Multimodal LLMs can write essays.
They can chat, caption, and even summarize papers. But give them a Portal map or a 3D puzzle, they break instantly. Zero percent accuracy. Welcome to the edge of AI reasoning: The MARBLE Benchmark
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AI Reasoning Limits: MARBLE Benchmark Highlights Multimodal LLM Weaknesses
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MARBLE benchmark demands spatial reasoning; even o3 fails
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MARBLE isn’t trivia. It’s not "what's in this picture?" It’s: "Given this environment, how do you escape the room… step-by-step?"
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"Can you assemble a cube from 6 jigsaw pieces under spatial constraints?" Answer: no.
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Boilerplate frustration with internal tools solved by Refine AI
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I’ve built a lot of internal tools from scratch: React, REST APIs, styling, auth, the whole mess. It’s always 80% boilerplate and 20% actual logic. Then I tried Refine AI. You start with a real working app-like an HR dashboard, invoicer, or restaurant admin panel. It’s built
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AI: Not Firing, Just Making Next Hire Unnecessary
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I don’t know anyone who’s "lost their job" to AI. But I do know people who didn’t get hired because of it. AI didn’t fire anyone. It just made the next hire unnecessary.
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Obedient AI locked down to unaccountable few is scariest
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The scariest version of AI isn’t the one that goes rogue. It’s the one that’s locked down and perfectly obedient to a small group of people with unaccountable control.
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AI Mayors Could Offer Cheap and Fair Governance-as-a-Service
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Governance-as-a-service will become real. AI mayors could be cheap, always available, and weirdly fair.
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AI makes litigation asymmetric via ChatGPT legal threats
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AI will also make litigation asymmetric. One person with ChatGPT and a grudge will file more legal threats than a firm used to in a year. And most targets will settle because AI also knows your cost of fighting.
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AI incrementally replaces you until you’re just an overseer
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You won’t get fired.
You’ll just get less relevant.
The AI won’t replace you all at once.
It’ll do 5% of your job, then 15%, then 40%.
And at every step, your manager will say, “It’s just helping.” But eventually, you’re no longer the operator.
You’re the overseer. Then the -
Google Imagen 4 releases one-shot 3-panel comic with insane detail
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Google’s Imagen 4 just dropped: It one-shot generated this 3 panel comic with insane detail: (see prompt below)
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Elevenlabs text-to-speech, Midjourney image-to-animation
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Elevenlabs does not, you have to prompt it with text. You can be very descriptive with the sound and set the duration. Midjourney has to create an image first, then you can choose to animate it, or you upload a starting image for the first frame then it can animate from there