47db-96de-06d87147e07e/5_1_system_card.pdf Benchmarks: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-for-developers/ Simple Bench: https://lmcouncil.ai/benchmarks Auto-Hacking: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1989033793190277618 https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage Report: https://assets.anthropic.com/m/ec212e6566a0d47/original/Disrupting-the-first-reported-AI-orchestrated-cyber-espionage-campaign.pdf Sima 2 Announcement: https://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d-worlds/ https://x.com/amoufarek/status/1988986075331858693 Scepticism: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/13/1127921/google-deepmind-is-using-gemini-to-train-agents-inside-goat-simulator-3/ Voyager: https://voyager.minedojo.org/ Reuters Music: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/are-you-listening-bots-survey-shows-ai-music-is-virtually-undetectable-2025-11-12/ https://lmcouncil.ai Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 24 min

    Gemini 3.1 Pro and the Downfall of Benchmarks: Welcome to the Vibe Era of AI

    Do we have a new best AI model, or do we have the downfall of benchmarks in general, as a way of capturing machine intelligence? Full breakdown of Gemini 3.1 Pro, guest-starring the new Sonnet 4.6, plus analysis from 7 papers/posts that will give you much needed context. Oh, and a new record on Simple Bench! https://epoch.ai/ai-explained-datacenters Check out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, and code INSIDER15 for Pro: https://lmcouncil.ai AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:30 - Post-training Dominance 04:00 - ARC-AGI 2 Caveat 05:54 - Simple Bench Record 08:22 - Hallucination Caveat 10:05 - Model Card 11:12 - Exponential Coming 12:20 - Amodei on Generalizing 15:10 - One True Benchmark? 17:02 - Other Metrics… Gemini 3.1 Model Card: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Gemini-3-1-Pro-Model-Card.pdf Release: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/ Where are Agents deployed?: https://www.anthropic.com/research/measuring-agent-autonomy Newsletter Post: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/p/4-ai-numbers-that-surprised-me-this-week Hallucination AA: https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience Melanie Mitchell: https://x.com/MelMitchell1/status/2022738363548340526 ARC-AGI-2: https://x.com/arcprize/status/2024522812728496470/photo/1 Chollet on Agentic Coding and ML: https://x.com/fchollet/status/2024519439140737442 METR Caveat: https://metr.org/notes/2026-01-22-time-horizon-limitations/ Talaas Fast: https://chatjimmy.ai/ Amodei Interview Continual learning: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dario-amodei-2?open=false#%C2%A7002942-is-continual-learning-necessary-how-will-it-be-solved Metaculus FutureEval: https://www.metaculus.com/futureeval/ Next Vid to Watch: https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-you-need-to-150647292 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 18 min

    'Show Your Working': ChatGPT Performance Doubled w/ Process Rewards (+Synthetic Data Event Horizon)

    I have not only read the Let's Verify step by Step paper released less than 24 hours ago, I have combed the release notes and appendix, read most of the linked papers and done my own tests. It's true, performance is massively boosted, and not just for mathematics but science and other domains too. I'll show you comparisons with GPT 3 and PaLM 2, and demonstrate that new records are coming soon. I will also cover the 'synthetic data event horizon' and what might have gone into GPT 4's training. I'll show you how PRM works vs ORM, and why finetuning is still relevant. Plus I'll cover reaction from Jan Leike, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman and more. I will also feature the highly relevant paper 'Language Models Don’t Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting'. I'll also give a glimpse from Rob Miles about just how weirdly GPT 4 might think. Verify Paper: https://cdn.openai.com/improving-mathematical-reasoning-with-process-supervision/Lets_Verify_Step_by_Step.pdf Release Page: https://openai.com/research/improving-mathematical-reasoning-with-process-supervision#samples Altman tweet: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1664018190840614912 Language Models Don’t Always Say What They Think: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.04388.pdf Sparks of AGI MATH Comparison: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712v5.pdf PaLM 2 Comparison: https://ai.google/static/documents/palm2techreport.pdf AP Chemistry Calc: https://www.albert.io/blog/ap-chemistry-score-calculator/ Altman Synthetic Data (min 4): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1egAKCKPKCk&t=764s Anthropic View: https://www.anthropic.com/index/core-views-on-ai-safety Jan Leike Tweet: https://twitter.com/janleike/status/1663977494058520576 Rob Miles' Tweet: https://twitter.com/robertskmiles/status/1663534255249453056 https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 16 min

