G. T. Karber

@sabinedoering Isn't the argument that it can't perform complex cognitive work reliably and cheaply? That they can pass tests but struggle with novel and 'real world' problems.

This debate isn’t about whether AI is “smart” in some human, philosophical sense. It’s about functional capability. If a system can perform complex cognitive work reliably and cheaply, questions about consciousness or “real understanding” miss the (economic) point.

@JimsterSeventy1 Glad you enjoyed it! (A little embarrassed to be so online that I saw this like 30 seconds after you tweeted it! I think I need to head to the spa myself...)

Picked up #MerryMurdle at the beginning of December, with the intention of doing a puzzle a day and finishing it on Christmas Day. That didn't pan out, but I did finish it today! I really enjoyed going through the story and the puzzles @gregkarber

'Combines Agatha Christie-style storytelling with interactive logic puzzles' #MerryMurdle by @gregkarber in the Observer's list of witty books. This ‍festive edition of the bestselling puzzle series contains 25 mysteries to find a missing Santa Claus 🎅 observer.co.uk/culture/books/…

'Perfect for puzzle fans and guaranteed to keep minds busy between meals' #Bordergrams by @gregkarber is one of the Daily Mail's chosen stocking fillers. Get your hands on this spy-themed word puzzle to pass the time this Christmas ✏️ dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/arti…

(A favorite joke by Shecky Greene.)

Four guys jumped him in a parking lot. When he was almost dead, Sinatra's voice rang out: "Okay boys, he's had enough."

@Bright_Star_4U @dissidentwest @DiscussingFilm The book has human corporate allies for Napoleon who allow him to deal with the human world.

@dissidentwest @DiscussingFilm . The whole point of the book was that the animals themselves ruined it.... They didn't just flip it... but rewrote the book.

First trailer for Andy Serkis’ animated adaptation of ‘ANIMAL FARM’ Starring Seth Rogen, Gaten Matarazzo, Steve Buscemi, Glenn Close, Laverne Cox, Kieran Culkin, Woody Harrelson, Jim Parsons, Kathleen Turner and Iman Vellani. In theaters on May 1, 2026

@_AashishReddy Do you really find that LLMs have stopped hallucinating?

I do not believe this anecdote. Has anyone experienced an LLM making up references that don’t exist since, say, the release of GPT-5?

@ath3na89 @brndxix Do they read the books aloud to you in STEM?

@brndxix signed up for a sociology film study as a distribution and halfway through this guy says “watch the movies on your own time” DUDE HALF OF US ARE STEM,,, WHEN???

I would’ve dropped the class the moment I read the syllabus, there’s no reason an undergrad paper should be more than 10 pages

I really love Adobe Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop. But Acrobat is forged in the fires of Hell.

@JeffPinyan This is wonderful! Maybe he’s got a future as a mystery writer!

My six-year-old loves doing Murdle logic puzzles (by @gregkarber) with my wife, and this morning he created his own!

@Srirachachau No it truly is a desperate failure every time.

Patrick was telling me that they regularly have guest stars on the show who then leave by the end of the ep, which like...at a certain point, it's clear that they just don't wanna leave the island

Get ready for some seasonal sleuthing with Deductive Logico as his Christmas is rudely interrupted by a series of fiendish murders in MERRY MURDLE, the festive new instalment in @gregkarber's mega-selling puzzle series: waterstones.com/book/merry-mur… 🎄

@NickLutsko Yup, it's gremlins time

My response to the new Gremlins 3 film

This is my favorite Murdle book since Murdle 1: 25 cases in 25 days to rescue Santa and save Christmas. Full of newly invented Christmas lore, cocktails, and more!

@hmvBelfast @HarlanCoben @ReeseW @OlivieBlake I hope you like Merry Murdle!

New Release books out today and instore now @HarlanCoben @ReeseW @OlivieBlake #vaseemkhan #Q @gregkarber #merrymurdle #books #newrleases #books #darknights #autumnreads

@Michael_Druggan @sferik Only because 3's taken. You're saying a googoobazillion is taken.

@sferik His logic is flawed. There are infinite number of even numbers but none of them are 3.

6yo: What’s the biggest number? Me: There are an infinite number of numbers so there’s no biggest one. 6yo: What’s the biggest number you know the name of? Me: A googolplex. 6yo: Which is bigger, a googolplex or a googoobazillion? Me: There’s not a number named a googoobazillion. 6yo: If there are an infinite number of numbers, there must be one named a googoobazillion. Checkmate.

@unixpickle Andy Warhol made a point about how a Coca-Cola is this.

What are some things a regular person can access, which a billionaire can't buy a much better version of. So far I've got: - Seatbelts - Toothpaste - Cellphones - Social media websites - Weather apps

@arithmoquine The comic is the replication of a mechanical pattern when a living response is expected.

i don't think i've heard of any model that can explain both knock-knock jokes, ohio rizzler, and edgy imageboard slop with the same set of rules. consider that before proposing one

endlessly amazes me that we have zero coherent models of Humor. this highly valued and often unmistakable quality of so many things ("funny") is just completely indescribable and everyone's fine with that. I imagine this must be what it was like walking around before germ theory

@deredleritt3r If it is truly reasoning, where are the new discoveries?

August 2025: Oxford and Cambridge mathematicians publish a paper entitled "No LLM Solved Yu Tsumura's 554th Problem". They gave this problem to o3 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, Claude Opus 4 (Extended Thinking) and other models, with instructions to "not perform a web search to solve the problem". No LLM could solve it. The paper smugly claims: "We show, contrary to the optimism about LLM’s problem-solving abilities, fueled by the recent gold medals that were attained, that a problem exists—Yu Tsumura’s 554th problem—that a) is within the scope of an IMO problem in terms of proof sophistication, b) is not a combinatorics problem which has caused issues for LLMs, c) requires fewer proof techniques than typical hard IMO problems, d) has a publicly available solution (likely in the training data of LLMs), and e) that cannot be readily solved by any existing off-the-shelf LLM (commercial or open-source)." (Apparently, these mathematicians didn't get the memo that the unreleased OpenAI and Google models that won gold on the IMO are significantly more powerful than the publicly available models they tested. But no matter.) October 2025: GPT-5 Pro solves Yu Tsumura's 554th problem in 15 minutes. Lee Sedol moment is coming for many.