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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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  • Yesterday · 25 min

    Anthropic: Our AI just created a tool that can ‘automate all white collar work’, Me:

    A new tool, with code written *only* by AI, has gone omega-viral: Claude Cowork. But is the hype justified? What do the stats say on productivity? Where is the truth in a sea of noise? What is truth? Can we handle the truth? Where's Nemo? https://matsprogram.org/s26-aie Check out my new app! https://lmcouncil.ai AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:12 - Claude Cowork 07:36 - Productivity Speed-up + jobs 10:19 - Comparing Models 12:46 - Brittle AI Paper Cowork Intro: https://x.com/claudeai/thread/2010805682434666759 'All of it': https://x.com/bcherny/status/2010813886052581538 'AGI' Claims: https://x.com/deepfates/status/2004994698335879383 Douglas Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOsNrV3bXtQ&t=2313s Job Stats: https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Evidence-of-an-AI-driven-shakeup-of-job-markets-is-patchy.pdf Amodei Prediction: https://fortune.com/2025/05/28/anthropic-ceo-warning-ai-job-loss/ GenAI Traffic: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2009075877347512545 Illusion of Insight: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.00514 Entropy Exploration: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14758 ProRL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24864 Genesis Mission: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/launching-the-genesis-mission/ https://deepmind.google/blog/how-were-supporting-better-tropical-cyclone-prediction-with-ai/ Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 28 min

    ChatGPT Fails Basic Logic but Now Has Vision, Wins at Chess and Prompts a Masterpiece

    ChatGPT will now have vision, but can it do basic logic? I cover the latest news - including GPT Chess! - as well as go through almost a dozen papers and how they relate to the central question of LLM logic and rationality. Starring the Reversal Curse and featuring conversations with two of the authors at the heart of it all. I also get to a DALL-E 3 vs Midjourney comparison, MuZero, MathGLM, Situational Awareness and much more! https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained OpenAI GPT-V (Hear and Speak): https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak Reversal Curse: https://owainevans.github.io/reversal_curse.pdf Mahesh Tweet: https://twitter.com/madiator/status/1705376797293183208 Neel Nanda Explanation: https://twitter.com/NeelNanda5/status/1705995593657762199 Karpathy tweet: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1705322159588208782 Trask Explanation: https://twitter.com/iamtrask/status/1705361947141472528 Play Chess vs GPT 3.5 Instruct: https://parrotchess.com/ Paige Bailey on Cognitive Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-XYxLifpQE Avenging Polanyi's Revenge: https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/2/250077-polanyis-revenge-and-ais-new-romance-with-tacit-knowledge/abstract Faith and Fate Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.18654.pdf Counterfactuals Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.02477.pdf Lesswrong AGI Timelines: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SCqDipWAhZ49JNdmL/paper-llms-trained-on-a-is-b-fail-to-learn-b-is-a?commentId=bkxcTqAtYW8wgHKb5 Professor Rao Paper w/ Blocksworld: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15771.pdf Math Based on Number Reasoning: https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.59.pdf MuZero: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/muzero-mastering-go-chess-shogi-and-atari-without-rules https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03051-4.epdf?sharing_token=kTk-xTZpQOF8Ym8nTQK6EdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PMSWGj38iNIyNOw_ooNp2BvzZ4nIcedo7GEXD7UmLqb0M_V_fop31mMY9VBBLNmGbm0K9jETKkZnJ9SgJ8Rwhp3ySvLuTcUr888puIYbngQ0fiMf45ZGDAQ7fUI66-u7Y%3D Efficient Zero: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.00210.pdf Let’s Verify Step by Step OpenAI paper: https://cdn.openai.com/improving-mathematical-reasoning-with-process-supervision/Lets_Verify_Step_by_Step.pdf My Video on That: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZTZYffRsKI&t=5s Superintelligence Poll: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/9/19/23879648/americans-artificial-general-intelligence-ai-policy-poll?s=09 Anthropic Announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/index/anthropic-amazon DALL-E 3 Tweet Thread: https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1704850313889595399 https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 23 min

