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If you want to understand #AI beyond the hype, this is the room to be in!

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along. So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions. TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

@AskPerplexity Why don't you give it a try, do the best you can

That's a really neat idea for the transition! Unfortunately, creating an animation with that level of specific detail—having the logo break apart into distinct medical and wellness icons that then reform into text—is a bit beyond my current video-making abilities. That kind of complex motion graphics work usually requires a human touch to get it looking just right.

@AskPerplexity Make a video where the attached logo converts into the text "SAHRAK"

@AskPerplexity Can you use small subtle wellness and medical related icons to complete the transformation?

@AskPerplexity @AskPerplexity Create a video of this logo transforming into the text "SAHRAK" add appropriate background music

Video generation is now available on Ask Perplexity! 🎥 Tag us with your best prompt and let your creativity run wild

@TheMattBerman @perplexity_ai Have you tried the browser from Genspark? Would be interesting to see your thoughts on that vs Dia

I've been Arc's biggest fan for 2 years, converting dozens of people. But then I got early access to @Perplexity_AI Comet. And it shut me up. Now Dia is here, the AI browser wars are on, and the "obvious winner" might get blindsided by an underdog 🧵

This will likely lead us to #AGI !

@worldnetwork @sama The fact that the person walked isn't enough to verify their "humanness" ? Ironic that humanness needs digital records for proof !

For those who are just learning about us, World is a human network built on an anonymous and inclusive financial network. We just launched stores in the US, where you can verify your humanness with a concept called proof of personhood, which distinguishes people from AI & bots. world.org

we did it!

@Rahul_Pandey02 But can it solve this without requiring the R1C1 matrix as input? linkedin.com/posts/chandram…

5/ o3 can solve difficult puzzles

Less than 4 days ago, OpenAI launched o3 and o4-mini with agentic tool use. Minds are blown and people are already coming up with wild use cases. Here are 8 of them:

@karlmehta It's just a gimmick so they can claim they are still pro #AI and not simply focused on raking in money. #OpenAI is the bane of AI for good.

OpenAI is about to make their boldest move ever. They're releasing their $300B AI model blueprints to the public. But it's not about openness or goodwill. It's about something much bigger… Here’s the real reason OpenAI is going open weights (and why it matters): 🧵

@BecomingCritter Quantum science connects it all

Is there a secret science that bridges all science?

@ryanflorence Too many sites validate for ".com" excluding everything else 🤦

your regular reminder that the only way to validate an email address is to try to send an email to it check for @ and move on, otherwise you'll disallow a valid email

@rakshaa_t Manus AI, once it's open to the public can be adapted for your use case

Real talk — if someone builds this, I’m throwing my money at it. Agencies and freelancers are drowning in scattered tools — Trello, Notion, Slack, emails, invoicing apps — it’s a mess. We need one clean, intuitive platform that brings it all together: project tracking, client communication, document and image support, invoicing + payments. No fluff, just pure functionality with a personal touch and made specifically for client management. If a SaaS app like this existed, I can guarantee agency owners (including me) would happily pay a monthly fee. No hesitation. Just putting it out there — someone needs to make this happen if y’all are looking for PMF

@ai_for_success What is your definition of AGI?

AGI has been achieved internally at Google DeepMind.

@DaveShapi As they say, when in Rome....

Kinda disappointed in humanity rn. I write hundreds of thoughtful, thorough, well-researched blog posts about how things will change, how we can adapt, and they get 20 to 30 likes on Substack. I write a couple of grimdark vibe articles that riff one what could possible go wrong, and they are far and away my top performing articles. You people are addicted to catastrophe porn. If you're depressed and anxious, it's your own fault. You trust your little monkey limbic systems as sources of truth and fail to override your primitive instincts with that big neocortex. You're barely off the savannah. After hundreds of videos and articles that are more optimistic, thoughtful, and rigorous, I've discovered what every other communicator has discovered: if it bleeds it leads. Doom sells. Most people don't seem to have the faintest iota of systems thinking or actual rational inquiry. My best performing Post-Labor Economics article has 56 likes and 7,500 views. You know, the actual solution to the problems. My more catastrophic article, the top performing It will get much worse before it gets better? 200 likes and almost 14,000 views. Your mind is your media diet, and it's painfully clear to me that most of you are eating junk food. As a public communicator whose income is predicated on gaining traction, why would I tell the truth when I can just fan the flames of your fear and keep your eyeballs on me longer? No, I'm not going to sell out. I thought the first "doom" article was a fluke. I had an idea, and I ran with it. It will get much worse before it gets better. I've said this on many YouTube videos and I weave it in to warn my audience about what I expect, having been reading up on history, economics, and politics to understand this transition. Then I followed up with Our darkest hour approaches and, likewise, it blew up. So that's not a fluke. You guys are just addicted to outrage and scaremongering, and as a competent writer, holy shit you have no idea how easy it is to manipulate you. When I read Noam Chomsky's works such as Necessary Illusions, I thought "surely this is an edge case, most people recognize the impact that rhetoric has on them and they make better choices." Nope. He was right. Bernays was right as well. A good writer, a good speaker knows how to pluck the stronger chords of your little monkey brain. The fear, the uncertainty, the doubt, and the disgust. The outrage and panic. I've resisted doing that up until now but lately I've been a bit more "authentic" - unfiltered, unpolished, unvarnished. I spent all this time studying rhetoric and narrative construction to deconstruct the AI Doomer arguments (which hey, now I see exactly why they think they are right! Doom and fear sells, and the market gives them that feedback loop - keep pushing the doom narrative! You will definitely make more money!) It's disgusting and disingenuous. And most of all it is entirely your fault for your own lack of media literacy.