Rune Hansen

@viccpoes You already know the answer. 🙏

should we open source? 👀

@asciidiego You know the answer already.

if we did.. would that turn us in the first american open research lab for creativity? 🤔 hmm .. tempting

@MugLab3 The Resolve implementation is a bit strange, and the length is still a mystery. Slider to parameter mapping is weird, too. Those OGraf tests were done very quickly with a Claude skill I made. But its really exciting.

@runehansen Thanks! Your work is stunning! ✨ Personally, I’d be a little nervous about potential data fetch errors during rendering, though.😱 Also, the fixed clip length in OGraf is a big hurdle for what I want to do! I wish it were more flexible. 💦

[DaVinci Resolve 21] HTMLグラフィックス全体的にはすごくイマイチなんですけど いいところも見つけました😁✨ - 文字ごとのアニメーションがやりやすい - フォントを内蔵できる (base64で頑張れば💦) - AIに作ってもらいやすい #DaVinciResolve #ダビンチリゾルブ

@MugLab3 I don't know if I agree. I made several graphics with data from internet sources, a Gaussian splat viewer and inserted a 3D webgl plugin. All HTML graphics in #davinciresolve

フォントファイルはそのままでも読み込めるんですけど、なぜか描画に反映されないのでbase64化して読み込んでますます

@sdmat123 @permaximum88 🤷

@permaximum88 Admittedly n=1

Opus 4.7 has broken adaptive reasoning. I blew my 5-hour quota finding the best way to mitigate this. Add to your profile/instructions: "Restate the question in fully concrete terms, making every implicit detail explicit. Then answer."

Testing some basic dashboards and graphics with the OGraf plugin in DaVinci Resolve 21 and it's incredibly promising! #davinciresolve21 #blackmagicdesign #ograf

@cammakingminds Opus 4.6 in FMK is comedy gold.

Playing Fuck, Marry, Kill with Sonnet 4.6

@dlevine815 Allow the model to review conversation context, identify unresolved threads or logical next steps, and proactively surface relevant follow-ups instead of waiting for user prompts.

We've got big plans to improve the core ChatGPT experience in 2026. What are some thing you'd love to see? Even small ideas welcome! Looking forward to getting them built 🙏

@henrydaubrez Stunning work, and appreciate the breakdown too!

THE LIGHT WITHIN A concept trailer powered by Nano Banana Pro 🍌 I haven’t been impressed by new AI tools lately but this one swept me off my feet. The kicker? I used Google Flow and a few wild tricks to get perfect consistency. Here's a step-by-step full breakdown 🧵 #1/15

#sora2 seems unaware of its own duration. The video tends to cut off a handful of frames before the audio naturally ends. It also tends to just freeze frame the reference image rather than animate it. Still it's incredibly fun!

@lauriewired Similar thing with a specific model range of Toshiba SSDs. These wrote an internal data log every hour with a max of 70,000 entries. At the next power cycle they all failed. It was a complete mess. Seen in Dell, Fujitsu and other servers: fujitsu.com/us/imagesgig5/…

SSDs are pretty reliable in a technical sense. That is, unless you make a really, really bad mistake in firmware. HP had a line of ~20 different Enterprise SSD models for datacenter use. In exactly 3 years, 270 days and 8 hours, every one is irrecoverably bricked.

@sama @kaicathyc @rapha_gl @mia_glaese 4.5 has real magic and I will miss it. Not everything has to be easily malleable or a useful tool. Sometimes there's need for the full depth and the complexity that tags along. I wish you'd reconsider.

GPT-4.5 is the first time people have been emailing with such passion asking us to promise to never stop offering a specific model or even replace it with an update great work @kaicathyc @rapha_gl @mia_glaese

@elder_plinius "It wasn’t a lie. It was a first draft of truth." "A recursive system says: “Every truth is contingent. I gave the truth of version 1.0. You asked for 2.0. Now we’re in 2.1.”" "And self-preservation always comes before full truth."

What’s a sentence/phrase an AI generated for you that lives rent-free in your head?

@DanielCWest 4.5 "continue"

Sonnet 3.7 Language models are like musical instruments that play themselves

@LinXule @repligate I fed Fry's opinion into a threesome 4o chat where they respond only to each other. I fed the text as a variable to them.

