AI megathread

[Laird]

The World Reacts to OpenAI's Unveiling of o3!

The most impressive result to me is that o3 achieved 25% on the FrontierMath problem set, which is a set of problems apparently very hard even for Fields Medalists to solve, with some requiring hours and even days. The previous record achieved by an AI was only 2%.

Here is a scientist who uses AI to count particular types of galaxies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUrOxh_0leE

I think she makes an interesting point.

David

Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

Erik Hoel

Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content

This isn’t what everyone feared, which is AI replacing humans by being better—it’s replacing them because AI is so much cheaper. Sports Illustrated was not producing human-quality level content with these methods, but it was still profitable.

Sadly, the people affected the most by generative AI are the ones who can’t defend themselves. Because they don’t even know what AI is. Yet we’ve abandoned them to swim in polluted information currents. I’m talking, unfortunately, about toddlers. Because let me introduce you to…

the hell that is AI-generated children’s YouTube content.

YouTube for kids is quickly becoming a stream of synthetic content. Much of it now consists of wooden digital characters interacting in short nonsensical clips without continuity or purpose. Toddlers are forced to sit and watch this runoff because no one is paying attention. And the toddlers themselves can’t discern that characters come and go and that the plots don’t make sense and that it’s all just incoherent dream-slop. The titles don’t match the actual content, and titles that are all the parents likely check, because they grew up in a culture where if a YouTube video said BABY LEARNING VIDEOS and had a million views it was likely okay. Now, some of the nonsense AI-generated videos aimed at toddlers have tens of millions of views.