    GPT 5 Will be Released 'Incrementally' - 5 Points from Brockman Statement [plus Timelines and Safety]

    Greg Brockman just revealed the thinking of OpenAI on how best to release GPT 5. He spoke of a 'continuum of better AIs' and I will break it all down in simple terms. With evidence from multiple sources, including the GPT 4 Technical report, I will go over each of the 5 telling points he made on Twitter, and feature external evidence from Ilya Sutskever, the Center for Humane Technology, Emad Mostaque, the Guardian and more. To learn more about capability improvements, do check out my previous GPT 5 video. My First GPT 5 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4aR_smQgxY&t=634s Brockman Tweet: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1646183424024268800 GPT 4 Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf Sutskever Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf1o0TQzry8&t=540s OpenAI Data and Form: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7039943-data-usage-for-consumer-services-faq https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is-used-to-improve-model-performance AI Dilemma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ Economist Exam: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/06/chatgpt-ai-bryan-caplan-interview Emad Mostaque Tweet: https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1641091842812026882 Sparks of AGI Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c Nvidia Data Center Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY61ExKhnfA&t=69s https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 28 min

    Gemini 3 Pro: Breakdown

    Gemini 3 Pro is out, and records fell like snowflakes in Svalbard. No long description, chapters or links today, huge technical difficulties, including with audio, so just want to publish asap. https://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explained https://lmcouncil.ai AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 18 min

    9 AI Developments: HeyGen 2.0 to AjaxGPT, Open Interpreter to NExT-GPT and Roblox AI

    The 9 new AI developments that I genuinely feel will be the most impactful, from insane video dubbing and translation to Apple Ajax and Google Gemini leaks, Roblox AI to an Open Interpreter Demo. https://www.metaculus.com/ai/?utm_source=ai_explained&utm_campaign=ai_explained https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained HeyGen Avatar 2.0 Video Translate: https://labs.heygen.com/video-translate Altman Original Testimony: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OXaTpBZGlSo Open Interpreter: https://twitter.com/hellokillian/status/1699156860073640038 https://openinterpreter.com/ Sam Altman Interview This Week, Norges Bank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O77UyYK51s4 Language Models As Optimizers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.03409.pdf Bipartisan AI Act: https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1700147410880569475/photo/1 Suleyman 80,000 Hours: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/mustafa-suleyman-getting-washington-and-silicon-valley-to-tame-ai/ New York Times IRS AI: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/politics/irs-deploys-artificial-intelligence-to-target-rich-partnerships.html Google Gemini News: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-nears-release-of-gemini-ai-to-rival-openai?rc=sy0ihq Palm 2 Technical Report: https://ai.google/static/documents/palm2techreport.pdf Meta Llama 3: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-is-developing-a-new-more-powerful-ai-system-as-technology-race-escalates-decf9451 https://twitter.com/agikoala/status/1695125016764157988 Roblox AI: https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1701626833970794989 Smell2Text: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1701611251376497046 NExT-GPT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.05519.pdf Apple Ajax GPT: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-boosts-spending-to-develop-conversational-ai?rc=sy0ihq AI Art: https://twitter.com/MrUgleh/status/1702041188482658758/photo/4 https://discord.gg/WxxeHG7HCV https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 18 min