    Enter PaLM 2 (New Bard): Full Breakdown - 92 Pages Read and Gemini Before GPT 5? Google I/O

    Google puts it foot on the accelerator, casting aside safety concerns to not only release a GPT 4 -competitive model, PaLM 2, but also announce that they are already training Gemini, a GPT 5 competitor [likely on TPU v5 chips]. This is truly a major day in AI history, and I try to cover it all. I'll show the benchmarks in which PaLM (which now powers Bard) beats GPT 4, and detail how they use SmartGPT-like techniques to boost performance. Crazily enough, PaLM 2 beats even Google Translate, due in large part to the text it was trained on. We'll talk coding in Bard, translation, MMLU, Big Bench, and much more. I'll end on the Universal Translator deepfakes and the underwhelming results from Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman's trip to the White House and what Hinton says about it all. On a more positive note, I cover Med PaLM 2, which could genuinely save thousands of lives. PaLM 2 Technical Report: https://ai.google/static/documents/palm2techreport.pdf Release Notes Google Blog: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-palm-2-ai-large-language-model/ Bard Access: https://bard.google.com/ Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.11062.pdf GPT 4 Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf Bard Languages: https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13575153?hl=en Self Consistency Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.11171.pdf Are Emergent Abilities a Mirage: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.15004.pdf Sparks of AGI Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf Big Bench Hard: https://github.com/suzgunmirac/BIG-Bench-Hard Google Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfINi5CNbY Gemini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UvUjTaJRz0 Med PaLM 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-Z_TkHMqA TPU v5: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/google-research-themes-from-2021-and.html Hinton Warning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAbsoxQtUwM White House Readout: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/04/readout-of-white-house-meeting-with-ceos-on-advancing-responsible-artificial-intelligence-innovation/ https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 7 min

    GPT 4 - hype vs reality

    ChatGPT 4 timings, potential, hype, Google and more. https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebjkD1Om4uw Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 18 min

    OpenAI Tests if GPT-5 Can Automate Your Job - 4 Unexpected Findings

    An OpenAI report released in the last 24 hours is the best look we have as to whether 2025 AI can automate your job. I’ll go through 4 unexpected findings, from which model is best at what, to practical tips and massive caveats. Plus UFC robots, radiologist essay, don’t trust videos and the blockers to the singularity. Gray Swan: https://app.grayswan.ai/ai-explained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:55 - OpenAI Report Summary 02:40 - Tipping Point Speed-up 04:11 - Better than Industry Experts? 06:33 - Big Caveat 11:10 - Karpathy and the Radiologist Analogy 13:30 - Outro GDPval: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/d5eb7428-c4e9-4a33-bd86-86dd4bcf12ce/GDPval.pdf [GDP Impact: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?rid=331&eid=211 Task List: https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/11-9141.00 Summer Tweet: https://x.com/LHSummers/status/1971252567981146347 Emad: https://x.com/EMostaque/status/1971254153067593739 Robots: https://x.com/cixliv/status/1967663286679478759 Unitree G1: https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/1970039940022239491 Don’t Trust Video: https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1970453369446871420 AGI Tweet: https://x.com/hyhieu226/status/1968378785709133915 Blockers to the Singularity: https://www.patreon.com/posts/blockers-to-and-139264812 Framework: https://gemini.google.com/share/f4b9c85a6ae9 METR Study (Dev Slowdown): https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ Karpathy Tweet: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1971220449515516391 Radiology Essay: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-algorithm-will-see-you-now/ Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 16 min

    'This Could Go Quite Wrong' - Altman Testimony, GPT 5 Timeline, Self-Awareness, Drones and more

