Was told by OpenAI that “Study Mode is still live and accessible via /study and /learn shortcuts” (I don’t think this is generally known, or documented)
@emollick
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Personalized AI tutoring is a prime mission use for OpenAI
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From a pure "do good for the world" mission perspective, having the acting like a solid personalized tutor is one of the better uses of AI. If OpenAI cares about the mission of making the world a better place, tutoring should be an area of investment, not one to silently remove.
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Silent removal of ChatGPT Study Mode criticized for harming learning
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The silent removal of Study Mode from ChatGPT is a big mistake (both Claude and Gemini still have theirs) We have enough evidence that using AI in assistant mode to study can hurt learning because it just gives you answers, making students think they learned when they have not.
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Exchange with OpenAI’s Roon on superintelligent AI and organizational challenges
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Had an interesting exchange with roon of OpenAI last night over whether super intelligent AI would actually be able to navigate organizational challenges.
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East Coast consensus contrasts with West Coast rapid automation vision
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I think that is the East Coast consensus, generally: jaggedness + the complexity of actual organizations + social constraints mean that even true ASI is less abruptly transformative than the West Coast vision of massive rapid automation as soon as AI capabilities get good enough
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Curing cancer easier than replacing Accenture, AI labs predict 2035 job loss
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I think it is a reasonable argument to say "curing cancer will be easier than replacing Accenture," but the general pitch from many at the AI labs has been "we are worried most white collar jobs will be replaced by 2035" which implies some belief that AI becomes self-adopting.
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True Superintelligence: Infer or Bypass Tacit Knowledge?
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A true superintelligence should be able to infer or elicit tacit/contextual knowledge? Or route around it? Otherwise AI installations are still held back by Hayek, Coase, Weber, etc.: human constraints navigated by humans. Mediated adoption, not the "all jobs transformed" pitch
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AI labs’ ASI belief signaled by disbanding consulting, jobs safe
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You will know that the AI labs believe in ASI when they disband their newly formed consulting (sorry “forward deployed engineering”) groups. As long as people are required to figure out how AI is useful & do organizational change & systems integration, jobs seem to be pretty safe
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Cost of smartness: old prompts need revision for new model
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Though the smartness comes with a cost: all of the prompts that were written for the old realtime voice model now need to be revised for a more capable, and better instruction following, model.
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Frontier model writing: good style but weak spots and clichés
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I think frontier model writing is good! It often has a sense of style & tone, variations in sentence structure & length, some great phrasing, etc But it also has some weak spots (fiction!) & clear tics. Mostly there is just far too much of it online which makes it all so cliche