In June, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,023 American adults about artificial intelligence. One question asked whether AI would make people better or worse at forming meaningful relationships. Half the respondents said worse. Five percent said better.
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The 'Reasoning' Update: ...
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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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...