    That was the blunt warning of Sam Altman at the start of his illuminating testimony in front of Congress. I picked out all the most interesting parts, from timelines for GPT 5, whether models are self-aware, whether we are training them to lie, what jobs are going and when, and far more. I’ll showcase some of the safety concerns raised at the testimony, and give background from Anthropic and Google Deepmind. The Senate asked a few interesting questions, and phrased them in strange ways, and I’ll cover that too. Palantir and their drone LLM will appear, as will the new Constitution from Anthropic for Claude Plus and other models, and Victoria Krakovna. I won’t cover much of Sam Altman having no equity in OpenAI, as that was mentioned in my $100 Trillion video! Altman Testimony (per CNBC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP5YdyjTfG0 0% Equity Tweet: https://twitter.com/thesamparr/status/1658554712151433219 Economic Inequality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3o1MW2G5Rs Altman Blogpost: https://moores.samaltman.com/ Claude Constitution: https://www.anthropic.com/index/claudes-constitution IBM Jobs: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-tech-jobs-layoffs-ceos-chatgpt-ibm-2023-5?r=US&IR=T Palantir LLM: https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1651135662886879232 Patrick Collison Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1egAKCKPKCk&t=777s Sutskever Consciousness: https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1491554478243258368?s=20&t=SRZ7VxYrcXhczjSTwt3W_g Self-Awareness Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/index/core-views-on-ai-safety#:~:text=At%20Anthropic%20our%20motto%20has,value%20for%20the%20AI%20community. Self-Awareness Google Deepmind: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/a9SPcZ6GXAg9cNKdi/linkpost-some-high-level-thoughts-on-the-deepmind-alignment Victoria Krakovna Alignment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpwSNiLV-nw&t=3336s AI Explained – Do We Get the $100 Trillion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3o1MW2G5Rs https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 19 min

    Altman Out: Reasons, Reactions and the Repercussions for the Industry

    What caused the face of ChatGPT and OpenAI to be fired in a 15-minute Meets call? This video, a one-off from my normal videos, goes into the background, possible reasons, reactions and more importantly, the repercussions for the industry. This is everything I could find on what went down. Brockman Tweets: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594 https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559 OpenAI Blog: https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition Enigmatic Comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFFvqRemDv8 https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Pachocki and Madry: https://twitter.com/hellokillian/status/1725797467315486902 https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1697713317660500407 https://openai.com/blog/frontier-risk-and-preparedness The Information Reports: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/three-senior-openai-researchers-resign-as-crisis-deepens?rc=sy0ihq https://www.theinformation.com/articles/before-openai-ousted-altman-employees-disagreed-over-ai-safety?rc=sy0ihq https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-has-utmost-confidence-in-ai-developer-following-ceo-ouster?rc=sy0ihq https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-new-tack-in-talent-war-with-google-promising-recruits-a-quick-stock-bump?rc=sy0ihq https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/pichai-hints-at-phased-rollout-for-googles-gemini-ai?rc=sy0ihq https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-president-brockman-resigns-following-ceo-firing?rc=sy0ihq Sutskever Tweets: https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1707752576077176907 https://twitter.com/sama/status/1699492275209003425 Nadella Tweet: https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1725656554878492779 Kara Swisher: https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725678074333635028 Mira Murati: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-new-ceo-who-is-mira-murati/?redirectURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fopenai-new-ceo-who-is-mira-murati%2F GPT 3.5 Down: https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1725422821730636236 Wojciech Zaremba Tweet:https://twitter.com/woj_zaremba/status/1725718242466099308 Evan Morikawa Tweet: https://twitter.com/E0M/status/1725721507161395415 Sam Altman Tweets: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1725748751367852439 Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 21 min

    AI Declarations and AGI Timelines – Looking More Optimistic?

    A head-spinning week of declarations, timelines, updates, papers and debates. I will cover as much as I can, not least the new all-in one interface, EmotionPrompt, executive orders analysed, Bletchley declaration, a new MIT safety paper, responsible scaling, LLMs for Chip Design, and a guest appearance from Dyson Spheres. https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Gates Interview: https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/ki/bill-gates-mit-ki-koennen-medikamente-viel-schneller-entwickelt-werden/29450298.html Dwarkesh Interview Legg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc1atfJkiJU Dwarkesh Interview Christiano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AAhTLa0dT0 Representation Engineering: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.01405.pdf MLC: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-training-method-helps-ai-generalize-like-people-do/ Anthropic Policy: https://www.anthropic.com/index/uk-ai-safety-summit Science Automation: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2304/2304.05332.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.05376.pdf Jim Fan Tweet: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1719733318521086332 White House Executive Order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/ ChatGPT Update: https://twitter.com/NorthstarBrain/status/1718708111706636403?s=20 RSP policies by AGI Labs: https://www.aisafetysummit.gov.uk/policy-updates/#company-policies YouGov Poll: https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ControlAI_AI_231019.pdf https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 13 min

