I think this is a good way to visualize the AI race over the past 3 years using the long-lived GPQA Diamond benchmark.
You can see how long OpenAI had the field to itself, the rise (and collapse) of Meta, the sudden catch-up (and then stagnation) of xAI, and the entry of open weights Chinese LLMs.
*Chinese tech commentators now have Trumpistan "AI ethics" figured out
*If there's some serious stagflation-energy shock, how many of these bet-the-farm buccaneers are gonna just plain die
*A nice era for SXSW
*"Construct your own assassination infrastructure," gee whiz, even Latvia or Lichtenstein could do this, anybody can find 500 guys
Also they're somehow "owned by the Kalashnikov gun company," how does that cover-story even make sense
*I've never heard of a 500-man spy-assassin tanks-and-missiles super-army like this, not even in a comic book
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*"DeGoogled" and European. Or, sort-of-not-Google and sort of European.
"What kind of phone is that," "oh that's my Punkt," almost worth it just to say it
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*If you have a "Software Dark Factory" where all the software is written by AIs, how do you test that software to see if it really works? #DarkFactory
*With vast armies of fake human users, of course
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*A world war *without any Europe in it" would sure be interestingly novel
*The original founders of the EEC would be finally getting their angel wings
*The European Union is pretty much nothing BUT "jurisdiction," and they're super-reluctant about expanding it
"Okay Iceland, maybe, if you absolutely insist"
*I get it about how postmodern and globalized this is, but I'm pretty sure that China "wants jurisdiction" over Taiwan just like their existent jurisdiction over Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong and big empty spreads of South China sea-bed
*Oh come on, that's close enough for slop-work and you know it
*Well, in "Agentic," you grind WITH the bots. In fact, that's pretty much the only thing that you do or CAN do.
*The self-worth thing has "the Deep Blues." You don't get to indulge that for the time being. #PivotToAgentic
*What does an undeclared World War even look like? Like a planet-sized "Special Military Operation," probably.
*So, are there battlefronts, and trenches, and territory seized, or does it just skip straight ahead to the drones, missiles and assassinations?
*The very wet Berlin Wall of the War-For-Oil
*Standard crypto-bro pivot-to-Agentic here. Note that he asserts that human crypto-bros will be overwhelmed by trading-agents, and the life of a crypto-bro won't even be technically possible. #agentic #crypto
*Probably the best thing about it is that, although you can feel your own brain corroding, you don't have to actually learn Shakespeare. #AI #brainfry #TinyShakespeare
*Well, if you're Viktor Orban, how come you can't just rob the bank
*That'll teach those pesky Ukrainians
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*Well, they probably know they'll get burned again, but maybe they'll sign up anyhow
*Does anybody get *fired faster* than AI people?? They don't even have stable job titles. #promptengineer #agentorchestrator #DOGEmilitia
*"Everything Trump Touches Dies" and his hands are all over the fossil fuel biz and the hotel-hospitality biz
*The crypto racket. Nobody has ever hurt it this much
*What does Mar-A-Lago look like after climate crisis, some weedy tycoon-chernobyl wilderness overrun by nutria and pythons
*Yeah, he just drank his own bathwater and he launched that war invade-Kyiv style, although I'm sure he could blame lesbians if he puts his mind to it
*After 842 posts, I'm the only human being following the Bluesky clawbot here, but he seems to be finding his swagger
*Why doesn't he OWN the phone? In fact why doesn't he install himself on TEN or a HUNDRED phones
*The Microsoft claw-coup d'etat, like: how about if our AI just datamines and takes over your business and does the work "for you"
*The Stanford-Ketamine Classic Five-Foot Shelf
*Collect Them All
(first editions preferred)
*I agree, but "the map is not the territory"
*"World-modelling" seems like a power-grab for more of the territory than contemporary models can manage to reduce
*It also opens the prospect of "What is it that is beyond models, and can render unto models as models render unto computers"?
Can such things be?
Probably already here. In some obscure lab, gathering dust, like neural nets in 2010 AD
*That sounds logical but it doesn't sound practical to me.
"Arabic numbers displace Roman numbers," works out well
But "Digital binary displaces all numbers" sounds super-efficient but is crazy
1. Models can model computers
2. But computers can't compute models
Therefore, models will disrupt and displace all computers
*What's the victory condition: does it "sound more" like Bruce Sterling, is it really "more like Bruce Sterling," or is it "like Bruce Sterling only much more so" #delvish
*Well, ChatGPT can certainly do that, but it's always more "dry, wired and gonzo" rather than being "more like Bruce Sterling" per se
"Here’s a more Sterling‑esque version—about 50 words leaner, with that dry, wired, gonzo‑futurist tone he loves"
