1. lol at Kevin Roose smashing together three different bits of marketing collateral for three different models into one sentence
  2. Would love to hear him explaining "refactor a code base" then show me where that happened

Kevin Roose
@kevinroose
There's a fascinating tension between what Al labs are building (PhD-level agents that win math olympiads and refactor code bases) and what most people want out of Al (friendly helpers that are pretty smart and can do stuff and don't get a personality transplant every 6 months).
typedfemale &
@typedfemale • 11h
the /r/chatgpt AMA is mostly people begging for gpt-40 back because of it's personality... really not what i expected! pic.x.com/XPG2iGhzcM
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Having a PhD and winning a Math Olympiad are 2 very different achievements. I tried to do Math Olympiads as a kid and basically anybody advancing to the national level is on a different plane of existence, even compared to the relatively gifted kids competing in first place.

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  1. PhDs on the other hand are less a product of raw unfiltered talent and more a long slow process of proving yourself to be able to produce additions to your field that are of a sufficient quality.

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  2. it's funny because he's combining three very different things - the supposed (bullshit) "PHD level intelligence" of GPT-5, with the supposed models that got gold on the olympiad (once! they haven't released the models!), and then AI-powered IDEs, it's so cool

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