    Deadline Day for Autonomous AI Weapons and Mass Surveillance

    Will Anthropic be forced to make a version of Claude for war? And does a new paper expose the risks of Claude agents, in both OpenClaw and the field of war? Plus, 5 more twists in the story of the Pentagon versus Anthropic + some AI lab employees, and a petition that could change everything, or nothing... Check out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, and code INSIDER15 for paid tiers: https://lmcouncil.ai AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:44 - Deadline Day + Petition 02:42 - Twist 1: Existing Deal 03:26 - Twist 2: Existing Policy 04:21 - Twist 3: Twin Threats 05:54 - Twist 4: Interesting Objections 11:32 - Twist 5: Anthropic’s Dropped Policy Dario Statement: https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war Google/OpenAI Petition: https://notdivided.org/ Axios on Amodei Rejection: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/26/anthropic-rejects-pentagon-ai-terms FT on US Threat: https://www.ft.com/content/11d27612-d6c5-4cf7-94dd-f65603549b7f Politico on Latest: https://archive.ph/20260227013117/https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/incoherent-hegseths-anthropic-ultimatum-confounds-ai-policymakers-00800135 The Verge on Current Deal: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/883456/anthropic-pentagon-department-of-defense-negotiations Anthropic RSP change: https://www.anthropic.com/news/responsible-scaling-policy-v3 Time Magazine on RSP: https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/ Agent of Chaos Paper: https://x.com/NatalieShapira/status/2026062499599319526 AI Agent Reliability Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16666 My Patreon Video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/real-mystery-ai-151647211 Patreon Documentary: https://www.patreon.com/posts/our-new-age-of-133960279 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 18 min

    Hassabis, Altman and AGI Labs Unite - AI Extinction Risk Statement [ft. Sutskever, Hinton + Voyager]

    The leaders of almost all of the world's top AGI Labs have united to put out a statement on AI Extinction Risk, and how mitigating it should be a global priority. This video covers not just the statement and the signatories, including names as diverse as Geoffrey Hinton, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Harris and Lex Fridman, but also goes deeper into the 8 Examples of AI Risk outlined at the same time by the Center for AI Safety. Top academics from China join in, while Meta demurs, claiming autoregressive LLMs will 'never be given agency'. I briefly cover the Voyager paper, in which GPT 4 is given agency to play Minecraft, and does so at SOTA levels. Statement: https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk Natural Selection Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.16200.pdf Yann LeCun on 20VC w/ Harry Stebbings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgWaowYiBPM Voyager Agency Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.16291.pdf Karpathy Tweet: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1663392621690249218 Hassabis Benefit Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHFmIknP_Hc Stanislav Petrov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov Bengio Blog: https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/05/07/ai-scientists-safe-and-useful-ai/ https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 17 min

    Can GPT 4 Prompt Itself? MemoryGPT, AutoGPT, Jarvis, Claude-Next [10x GPT 4!] and more...

    Can GPT 4 Prompt itself? Give it a mission and it will come up with the prompts. This video showcases the rise of autonomous AI, including 5 major developments in the last 48 hours. Starting with the OG Auto-GPT, we see how it quickly gain text-to-speech, coding and more. Karpathy weighs in and then we see how you can now create an app with just your voice, with a Jarvis demo and another route via Imagica.AI. I then showcase MemoryGPT, a brand new model that can permanently store previous conversations and remembers topics the next time you ask. I also cover the concerningly rise of models such as ChaosGPT that show how people will create malicious goal-seeking models just for fun. The video shows how you can now create a shareable bot on poe.com, with any personality you like (images were from Midjourney v5) and what Anthropic are working on with Claude Next [plus Nvidia million x quote]. You'll see how Microsoft Jarvis, using HuggingGPT, is hit and miss, and how Sebastien Bubeck shows we are not even seeing the raw potential of GPT 4. I end with a disagreement between Yudkowsky and Altman, via Baby AGI, on whether we can use AGI to align AGI. Illustration by Eva Bee: https://www.instagram.com/evabee_draws/?hl=en Auto-GPT: https://github.com/Torantulino/Auto-GPT With Coding: https://twitter.com/SigGravitas/status/1642181498278408193 With Text-to-speech: https://twitter.com/RokStrnisa/status/1643308753331036165 Karpathy Thoughts: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1642607620673634304 Mckay Wrigley: https://mobile.twitter.com/mckaywrigley/status/1644034309253394433 Imagica.AI: https://www.imagica.ai/ MemoryGPT: https://twitter.com/rikvk01/status/1644787327057776645 Create a Bot: https://poe.com/ TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anthropics-5b-4-year-plan-to-take-on-openai/ Nvidia: https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2023/02/22/nvidia-nvda-q4-2023-earnings-call-transcript/ HuggingFace Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/microsoft/HuggingGPT {Get the openai api key from https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys and huggingface token from https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/security-tokens, (make sure to select 'write'). Press submit on the keys first and remember to use a smallish image. Recursive Agent: https://twitter.com/DeveloperHarris/status/1643080752698130432 Bubeck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c Baby AGI and Yudkowsky: https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1640511156254289926 Altman First Quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPJIpx3KscY And 2nd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHoWGNQRXb0 Chaos GPT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7YJIpkk7KM https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 19 min

    Nano Banana Pro: But Did You Catch These 10 Details?