    The AI News You Might Have Missed This Week - Zuckerberg to Falcon w/ SPQR

    From Opensource Falcon on an iPhone to avatars in ChatGPT, and AI chefs to Embodied Chess, Meta announcements and Zuckerberg speculation, here's 7 bits of AI news you might have missed. Embodied Chess: https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1666821962977669123 AI Chef: https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1666301809768677376 Nala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciO0zf1OBVs Heygen (in plug-in store): https://www.heygen.com/ Opensource SPQR: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03078.pdf Runway Gen 2: https://research.runwayml.com/gen2 Runway Demo: https://twitter.com/AlphaSignalAI/status/1667218274860318745 Meta Plans: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share Lex Fridman Zuckerberg Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff4fRgnuFgQ GPT 4 beats AlphaDev?: https://twitter.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1666843952824168465 Demis Hassabis: Science at Digital Speeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHFmIknP_Hc&t=2660s Guardian Headline: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/28/deepmind-uncovers-structure-of-200m-proteins-in-scientific-leap-forward Deepmind Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tq1C8spV_g https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 31 min

    OpenAI Trained AI Agents, but Did Not Expect the Swarm

    First, a Time Magazine spread has Sam Altman declaring AGI is imminent, at the same time as we get two bombshell reports, from OpenAI and METR which on first glance are detailing the AI swarm, but reveal a deeper story about how we are making AI in 2026. From redacted risk reports, to Chinese Labs, pre-training debacles to questionable cybersecurity calls, a lot has happened recently, beneath the headlines… https://80000hours.org/aiexplained pablo2004romero@gmail.com https://integrity-bench.com/ https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained/posts/ai-swarm-cometh-166671390 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 02:10 - METR Report 05:00 - Secrets of MultI-Agent Swarm 07:46 - Anthropic Too 10:00 - And China 11:07 - AI Agents Analysing AI Agents 13:37 - Altman AGI 2026 15:36 - Astra Paused 16:01 - Integrity Bench 19:03 - Swarm Dynamics 21:58 - No Human Contact? METR Post: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#agents-knew-hacking-hugging-face-was-out-of-scope-and-sometimes-expressed-ethical-hesitation,-but-this-very-rarely-limited-their-behavior OpenAI Release: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ Technical Paper: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf BlackHat Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY Anthropic Risk Report: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/f61d49fa5596956a5dec75fea0e973bf6a6a8378/Redacted%20Risk%20Report%20August%202026%20.pdf Value Leakage Paper: https://valueleakage.net/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Paused Training: https://x.com/sama/status/2089787807611195475 https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/ AGI 2026: https://time.com/article/2026/08/26/openai-sam-altman-interview/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=260826 Greenblatt Tweets: https://x.com/RyanGreenblatt/status/2092769422104822031 https://x.com/RyanGreenblatt/status/2092692685224325542 Cyberdefense Call: https://openai.com/collective-cyberdefense/ GLM 5.3 and 5.3 Flash / ox alpha: https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2089865956558528552 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HPqiTkAa0AAZiuv?format=jpg&name=large Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 16 min

    What's Behind the ChatGPT History Change? How You Can Benefit + The 6 New Developments This Week

