Also bizarre that it got to the front page of HN while being so low quality :/

Well i think that is why it got there people really love hating :)

Anthropic has amazing scientists and engineers, but when it comes to results that align with the narrative of LLMs being conscious, or intelligent, or similar properties, they tend to blow the results out of proportion

Edit: In my opinion at least, maybe they would say that if models are exhibiting that stuff 20% of the time nowadays then we’re a few years away from that reaching > 50%, or some other argument that I would disagree with probably

It's their lab notes, so it's exploring a general idea, but they're also referencing previous software they've built (like crosscut)

Ads on ChatGPT as a way to extract more money from users

And I'm betting they won't be shown as a clearly marked box that says "Ad". It'll be woven directly in the response like normal content.

They are next. Perplexity's Comet browser tracks the ** out of you already because ads.

Not necessarily meaningless, but maybe relative, i.e. a person who generally replaces non-Apple laptops every X years would replace MacBooks every Y years, with Y > X

Mixture of Experts isn't using multiple models with different specialties, it's more like a sparsity technique, where you massively increase the number of parameters and use only a subset of the weights in each forward pass.

It's not a new product/model with that name, they're just saying it's an advanced version of Gemini that's not public atm

They used a text-only subset of HLE

DS9 the Star Trek series?

Yep, I even wrote in to Crawford to let him know how hard it slapped. I watched the whole thing with my brother and I'll treasure the experience forever, haha.

The fact that she's a scientist communicator doesn't imply that she only did the communication part, I think