    Nano Banana Pro is no incremental upgrade. From double exposures to almost (!) perfect infographics, comic strips, to pricing, benchmarks and more, I go through 10 facets of the new, model you won’t get just from reading the headlines. Definitely worth watching before you use it for work… http://assemblyai.com/aiexplained Nano Pro also available on my solo-made app (Pro Tier): https://lmcouncil.ai and at ....https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat Release: https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/ https://blog.google/products/gemini/prompting-tips-nano-banana-pro/ https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-image-developers/ Synth: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1991526272435122375 AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 28 min

    What the New ChatGPT 5.4 Means for the World

    Just 48 hours after releasing GPT 5.3 Instant, OpenAI have released GPT 5.4 Thinking, so either their is an imminent singularity or perhaps we are being distracted from other news. This video will give 9 crucial bits of context, not just on the GPT 5.4 drop but on the background to the meltdown between the Pentagon and Anthropic. What does this say about the state of AI progress, your job, and what is next. Check out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, and code INSIDER15 for 15% off paid tiers: https://lmcouncil.ai AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:06: GPT 5.4 Breakdown 05:06 - Closing the Loop 06:35 - Spiky Performance 10:31 - Advice 11:32 - Less Encouraging Developments - Fired Like Dogs 17:45 - But Used in Iran GPT 5.4: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/ Hallucinations: https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience Investment Banking Bench: https://x.com/bradlightcap/status/2029684672343728452 Move 37: https://x.com/nasqret/status/2029628846518010099 System Card: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-4-thinking/gpt-5-4-thinking.pdf Prediction Market Scandal: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fires-employee-insider-trading-polymarket-kalshi/ GPT 5.3 Instant: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-instant/ GDPVal: https://openai.com/index/gdpval/ Claude in Iran: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthropic-ai-iran-campaign ‘Like Dogs’: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2029605783311470679 Altman leak: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/sam-altman-tells-openai-staff-operational-decisions-up-to-government.html Original 2024 Switch: https://archive.fo/20240116172526/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-16/openai-working-with-us-military-on-cybersecurity-tools-for-veterans#selection-6173.83-6173.226 Amodei Original Memo: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/read-anthropic-ceos-memo-attacking-openais-mendacious-pentagon-announcement?rc=sy0ihq Anthropic Apology: https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war OpenAI Employee Reaction: https://x.com/tszzl/status/2029334980481212820 DoD Suppler Risk: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/05/anthropic-pentagon-ai-claude-iran.html Atlantic Exclusive: https://archive.fo/20260301152646/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/inside-anthropics-killer-robot-dispute-with-the-pentagon/686200/#selection-941.61-941.212 No Negotiation: https://x.com/USWREMichael/status/2029754965778907493 $20B Doubling: https://archive.ph/20260304111124/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-03/anthropic-nears-20-billion-revenue-run-rate-amid-pentagon-feud March 2022 Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAA6PZkek4A https://lmcouncil.ai/ Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 19 min

    12 New Code Interpreter Uses (Image to 3D, Book Scans, Multiple Datasets, Error Analysis ... )

    Code Interpreter could be the ultimate plug-in, and you judge for yourself by the end of these 12 examples. If you didn't have to re-evaluate after my previous 23 use cases, try these! From scanning 340k word books (Anna Karenina), to correlating multiple files simultaneously, from ASCII Art to advanced mathematics, and from spotting a data error in a massive spreadsheet to outputting pdfs and powerpoints, GPT 4 has been given a lot of work by me these last few days. See for yourself, and suggest more plug in experiments to be run! https://www.contextures.com/excelsampledatafoodsales.html https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 19 min

    Do We Get the $100 Trillion AI Windfall? Sam Altman's Plans, Jobs and the Falling Cost of Intelligence