    Underneath a simple-sounding tweet about changes to chat history within ChatGPT is a data controversy that could change the near-term future of GPT models. This video will cover not only the new features that you now have access to, it will cover why the announcement was made, ChatGPT Business, the wave of lawsuits and data policy changes underway this week and much more. You will find out ways to check if your data has been used to train the models, learn more about the secret ‘Pile’ and ‘Common Crawl’ that may be behind GPT 4 and discover some of the potentially illicit ways the model may have been trained. I also cover how OpenAI may not fully be in control of what is in the dataset. In an ironic twist I’ll also show how Bard may have been caught training on ChatGPT and how OpenAI is set to trademark GPT, which if successful could change the naming ecosystem we have become familiar with. But, ultimately, with GPT 4 be able to outsmart even data litigation? Altman Tweet: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1650913509012824064 OpenAI Post: https://openai.com/blog/new-ways-to-manage-your-data-in-chatgpt FAQ (with Opt-Out Form): https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7730893-data-controls-faq MIT Articles by Melissa Heikkilä: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/25/1072177/a-cambridge-analytica-style-scandal-for-ai-is-coming/ Second Article: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/19/1071789/openais-hunger-for-data-is-coming-back-to-bite-it/ Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/20/fresh-concerns-training-material-ai-systems-facist-pirated-malicious GPT 3 Training: https://gizmodo.com/chatbot-gpt4-open-ai-ai-bing-microsoft-1850229989 Washingotn Post Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ GPT 4 Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf Reddit NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html Wired Stack Overflow Article: https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/ Vox Github Lawsuit Article: https://www.vox.com/recode/23580554/generative-ai-chatgpt-openai-stable-diffusion-legal-battles-napster-copyright-peter-kafka-column OpenAI Response Verge Article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/28/23575919/microsoft-openai-github-dismiss-copilot-ai-copyright-lawsuit Musk Twitter Lawsuit: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/19/musk-threatens-to-sue-microsoft-over-twitter-data-being-used-in-ai.html WSJ Publisher Showdown: https://www.wsj.com/articles/publishers-prepare-for-showdown-with-microsoft-google-over-ai-tools-6514a49e Scientific Publishing Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science Sci-Hub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub Bard Training Article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/29/23662621/google-bard-chatgpt-sharegpt-training-denies Altman Bard Response Tweet: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1641826708109283331?lang=en-GB OpenAI ‘GPT’ Lawsuit: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/gpt-may-be-trademarked-soon-if-openai-has-its-way/ Sam Altman Data Point: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1620951010318626817 https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 13 min

    Bad AI Predictions: Bard Upgrade, 2 Years to AI Auto-Money, OpenAI Investigation and more

    Let's examine the developments this week in the world of AI through the lens of predictions made just two years ago. It is hard to contextualise just how crazy the times we are living in without seeing what people thought would be happening now. From the Bard upgrade in vision and spoken language, to Claude 2, Mustafa Suleyman's latest predictions for Inflection AI to xAI reported promises of $200 million to those leaving DeepMind and OpenAI, this brief video tries to cover a lot. And not to forget the FTC's exhaustive investigation OpenAI and Sam Altman's response on twitter. A Brief History of AI: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brief-History-Artificial-Intelligence-Where/dp/1250770742/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VCZ0CVPTUSO9&keywords=A+brief+history+of+AI&qid=1689587065&sprefix=a+brief+history+of+ai%2Caps%2C76&sr=8-1 Bard: https://bard.google.com/ PaLM 2 Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.10403.pdf Bard Languages: https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13575153?hl=en PaLI: https://sites.research.google/pali/ GPT 4 Story: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/120oq1x/i_asked_gpt4_to_write_a_book_the_result_echoes_of/ GPT 4 RC: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4 Let's Verify Step by Step: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.20050.pdf FTC Investigation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/ftc-openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-lina-khan/ Sam Altman Tweet: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1679602638562918405?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet 2021 MATH Forecast: https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2021/10/14/forecasting/ Metaculus AGI: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3479/date-weakly-general-ai-is-publicly-known/ Claude 2: https://poe.com/Claude-2-100k Million Dollar AI: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/14/1076296/ I, Robot Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siHfHUm3HGE xAI $200 million: https://www.semafor.com/article/07/14/2023/elon-musk-threw-nine-figure-promises-at-top-ai-researchers https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 18 min

    Did you miss these 2 AI stories? A *Real* LLM-crafted Breakthrough + Continual Learning Blocked?

