There are a billion people using AI chatbots. It is likely they are being used in hundreds of thousands of unexpected ways that would enlighten, horrify, amuse, or disgust (note that guardrails can be circumvented). Odd stories will bubble up for years, appearing in your feed.
@emollick
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LLM Performance Drops on Non-Standard Medical Questions
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Another example of a persistent problem with LLMs. They do very well on standard medical questions, but when the right answer is replaced with “none of the above” performance drops. More recent models generally have lower drops in performance. https://
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AI Plateau May Accelerate Integration Into Products and Services
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When and if AI development plateaus (and no indication that is happening yet), it may actually accelerate AI integration into our lives, because then it becomes easier to figure out what products & services are needed to complement AI. Right now capabilities are changing too fast
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Claude Opus 4.1 De-Carcinizes The Great Gatsby
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“Claude Opus 4.1, De-Carcinize the Great Gatsby” (That was the only prompt) Pretty clever, actually.
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AI Rollout Strategy Targets Mass Market Over Power Users
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Pretty clear the rollout was not aimed at power users, but at solving a different problem. For better or worse.
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O3 Adoption Low: GPT-5 Reasoning Will Surprise Users
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Good to have numbers. And, and as suspected, almost nobody was using o3 before, even if they paid for it. For most users, experiencing a Reasoner will be a surprise expansion of AI’s abilities & GPT-5 will appear to be a very big leap when auto-routes to the Thinking version.
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X’s Massive User Base: Power Users Miss Broader Usage Patterns
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The size of the user base is staggering. Power users on X likely have no sense of most use.
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AI Asks Computer to Enhance: Blade Runner Meme Twist
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The enhance meme from Bladerunner, except the AI is asking the computer to enhance.
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GPT-5 User Preference Majority Over ChatGPT Analysis
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I suspect this is right. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the vast majority of the 700M users of ChatGPT already greatly prefer GPT-5 & that the opinion on X is not reflective of the typical experience. (Which doesn’t mean that the issues identified here aren’t very real)
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GPT-5 Thinking demonstrates advanced image processing and text recognition
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And another one exactly right from GPT-5 Thinking. I especially like how it did image processing to try to read distant text.