    Sam Altman predicted this week that OpenAI could capture up to $100 trillion of the world's wealth. But what are his plans for OpenAI to distribute that wealth? I analyse all three plans, cover his financial stake, his case for UBI, a science org and the American Equity Fund. From papers and interviews released in recent days, I go over his predictions for massive inequality, which jobs will be impacted most, what tasks OpenAI thinks will be automated, recent surveys of business leaders and their plans to use ChatGPT for job replacement, the Goldman Sachs job analysis and which jobs Altman thinks will be hit first (customer service). I also cover two recent productivity experiments to test the impact of GPT models and the YouGov survey on stopping it all. President Biden weighs in, Levi's gets backlash, Wired thinks human work has a chance and Sam reveals his back-up plan to use AGI to solve AGI's problems. NYT Altman Plans: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/technology/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt.html WSJ piece on Altman: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-b0e1c8c9 Strictly VC interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebjkD1Om4uw&t=350s Altman UBI: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1521939983673659392 Techcrunch UBI: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/the-non-profits-accelerating-sam-altmans-ai-vision/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABrvoC-VT5Tq17g7IGo-RzdxAjrhn0J_XSKW39BWUUiAqyv_255bToPEhUVluxzteG1R7Iv57IjRAdG8h7q2mSPSlPmlXgGKB7gEH83oWnM7bHxSwIQ6HEXAFxtNTp_tKuCV7wVol3yYRY8f1VsBmGGFKlv7vAg6NcDqGU1FHWzX Altman Blog: https://moores.samaltman.com/ Altman Fridman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qof80Sy3__8 Altman Greylock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHoWGNQRXb0 Altman 'Get Rich' Tweet: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1625186078599811072?lang=en GPTs are GPTs: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.10130.pdf Sutskever Fridman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13CZPWmke6A&t=3945s ResumeBuilder Survey: https://www.resumebuilder.com/1-in-4-companies-have-already-replaced-workers-with-chatgpt/ Goldman Sachs Analysis: https://app.box.com/s/1gci1adaueg3i5ajsin3gg62rm7b00h4 GPT 4 Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf Altman AI Field Notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPJIpx3KscY Github Experiment: https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-copilots-impact-on-developer-productivity-and-happiness/ White Collar Experiment: https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Noy_Zhang_1.pdf YouGov Survey: https://today.yougov.com/topics/technology/survey-results/daily/2023/04/03/ad825/2 Biden AI Tweet: https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1643359035398184960 Levis AI Models: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/27/23658385/levis-ai-generated-clothing-model-diversity-denim Altman UBI Fridman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yfQrtKjtH4 Wired AI Art: https://www.wired.com/story/art-artificial-intelligence-history/ https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 22 min

    Two AI Models Set to “stir government urgency”, But Will This Challenge Undo Them?

    First look at exclusive reports about OpenAI's new Spud model, and the model Anthropic think will stir governments to urgency, all in the context of the newly-launched ARC-AGI-3. What does the extreme difficulty of that benchmarks, and its quirky scoring metrics, mean for AI in 2026? https://assemblyai.com/aiexplained Check out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, and code INSIDER15 for paid tiers: https://lmcouncil.ai AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:55 - OpenAI Side Quests 01:58 - Claude New Model Coming + Universal Equity? 03:13 - ARC-AGI 3 05:00 - Intentional or Unintentional Gaming? 07:11 - But is it AGI Harbinger? No Harness 09:41 - Not the First 12:32 - Automated Researcher 15:00 - Claw Caveat Spud: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-shifts-responsibilities-preps-spud-ai-model?utm_campaign=Editorial&utm_content=Article&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=bluesky%2Cfacebook%2Clinkedin%2Cthreads%2Ctwitter&rc=sy0ihq FT: OpenAI Special Model: https://www.ft.com/content/de9bf0af-b241-424f-8229-5870b1c0d93d?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Jensen Huang: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/03/23/nvidias-jensen-huang-says-he-thinks-weve-achieved-agi/ Axios Article: https://archive.fo/20260326100140/https://www.axios.com/2026/03/26/anthropic-pentagon-ai-deal#selection-827.0-829.257 https://arcprize.org/arc-agi/3 ARC AGI 3 Paper: https://arcprize.org/media/ARC_AGI_3_Technical_Report.pdf NetHack Leaderboard: https://balrogai.com/ Paper: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/the-nethack-learning-environment/ https://x.com/_rockt/status/2036864121585438995 Claw Shells: https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/2036494601750716711 OpenAI Automated Researcher: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/20/1134438/openai-is-throwing-everything-into-building-a-fully-automated-researcher/ Patreon Post: https://www.patreon.com/c/aiexplained/posts Eng Jobs: https://x.com/lennysan/status/2036535460726767793 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 18 min