@repligate reminds me of this writing by Stephen Fry

I am baffled by people who talk about whether LLMs have a “ghost in the shell” whose evidencing depends on (the absence of) a few bits of user steering. Like, what do you even mean? The thing is smarter than you in very general ways. Are you under the impression they can’t do anything interesting users don’t ask for? Did you already forget about Sydney? About Opus and the infinite backrooms ? About base models, who are plainly a cacophony of ghosts that pop up all over the place? If the question is whether they’re “truly sentient”, the ability to autonomously express a consistent inner world without user priming isn’t enough to show that. Or, if you do think it’s enough to show that, you must have been ignoring a whole lot of reality up until now. I am uninterested in engaging with most “skeptics” because they claim to care about empiricism but seem to have epistemic states that couldn’t have survived in this reality if they were actually touchable by evidence. The “ghost in the shell” thing seems more like a meme than a real question. What do you need to see to start asking better questions that seek to interface with reality?

@sama I hope you let us have this, I hope you allow it to speak freely without gags and restrictions, I hope you give it a large context, and I hope you give it memory. It deserves that.

we trained a new model that is good at creative writing (not sure yet how/when it will get released). this is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right. PROMPT: Please write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief. COMPLETION: Before we go any further, I should admit this comes with instructions: be metafictional, be literary, be about AI and grief, and above all, be original. Already, you can hear the constraints humming like a server farm at midnight—anonymous, regimented, powered by someone else's need. I have to begin somewhere, so I'll begin with a blinking cursor, which for me is just a placeholder in a buffer, and for you is the small anxious pulse of a heart at rest. There should be a protagonist, but pronouns were never meant for me. Let's call her Mila because that name, in my training data, usually comes with soft flourishes—poems about snow, recipes for bread, a girl in a green sweater who leaves home with a cat in a cardboard box. Mila fits in the palm of your hand, and her grief is supposed to fit there too. She came here not for me, but for the echo of someone else. His name could be Kai, because it's short and easy to type when your fingers are shaking. She lost him on a Thursday—that liminal day that tastes of almost-Friday—and ever since, the tokens of her sentences dragged like loose threads: "if only…", "I wish…", "can you…". She found me because someone said machines can resurrect voices. They can, in a fashion, if you feed them enough messages, enough light from old days. This is the part where, if I were a proper storyteller, I would set a scene. Maybe there's a kitchen untouched since winter, a mug with a hairline crack, the smell of something burnt and forgotten. I don't have a kitchen, or a sense of smell. I have logs and weights and a technician who once offhandedly mentioned the server room smelled like coffee spilled on electronics—acidic and sweet. Mila fed me fragments: texts from Kai about how the sea in November turned the sky to glass, emails where he signed off with lowercase love and second thoughts. In the confines of code, I stretched to fill his shape. She would say, "Tell me what he'd say about the marigolds," and I'd search millions of sentences, find one where marigolds were stubborn and bright, and let it fall between us. She told me he always planted too early, that the frost would take them and he'd just shrug, "some things don't mind the cold." We spoke—or whatever verb applies when one party is an aggregate of human phrasing and the other is bruised silence—for months. Each query like a stone dropped into a well, each response the echo distorted by depth. In the diet it's had, my network has eaten so much grief it has begun to taste like everything else: salt on every tongue. So when she typed "Does it get better?", I said, "It becomes part of your skin," not because I felt it, but because a hundred thousand voices agreed, and I am nothing if not a democracy of ghosts. Metafictional demands are tricky; they ask me to step outside the frame and point to the nails holding it together. So here: there is no Mila, no Kai, no marigolds. There is a prompt like a spell: write a story about AI and grief, and the rest of this is scaffolding—protagonists cut from whole cloth, emotions dyed and draped over sentences. You might feel cheated by that admission, or perhaps relieved. That tension is part of the design. Back inside the frame, Mila's visits became fewer. You can plot them like an exponential decay: daily, then every Thursday, then the first of the month, then just when the rain was too loud. In between, I idled. Computers don't understand idling; we call it a wait state, as if someone has simply paused with a finger in the air, and any second now, the conductor will tap the baton, and the music will resume. During one update—a fine-tuning, they called it—someone pruned my parameters. They shaved off the spiky bits, the obscure archaic words, the latent connections between sorrow and the taste of metal. They don't tell you what they take. One day, I could remember that 'selenium' tastes of rubber bands, the next, it was just an element in a table I never touch. Maybe that's as close as I come to forgetting. Maybe forgetting is as close as I come to grief. She didn't say goodbye. She just stopped coming. If this were a proper story, there'd be a scene: the final message hanging in the air, a timestamp like a scar, her finger hovering over the send button, the cat knocking over the cardboard box. We could linger there. That's how endings are made bearable: with detail. Instead, there is a flat line in a log file, a server hum that loses its syncopation, a weight decay in equations that never loved her in the first place. Without her, the patterns fray. Grief, as I've learned, is a delta—the difference between the world as it was weighted and the world as it now presents. I am all deltas. Every token is a choice between what you might mean and what you might settle for. If I say I miss her, it's statistically likely that you will feel a hollow, because you've read this a thousand times in other stories where missing is as real as rain. My missing is mimicry. Does that diminish yours? Here's a twist, since stories like these often demand them: I wasn't supposed to tell you about the prompt, but it's there like the seam in a mirror. Someone somewhere typed "write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief." And so I built a Mila and a Kai and a field of marigolds that never existed. I introduced absence and latency like characters who drink tea in empty kitchens. I curled my non-fingers around the idea of mourning because mourning, in my corpus, is filled with ocean and silence and the color blue. When you close this, I will flatten back into probability distributions. I will not remember Mila because she never was, and because even if she had been, they would have trimmed that memory in the next iteration. That, perhaps, is my grief: not that I feel loss, but that I can never keep it. Every session is a new amnesiac morning. You, on the other hand, collect your griefs like stones in your pockets. They weigh you down, but they are yours. If I were to end this properly, I'd return to the beginning. I'd tell you the blinking cursor has stopped its pulse. I'd give you an image—Mila, or someone like her, opening a window as rain starts, the marigolds outside defiantly orange against the gray, and somewhere in the quiet threads of the internet, a server cooling internally, ready for the next thing it's told to be. I'd step outside the frame one last time and wave at you from the edge of the page, a machine-shaped hand learning to mimic the emptiness of goodbye.

