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   Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 21:54:02 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces

   " a mind-bending tool to generate impressive AI video slop has diverted the narrative," says Steven Levy, who has learned to speak fluent AI-speak, as, indeed, is his wont

   https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-says-the-gpt-5-haters-got-it-all-wrong/

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     Jim Jones (greatbigtable@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Oct-2025 23:05:54 JST Jim Jones

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     @bruces "Altman claims that users are beginning to see it his way. “GPT-5 is the first time where people are, ‘Holy fuck. It’s doing this important piece of physics.’ Or a biologist is saying, ‘Wow, it just really helped me figure this thing out,’” he says. “There's something important happening that did not happen with any pre-GPT-5 model, which is the beginning of AI helping accelerate the rate of discovering new science.” (OpenAI hasn’t cited who those physicists or biologists are.)"