    'Pause Giant AI Experiments' - Letter Breakdown w/ Research Papers, Altman, Sutskever and more

    This video will not only cover the letter and the signatories, it will showcase the research behind it, and what the top people at OpenAI think in response. Using over 20 different research papers, articles and interviews I go through the most interesting parts of the discussion on AI safety and the prospects ahead. Featuring Ilya Sutskever's thoughts on alignment, Sam Altman's blog musings, Max Tegmark's proposals, Bostrum and his Superintelligence quote, a top Google Bard worker on whether it is possible, Emad Mostaque and his thoughts, as well as DeepMind and Demis Hassabis. The six month moratorium was called for in an open letter, signed by, among others Emad Mostaque, Elon Musk, Max Tegmark and Yuval Noah Harari. Open Letter: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/ Altman Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Guz73e6fw Altman Blog: https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1 Sutskever Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf1o0TQzry8 Hassabis Interview: https://time.com/6246119/demis-hassabis-deepmind-interview/ Emad Mostaque: https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1640989142598205446 X-risk Analysis: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.05862.pdf Richard Ngo: https://twitter.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1640568775018975232 The Alignment Problem: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.00626.pdf Current and Near Term AI: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.10604.pdf Bostrum Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnT1xgZgkpk Tegmark Interview w/ Lex Fridman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL4j4KPwNGM Anthropic AI Safety: https://www.anthropic.com/index/core-views-on-ai-safety#:~:text=Anthropic%E2%80%99s%20role%20will%20be%20to%20provide%20as%20much,effort%20towards%20preventing%20the%20development%20of%20dangerous%20AIs. NBC News Interview: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tech-watchdog-raised-alarms-social-media-warning-ai-rcna76167 AI Impacts Survey: https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/HLMIvalue2016final4.png Dustin Tran: https://twitter.com/dustinvtran Nadella: https://www.fastcompany.com/90696770/microsoft-satya-nadella-book-recommendations https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wednesday · 25 min

    Claude 4: Full 120 Page Breakdown … Is it the Best New Model?

    Not only did I get early access and ran my own tests, as per the title I read both the 120 page Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet System Card, and 25 page report on ASL-3 being triggered, plus the 2 hour launch video, and surrounding coverage. Ft. coding tests, Simple, twitter controversies, deep alignment coverage, spiritual bliss and much more! https://80000hours.org/aiexplained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:12 - 3 Quick Controversies 02:42 - Benchmark Results 04:20 - 120 page Card 20 Highlights 10:07 - Coding Test 11:27 - Model Welfare and Spiritual Bliss 13:29 - ASL-3 Claude Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686f4f3b2ff47.pdf?s=09 ASL 3:https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/807c59454757214bfd37592d6e048079cd7a7728.pdf Tweets: https://x.com/fish_kyle3/status/1925597284546629753 https://x.com/EMostaque/status/1925624164527874452?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet Cursor Says State of the Art for Coding: https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/1925594428095561941 Benchmarks: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Tuesday · 28 min

    RT-X and the Dawn of Large Multimodal Models: Google Breakthrough and 160-page Report Highlights

    A huge new insider report on GPT Vision is released by Microsoft and just in the last few hours the RT-X series is dropped by Google in Robotics. I will not only break down the 160+ page report on what GPT-4V can do and what it can't, including new use cases, prompting techniques and failure modes, I'll also go through the full RT-2-X and RT-1-X demo, which I am calling the GPT2 moment for robotics. Plus its huge new opensource Open X-Embodiment dataset. https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained RT-X Series: Paper: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/scaling-up-learning-across-many-different-robot-types/Open_X_Embodiment__Robotic_Learning_Datasets_and_RT_X_Models.pdf Blog: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/scaling-up-learning-across-many-different-robot-types? Github: https://robotics-transformer-x.github.io/ utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=RT-X The Dawn of LLMS: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17421 GPT 4 vs Pali 17B: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4 GPT V Inception: https://twitter.com/markchen90/status/1708867434491380057/photo/1 PaLI-X: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.18565.pdf PromptBreeder: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.16797.pdf Wozniak Definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence Gobi from The Information: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-hustles-to-beat-google-to-launch-multimodal-llm?rc=sy0ihq https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Tuesday · 35 min

