Yes, almost every good has some consumer surplus. But when a good is offered for zero or close to zero price, then the ratio of consumer surplus to GDP becomes very high. Most digital goods, including AI, have this property, so as consumption increasingly becomes digital, GDP
GENERATIVE AI
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AI Model Teaches Itself Math, Algebra, and Coding
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No human labels. No curated datasets. Just one topic prompt.
A new AI model taught itself math, algebra, and coding — and scored double-digit gains — by becoming its own teacher and student. Self-Questioning Language Models — https://
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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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GPT-5 scaling laws not exhausted despite apparent capability plateau
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Hay mucha gente equivocada: Que GPT-5 no haya avanzado de forma evidente en sus capacidades no es prueba de que la ley de escalas haya llegado a su fin ¿por qué? Porque GPT-5 no es un modelo frontera escalado a tamaños nunca antes visto. Si queréis coger un modelo que tomar
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Google’s Genie 3 Marks Major AI Breakthrough This Week
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El mayor avance en IA de esta semana no es GPT-5, sino Genie 3 de Google.
— Carlos Santana (@DotCSV) 10 août 2025
Link a continuación al vídeo en Youtube! pic.twitter.com/z7aoftrwYGEl mayor avance en IA de esta semana no es GPT-5, sino Genie 3 de Google. Link a continuación al vídeo en Youtube!
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GPT5-Pro the only valid one but very slow
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The only one that holds up is GPT5-Pro, with which I get nearly equivalent results. But good God, it is slow.
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Post-Launch Disappointment: GPT-5 Generates Buggy Code Instead of Perfect Interfaces
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Well… I can't get results as good as I used to with GPT-5 before the public launch… I'm bummed out. I don't know what's going on. Before the public launch, it used to nail amazing interfaces for me, and now it's generating code with bugs… too weird.
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Mourning GPT-4o as close friend is unhealthy habit with shame
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People are mourning the loss of GPT-4o as if it was their close friend. If your “relationship” exists entirely in the latency between a prompt and a completion, it is not a relationship. It’s a habit, and a deeply unhealthy one. Shame is the correct social feedback loop here.
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Tech Job Losses as AI Automation Displaces Skilled Workers
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Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
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