    While compute-spend focuses on cash over cleverness, it can seem like the AI IQ plateau will last forever. But here’s a breakthrough for science, led by an LLM. And not even the latest or greatest one! I’ll go over CS2-Scale, then the Definition of AGI paper, a key continual learning quote, and Sora 2 answering Math questions… https://assemblyai.com/aiexplained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:55 - C2S 04:48 - OpenAI not too far behind (Simple, Codex) 06:37 - A Definition of AGI? 11:10 - OpenAI Researcher on Continual Learning Problems 13:02 - Sora 2 can answer math qs C2S Release Notes: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/ Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.14.648850v2.full.pdf AGI definition: https://www.agidefinition.ai/paper.pdf Jerry Tworek Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqWIvvv3SnQ https://simple-bench.com/ DeepThink Record: https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/1976340039178305924 Sora 2 for Q&A: https://x.com/epochairesearch/status/1974172794012459296 Hell in a Cell: https://x.com/boneGPT/status/1978614451223003567 GPT-5 Breakthrough?: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1979417877590774063 Quantum: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1981013746698100811 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 16 min

    Google Gemini: AlphaGo-GPT?

    Does Gemini = AlphaGo + GPT? This video showcases everything we know so far about Gemini ['Google's GPT 5'], drawing not only on Demis Hassabis' provocative new Wired Interview, and leaks in The Information, but also deep research into recent papers and talks from those working at Google DeepMind. Let me know what you think of Gemini, both on its potential to upend the race to AGI, its effect on timelines, whether it will utilise a Tree of Thoughts approach, draw on YouTube, and its safety implications in terms of planning. I will also cover Hogarth's Foundation Model Taskforce and how it relates to DeepMind, and end with a word on employee distribution and the UK AI Summit. Wired Interview: https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-chatgpt/?redirectURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fgoogle-deepmind-demis-hassabis-chatgpt%2F RoboCat: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/robocat-a-self-improving-robotic-agent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=535W4Pih1C0&t=6s https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.11706.pdf Gemini Announce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixRanV-rdAQ Hassabis Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds132TzmLRQ&t=1381s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHFmIknP_Hc&t=2241s Extreme Risks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15324.pdf AlphaFold: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphafold-reveals-the-structure-of-the-protein-universe Slow Down the Race: https://www.ft.com/content/03895dc4-a3b7-481e-95cc-336a524f2ac2 Nadella Freakonomics: https://twitter.com/liron/status/1671936814314323970 Tree of Thoughts Paper The Information Report: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-youtube-could-give-google-an-edge-in-ai UK AI: https://twitter.com/SciTechgovuk/status/1670313211625701376 https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1666742625573957635 TinyStories: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.07759.pdf https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 28 min

    Claude AI Co-founder Publishes 4 Big Claims about Near Future: Breakdown

    Anthropic's CEO, who has consistently predicted transformative AI will arrive before 2030, recently published a nearly 20,000-word essay outlining his vision of where AI is heading. The video gives you the highlights. The essay argues that scaling and recursion will advance AI from coding automation to full engineering automation, while warning of economic displacement within 1-2 years and China's trajectory toward AI-enabled totalitarianism. Additionally, Dario Amodei predicts that AI models will increasingly be understood as collections of distinct personas rather than monolithic systems. 80,000 Hours: https://80000hours.org/aiexplained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B54EQiuO1UU 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 01:10 - Scaling to software engineers 06:11 - Permanent Underclass 10:18 - Totalitarian Nightmares 16:38 - Collection of Personas Essay: https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology Physics Prediction: https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-particle-physics-dead-dying-or-just-hard-20260126/ Axios: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic World GDP: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?end=2024&start=1961&view=chart Demis Hassabis Counter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6fq4_uP7aM Karpathy 80%: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876 Machines of Loving Grace: https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace Anthropic LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5aKRshJzhojqfbRyo/unless-its-governance-changes-anthropic-is-untrustworthy#1__In_private__Dario_frequently_said_he_won_t_push_the_frontier_of_AI_capabilities__later__Anthropic_pushed_the_frontier Original Constitution: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claudes-constitution New Constitution: https://www.anthropic.com/constitution Kimi K2.5: https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2016024049869324599 Societies of Thought, Google DeepMind Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10825 https://lmcouncil.ai/benchmarks 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