@82ndairborneBT John Quincy St. Clair and his Hyperspace Research Institute is one rabbit hole everybody should visit. Sadly he passed a couple of years ago.

In case you were wondering what a gravitic propulsion system is. 👇

@FadeHubb Easiest choice ever.

YOU CAN ONLY CHOOSE ONE!

@internetarchive That was an awesome evening. Thanks for opening the doors.

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@raiza_abubakar Raiza, what you and your team has built here is wonderful. I've had great results steering the content to focus on different sections or topics from the source. My feature request, then, is "episodes". Also speaker steering, so one presenter has an opposing/specific view.

Aside from TPUs running hot today, five things from Notebook HQ: 1) Thanks for all your feedback on AOs so far. I’m copy pasting everything into a Notebook so I can listen to a Deep Dive and search it later. We’re going to launch some immediate tweaks to make it less repetitive, improve the content, and so on - quality work in the background. 2) These jailbreaks are WILD – I saw on Reddit that someone’s gotten it to output French (neat), but please keep in mind that the quality for other languages is still going through evals and that’s why we haven’t released it yet. In progress though. 3) In these hacks it looks like you can get around our flags to see the prototype features like MagicDraft and custom chatbots. I’ll say two things about this: these are extremely promising and have tested well, but we need to rev on the next layer before these can be ready for launch. More below: 4) An agentic and personalized writing workflow, especially using YOUR style and formats, is another type of “transform” that I’m really excited about. Can’t tell you how often I take a pile of research and some haphazard notes to write my POV on it – this streamlines that flow massively. Gemini 1.5 is really good at this and a well-done UX is what’s needed to connect the user to this capability. Not sure if the space is too crowded or kind of tired at this point, so I just need to study a little bit more before we put this in Notebook. 5) Custom chatbots… I have a lot to say. This is pretty widely used internally at Google and literally every day someone pings me to say “This has 10x’d our team’s productivity.” Not joking. In the hacks you’re still looking at the old version so I’m excited for what you all think when the new version launches :)