    Claude Mythos: Highlights from 244-page Release

    The model, the mythos, the legend. We have a new best AI model, but not all of us. How good is it, what does it’s new offensive capabilities mean? Why does it’s 244 page report card remind me of Her, and why did the creator of Claude Code call it ‘terrifying’. 30+ highlights sourced by reading the paper in full, old-school, no AI summary. https://80000hours.org/aiexplained Check out my fast-growing (!) app, free to use, and code INSIDER15 for paid tiers: https://lmcouncil.ai AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:56 - Internal Release + Availability 02:37 - General Capabilities 05:12 - Self-improvement? 06:15 - ‘Terrifying’ Landscape 11:07 - Safety Decision 13:22 - Coding 14:49 - Alignment, Awareness 19:52 - GUI for Agents/Claws + Hallucinations 21:34 - …Emotions? 25:29 - Her connection 244-page System Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/8b8380204f74670be75e81c820ca8dda846ab289.pdf Project Glasswing: https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing Zero-Day Details: https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/ Mythos ‘terrifying’: https://x.com/bcherny/status/2041605852382351666 New Yorker Altman/Amodei: https://archive.fo/20260406100412/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted Alignment Risk Update: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/79c2d46d997783b9d2fb3241de43218158e5f25c.pdf In a Park: https://x.com/sleepinyourhat/status/2041584808514744742 “Uhm” - https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2041749947385815109 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Tuesday · 22 min

    State of AI 2023: Highlights of 163 Page Report + Eureka Self-Improvement, MEG, Suno AI and GPT F

    This video will not only cover the highlights of a new 163 page report on the state of AI in 2023, it will dive into major breakthroughs in just the last week, from Eureka, which documents self-improvement via GPT 4 feedback, to MEG for real-time brain scans, Suno AI for all your AI meme needs, and even mathematical theorem proving. Let me know what you think! https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained State of AI Report 2023: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/156WpBF_rGvf4Ecg19oM1fyR51g4FAmHV3Zs0WLukrLQ/edit#slide=id.g24daeb7f4f0_0_3418 MEG Brain to Image: https://ai.meta.com/blog/brain-ai-image-decoding-meg-magnetoencephalography/ Brain Decoding Paper: https://ai.meta.com/static-resource/image-decoding Orca: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.02707.pdf Use at MSFT: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-microsoft-is-trying-to-lessen-its-addiction-to-openai-as-ai-costs-soar?rc=sy0ihq Eureka Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1715401002957013076 Eureka Paper: https://eureka-research.github.io/ AI Drone Racing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBiataDpGIo eHang Drone Taxis: https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1713929937424433516 Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06419-4 Suno: https://discord.com/invite/suno-ai AlphaTensor: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/discovering-novel-algorithms-with-alphatensor GPT f: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.03393.pdf AI Math Theorem Proving: https://ai.meta.com/blog/ai-math-theorem-proving/ Imbue AI: https://imbue.com/company/introducing-imbue/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNcBsBREvew&t=41s AI Chip Ban: https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/18/america_china_sanctions/ Google Indemnification: https://www.legaldive.com/news/google-indemnify-generativeai-users-against-infringement-copyright-IP-genAI/696593/ Autonomous Drone: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2397389-ukrainian-ai-attack-drones-may-be-killing-without-human-oversight/ Killer Robot: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/10/17/ukraines-ai-drones-seek-and-attack-russian-forces-without-human-oversight/ Rand Bioweapon: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/16/ai-chatbots-could-help-plan-bioweapon-attacks-report-finds The Verge Loki: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/9/23909529/disney-marvel-loki-generative-ai-poster-backlash-season-2 AI Rickrolling: https://twitter.com/DiffusionPics/status/1715441914848383432 https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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