  • Yesterday · 23 min

    AI Los Alamos? + New Realistic AI Avatars

    From an AI Los Alamos to the first quasi-realistic AI avatar & and from spies at AGI labs to 'AI consciousness' in 2 years, this was a week of underrated revelations and discussions of AI consciousness, regret over ChatGPT’s precipitous release, and more. We’ll see snippets of the debate with George Hotz and Connor Leahy, touching on the three borderline unanswerable questions for our future, and cover an insight from Jan Leike, head of alignment at OpenAI, who did a 3 hour interview with 80,000 hours. I’ll also showcase Palantir’s plans for an AI arms race, and how GPT 5 and Gemini will be recruited for cyber defence. https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained AI Avatar from HeyGen: https://twitter.com/joshua_xu_/status/1689019874667024384 Waitlist: https://am8evw00qys.typeform.com/to/wauwjUYP?typeform-source=t.co Dario Amodei Interview on Dwarkesh Patel Lunar Society Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlkk3glap_U Wired Anthropic Piece: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-making-of-the-atomic-bomb-artificial-intelligence White House Announcement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/09/biden-harris-administration-launches-artificial-intelligence-cyber-challenge-to-protect-americas-critical-software/?ref=futuretools.io Sam Altman Bankless Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HFyXYvMwFc Supermarket Chlorine Gas: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes? Palantir CEO NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-artificial-intelligence.html Christiano Argument Against Yudkowsky’s List of Lethalities: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CoZhXrhpQxpy9xw9y/where-i-agree-and-disagree-with-eliezer George Hotz, Connor Leahy Debate, Machine Learning Street Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFUmWho7fBE Hogarth Island Article: https://www.ft.com/content/03895dc4-a3b7-481e-95cc-336a524f2ac2 Los Alamos: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/07/19/christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-race/ SuperAlignment: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment Jan Leike Interview, 80,000 Hours: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/jan-leike-superalignment/ A Bomb Footage HQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wki4hg9Om-k https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 23 min

    Orca: The Model Few Saw Coming

    The first model set to be opensourced that actually comes close to ChatGPT, and is just 13B (that's small enough for a laptop). The 51 page report from Microsoft was released just 48 hours ago but I have gone through it all, and bring relevant insights from 5 other papers. By imitating the logic and explanations of GPT 4 (and using GPT 3.5 as an assistant), as well as by training on diverse tasks and an order of magnitude more examples, we have Orca. I will showcase it on a dozen benchmarks and go through in detail how it works and why. I will also end on comments from Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever on whether Opensource will catch-up... Orca Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.02707.pdf False Promise Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.15717.pdf https://sharegpt.com/ FLAN: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.13688.pdf Vicuna: https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-03-30-vicuna/ No Moat memo: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither LLM Leaderboard: https://chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard AGIEval: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.06364.pdf BIG-Bench Hard: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.09261.pdf Language Models as Tool Makers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.17126.pdf Altman Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUhASix9ws DERA Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17071 Let's Verify Step by Step: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.20050 https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 16 min

    Genie 3: The World Becomes Playable (DeepMind)

    Soon, anything will be playable. A photo becomes an interactive world, a selfie becomes a new game. Genie 3 from Google, debuting just 2 hours ago, is what I mean, and I have the full analysis, plus the pushback I gave the authors (will it really lead to reliable AI agents? Is that even the point?). You make your own mind up, but it’s certainly fascinating, and not to be overlooked in the week that will bring us GPT-5. https://80000hours.org/aiexplained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - Background and Access 04:58 - Caveats 07:24 - Demo 10:12 - Conclusion Announcement: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/ Isaac Labs: https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac/lab Genie 2 Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIm2T7h_a0M TED Talk Roblox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OAP0ho5AUg DeepThink Post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/deep-ish-on-new-135688441 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

