Noted academic @rao2z reaches basically same conclusions about OpenAI and FrontierMath that I did. The o3 result smells fishy.
BIG TECH
-
Altman’s Unfulfilled Promises: Media Accountability Gap
By
–
Very Safe Prediction: Altman will continue to spin fairy tales (generally with plausibly deniability, implication without full commitment) as long as the press keeps reporting them, and as long the press keeps failing to hold him account for broken promises. We will not have x.com/AISafetyMemes/…
-
OpenAI o3 presentation criticized as misleading GPT-5 hype
By
–
In time, people will see December’s OpenAI o3 presentation for what it seems to have been: a desperate, rigged, misleading, scientifically shoddy demonstration that overhyped future products and distracted from their struggles in getting a viable system worthy of the name GPT-5.
-

OpenAI’s hand in crafting industry-wide agreements
By
–
well, it should be uniform at the very least. ideally, “none”, i agree. but OpenAI presumably had a strong hand in crafting the arrangement that was reached.
-
FTC Independence from BigTech Influence Demonstrated
By
–
We saw what it looks like to have an FTC that isn’t bought by BigTech.
-

OpenAI’s Strategic Use of Ambiguity in Research Reports
By
–
I observe that OpenAI potentially finds it extremely to its own advantage, to introduce hidden complications and gotchas into its research reports. Its supporters can then believe, and skeptics can call it a nothingburger, and OpenAI benefits from both.
-
OpenAI Scandal: Unfair Competitive Advantage in AI Training
By
–
Scandal at OpenAI, explained with an analogy: If you studied hard for an exam, but didn’t have access to the problems and their solutions, but someone else did, would you think it is fair to compare their results and yours? That’s what OpenAI did, in their “mindblowing”
-
OpenAI FrontierMath Access Raises Fair Competition Questions
By
–
Clarification: From what I now understand, competitors can *try* FrontierMath, but they cannot access the full problem set and their solutions. OpenAI can, and this give them a large and unfair advantage. And very much raises the question of whether OpenAI trained on those
-
Private Access to Problems Creates Unfair Competitive Advantage
By
–
the problem is that they funded private access to the problems that competitors don’t have. that’s very bad.
-

Samsung Unveils Revolutionary AI Experience at CES 2025
By
–
Samsung: Experience AI like you never have before. http://
smsng.us/4fSO9xQ #CES2025 #AI #IoT #5G @SamsungUS
