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How fast is the AI development going? This clip from 2024 is telling.
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How fast is the AI development going? This clip from 2024 is telling.

We humans are simply not as complicated as we'd like to think. We grow fond of our Roombas and get angry at Excel.

OpenAI finally releases ChatGPT-5, more people are experiencing psychosis after talking to language models, and I call for a more ambitious AI strategy in Altinget (a Norwegian policy news outlet). A lot has happened this summer, so here's a summary of the most important developments.

Is GPT-5 proof that the scaling laws have finally hit a wall? Or is OpenAI courting the mainstream?

That the models miss on niche facts about a Norwegian writer is about as surprising as Yr.no occasionally getting the weather forecast for Astana wrong.

OpenAI sets the internet on fire, Google launches the world's most powerful AI model yet, and new research shows that AI models' ability to perform tasks doubles every seven months. Here are some of the most important AI stories from March.