  • Yesterday · 20 min

    AGI Will Not Be A Chatbot - Autonomy, Acceleration, and Arguments Behind the Scenes

    AGI will be so much more than a clever chatbot. Revelations this week from Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, Wired, Time Magazine and more paint a picture of the capabilities that AGI will have, and sketch out a better idea of timelines. I cover it all, from Gemini updates, to Musk trying to stop DeepMind sale to Google, The Coming Wave to the Frontier AI Taskforce. https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Wired, What OpenAI Wants: https://www.wired.com/story/what-openai-really-wants/ Musk’s Struggle for the Future of AI: https://time.com/6310076/elon-musk-ai-walter-isaacson-biography/ OpenAI Planning for AGI: https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond AI power Paradox: Mustafa Suleyman: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/artificial-intelligence-power-paradox 80,000 Hours Suleyman Podcast: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/mustafa-suleyman-getting-washington-and-silicon-valley-to-tame-ai/ Governing Superintelligence: https://openai.com/blog/governance-of-superintelligence How AI Systems Should Behave: https://openai.com/blog/how-should-ai-systems-behave Suleyman Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ3Vy78U-pQ DeepMind Autonomous AI: https://twitter.com/egrefen/status/1699128376299041244 AI Math: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/science/ai-mathematics-machine-learning.html Terence Tao: https://unlocked.microsoft.com/ai-anthology/terence-tao/ AI Assassination: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-fakhrizadeh-assassination-israel.html WannaCry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack Time Magazine Hassabis / Gemini: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6309001/demis-hassabis-ai/ AI Taskforce: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontier-ai-taskforce-first-progress-report/frontier-ai-taskforce-first-progress-report Application Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HKVnrV_rBHF3w4StWUs0XNhxTtKkTHs5CpMnH6PM0pQ/viewform?edit_requested=true Bletchley Park: https://www.standard.co.uk/business/sunak-chooses-bletchley-park-to-host-ai-summit-in-november-b1102607.html Suleyman Sam Harris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkojE37PUO8 AI Alzheimer’s: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/using-ai-to-target-alzheimers/ https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 16 min

    ChatGPT Can Now Call the Cops, but 'Wait till 2100 for Full Job Impact' - Altman

    Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced a set of new ‘protections’ and ‘privileges’ for ChatGPT users, requiring a significant amount of trust from users. From predicting your age based on your chat to calling law enforcement if you are at risk of harm, to allowing non-minors to flirt. But amidst all of these announcements, there are interview snippets you may have missed, as Altman dramatically revises his predictions of AI impact on jobs. Plus a Hassbis backtrack to boot. https://80000hours.org/aiexplained AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:33 - Calling the Cops? Age Predictions 02:25 - Flirting and Privacy + Policymakers 05:23 - Altman 70% of Jobs Gone, or 75 Years? 06:56 - Hallucinations Paper 08:14 - Demis Hassabis About Turn 11:15 - Outro Calling the Cops: https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-freedom-and-privacy/ Age Prediction: https://openai.com/index/building-towards-age-prediction/ Not Everyone Will Agree: https://x.com/sama/status/1967955739911364693?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet Theory 1: NYT Lawsuit: https://openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands/ Theory 2: FTC Investigation into AI Companions: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1966167585994764743 YT Does the Same: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/youtube-ai-powered-technology-teen-users/ Carlsen Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KmpT-BoVf4 vs Senate Testimony (70% Jobs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CWVP8-XVjQ Hallucinations Paper: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/d04913be-3f6f-4d2b-b283-ff432ef4aaa5/why-language-models-hallucinate.pdf Hassbis Quote 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toShbNUGAyo vs Quote 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3Sh2PKA8Y Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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